Assessing the impact of race on the juvenile waiver decision: A systematic review and meta-analysis

Our findings suggest a nuanced and exceedingly complicated story about the role of race in waiver decisions. Most directly, the positive but nonsignificant average effect of race should raise doubts that race impacts waiver decisions in a direct fashion. However, simple claims that race does not matter are also not supported by existing knowledge. The nature of the review facilitates the development of specific recommendations for future research.