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Title: Punitive versus Medicalized Responses to Childhood Behavior Problems and Well-Being in Young Adulthood
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Ramey, David |
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Punitive versus Medicalized Responses to Childhood Behavior Problems and Well-Being in Young Adulthood Presented: San Diego CA, Population Association of America Annual Meeting, April-May 2015 Cohort(s): Children of the NLSY79, NLSY79 Young Adult Publisher: Population Association of America Keyword(s): Adolescent Behavior; Behavior Problems Index (BPI); Behavior, Antisocial; Children, Adjustment Problems; Crime; Delinquency/Gang Activity; Grade Point Average (GPA)/Grades; Head Start; Health, Mental/Psychological; High School Completion/Graduates; Peabody Individual Achievement Test (PIAT- Math); Peabody Individual Achievement Test (PIAT- Reading); Psychological Effects; Racial Differences; Regions; Risk-Taking; Rosenberg Self-Esteem Scale (RSES) (see Self-Esteem); School Suspension/Expulsion; Self-Control/Self-Regulation Permission to reprint the abstract has not been received from the publisher. Scholars have documented two contemporary trends involving misbehavior in public schools in the United States - a growing reliance on suspension and expulsion as punishment and medicalization, or the use of medical diagnoses and treatment. Despite these trends, we know little about how punishment and medicalization influence long-term social and economic well-being. W are unclear about how the social construction of child behavior contributes to involvement in the school to prison pipeline, a process in which children with behavior problems are pushed out of school and into crime and incarceration. This paper begins to consider the relationship between childhood social control and school performance within the context of the school to prison pipeline. I argue that school punishment may push kids out of school and potentially into the criminal justice system. On the other hand, medicalizing behavior problems may keep kids in school and out of the criminal justice system. |
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Ramey, David. "Punitive versus Medicalized Responses to Childhood Behavior Problems and Well-Being in Young Adulthood." Presented: San Diego CA, Population Association of America Annual Meeting, April-May 2015. |