The Commission for Racial Equality and the Economic and Social ResearchCouncil are providing 250,000 for the study.
The intention is that the research will build on a smaller study for theYouth Justice Board that discovered significant differences in the wayWhite, Black, Asian and mixed-parentage teenagers were handled by thejuvenile justice system.
Rebecca Fairbairn, science manager at the Economic and Social ResearchCouncil, said: "We want to go beyond the earlier research and look fromthe beginning to the end of the young persons involved in thesystem."
University research teams or independent research institutions are beingsought to conduct the study, which must be finished by October 2008.Those interested in bidding for the funding need to submit theirproposals for the research by 29 June.
The Youth Justice Board is supporting the study.
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