The following sentence is from a GRE reading passage:
Even as the number of females processed through juvenile courts climbs steadily, an implicit consensus remains among scholars in criminal justice that male adolescents define the delinquency problem in the United States.
I don't quite understand the "that" clause in this sentence.
- What kind of clauses is this? (I'm looking for the terminology so that I can read more about it in something like Wikipedia.)
- I'm confused with this clause. I think it might be more readable if it was:
... in criminal justice that male adolescents define as the delinquency problem in the United States.
If this understanding is incorrect, should I view "male adolescents define the delinquency problem in the United States" as being in apposition to "criminal justice"?