Pennsylvania to study at-risk Hispanic youths – Lancaster County

“Hispanic youths comprised 9 percent of Lancaster County’s population in 2004. Why they also comprised nearly 23 percent of the youths in the county’s juvenile-justice system that year is the focus of an 18-month study announced last week by Pennsylvania Commission on Crime and Delinquency.

PCCD granted the nonprofit Philadelphia Health Management Corp. $100,000 in federal funds last week to study the disproportionate number of Hispanic youths in juvenile-justice systems in seven Pennsylvania counties. The study includes Berks, Dauphin, Lehigh, York, Philadelphia and Lancaster counties, which are home to the state’s largest Hispanic populations and show a disproportionate number of Hispanic youths in the justice system. Adams County also is included in the study to provide a rural perspective.”

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