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Title: The Social Control of Childhood Behavior via Criminalization or Medicalization: Why Race Matters
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Ramey, David |
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The Social Control of Childhood Behavior via Criminalization or Medicalization: Why Race Matters Ph.D. Dissertation, Department of Sociology, The Ohio State University, 2014 Cohort(s): Children of the NLSY79, NLSY79 Young Adult Publisher: ProQuest Dissertations & Theses (PQDT) Keyword(s): Adolescent Behavior; Behavior Problems Index (BPI); Behavior, Antisocial; Children, Adjustment Problems; Crime; Delinquency/Gang Activity; Discipline; Family Size; Head Start; Health, Mental/Psychological; Home Observation for Measurement of Environment (HOME); Insurance, Health; Modeling, MIxture Models/Finite Mixture Models; 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 Progress; School Suspension/Expulsion; Self-Control/Self-Regulation Permission to reprint the abstract has not been received from the publisher. Both rates of school suspension and expulsion and the use of therapy or stimulant drugs as treatment for a growing number of behavioral problems among children have increased steadily over the past twenty-five years. Using two different nationally representative data sources, this dissertation examines how behavior problems in African American and White children, particularly young males, are differentially socially constructed along racial lines. Findings from the first paper suggest that over the previous two decades, White boys are being medicalized through the use of therapy or medication, while African-American boys are being criminalized through school suspensions and expulsions. More importantly, this disparity cannot be explained by differences in the frequency of observed misbehavior or other socioeconomic characteristics. Results from the second paper reveal that racial disparities in the labeling of childhood misbehavior significantly contribute to racial disparities in trajectories of social control throughout adolescence and young adulthood. White males use medicalization to avoid long-term involvement with the criminal justice system, while their African Americans counterparts are unable to do so. In the third paper, I find that the school-level association between racial composition and criminalized or medicalized school discipline is highly dependent on the proportion of African American students in the surrounding school district. Moreover, the moderating influence of district level racial concentration appears to work in opposite directions for punishment as opposed to medical approaches. |
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Ramey, David. The Social Control of Childhood Behavior via Criminalization or Medicalization: Why Race Matters. Ph.D. Dissertation, Department of Sociology, The Ohio State University, 2014. |