School suspension and the school-to-prison pipeline

被引:62
作者
Cuellar, Alison Evans [1 ,3 ]
Markowitz, Sara [2 ,3 ]
机构
[1] George Mason Univ, Northeast Module 1, Fairfax, VA 22030 USA
[2] Emory Univ, Dept Econ, Atlanta, GA 30322 USA
[3] NBER, Cambridge, MA 02138 USA
关键词
School discipline; Crime; Juveniles; DISCIPLINE; CRIME;
D O I
10.1016/j.irle.2015.06.001
中图分类号
F [经济];
学科分类号
02 ;
摘要
Schools have many available strategies to address problem behavior among students. One option increasingly used by schools is to suspend problem youth and remove them for defined periods. The purpose of this paper is to investigate whether this type of disciplinary policy has unintended consequences by giving problem youth greater opportunity to commit crimes outside of school. Previous studies have looked at the "incapacitation" effect of school holidays and teacher strike days, but these studies do not directly address the relevant school policy decisions. The current study relies on administrative data from a school district and a juvenile justice system. The results indicate that out-of-school suspension may increase criminal offending behavior by problem youth, more than doubling the probability of arrest. The effect is particularly large among African American youth, relative to Whites. (C) 2015 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
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页码:98 / 106
页数:9
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