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Title: School Discipline and Delinquency: Suspension, Arrest, and Incarceration in the NLSY97
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Shollenberger, Tracey L. |
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School Discipline and Delinquency: Suspension, Arrest, and Incarceration in the NLSY97 Presented: Chicago IL, American Society of Criminology Annual Meeting, 2012 Cohort(s): NLSY97 Publisher: American Society of Criminology Keyword(s): Arrests; Delinquency/Gang Activity; Educational Outcomes; Incarceration/Jail; School Suspension/Expulsion Permission to reprint the abstract has not been received from the publisher. Academics and youth advocates alike have described a “school-to-prison pipeline” through which youth who experience difficulty in school are more likely than their peers to experience arrest and incarceration. While the negative association between educational achievement and juvenile/criminal justice sanctions is nothing new, recent shifts in educational policy and practice have heightened the need for criminologists to focus explicitly on schooling as a process with features that can influence delinquency and crime. In particular, the expanded use of exclusionary school discipline in recent decades warrants further investigation. In this paper, I focus on out-of-school suspension, which has become the taken-for-granted approach to addressing serious student misbehavior in many U.S. schools. Using data from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 1997, I examine careers of suspension among nationally representative samples of white, black, and Hispanic youth, following their educational and criminal justice outcomes through age 28. After examining disparities in prevalence and intensity of punishment across racial and ethnic groups, I compare punishment to self-reported behavior, examining how careers of delinquency unfold over time for suspended and non-suspended youth. Among other issues, I investigate whether suspension represents a “snare” (Moffitt 1993) that interferes with educational attainment and the desistance process. |
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Shollenberger, Tracey L. "School Discipline and Delinquency: Suspension, Arrest, and Incarceration in the NLSY97." Presented: Chicago IL, American Society of Criminology Annual Meeting, 2012. |