About DMC

Access information about disproportionate minority contact (DMC). Learn about legislation that mandates States to make efforts to reduce DMC.

Tools

Access the DMC Technical Assistance Manual, DMC Reduction Best Practices Database, DMC Web-Based Data Entry System, and other useful tools.

Resources

Disproportionate Minority Contact in the Juvenile Justice System: A Study of Differential Minority Arrest/Referral to Court in Three Cities (2007)
Prepared by the OJJDP-funded Program of Research on the Causes and Correlates of Delinquency, the report “Disproportionate Minority Contact in the Justice System: A Study of Differential Minority Arrest/Referral to Court in Three Cities” draws on information from delinquency studies in Pittsburgh, PA, Rochester, NY, and Seattle, WA, to examine disproportionate minority contact and factors that might affect it at the police contact and court referral levels.

OJJDP's National Training and Technical Assistance Center provides training and technical assistance to states and localities to reduce DMC.

Publications

Reducing Disproportionate Minority Contact: Preparation at the Local Level
Describes strategies that States and communities can use to reduce disproportionate minority contact with the juvenile justice system. This bulletin is a companion to the latest edition of OJJDP's Disproportionate Minority Contact Technical Assistance Manual. It includes useful "how to" information drawn from the manual and presents important background on the context in which local preparation takes place-media coverage and public attitudes about crime, race, and youth.

Disproportionate Minority Confinement: 2002 Update
Describes developments in addressing disproportionate minority confinement (DMC) at the national, state, and local levels. This OJJDP Summary begins with a brief review of the most recent data, followed by an outline of national efforts by OJJDP and others during the past 5 years to address the challenge of DMC. It then presents an update of state activities, including a status report on state compliance with the DMC core requirement, highlights form state DMC assessment research and intervention initiatives, and an outline of remaining challenges. The Summary concludes with a look at the implications of the Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention Act's broadening of DMC to encompass disproportionate minority contact.

Disproportionate Minority Confinement: A Review of the Research Literature From 1989 Through 2001
The purpose of this 2002 OJJDP Bulletin is to extend earlier analysis by examining research found in professional academic journals and edited books during the 12-year period. Conference papers or presentations are excluded from the current review, as are unpublished State studies or plans, except when portions of these may have formed the basis for a journal publication.

Contacts

Find contact information for each State's Juvenile Justice Specialist and, if applicable, its State and Local DMC Coordinators and Subcommittee Chairs.

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