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disproportionate minority contact and confinement  

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  • Disproportionate minority contact is the unequal involvement and participation of minorities with agents of the criminal justice system such as police officers, judges, and probation officers. Disproportionate minority confinement is the unbalanced incapacitation of minorities in secure detention facilities, jails, and prisons. [Source: Encyclopedia of Race and Crime; Disproportionate Minority Contact and Confinement]

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