RT Article
T1 School Safety or School Criminalization? The Typical day of A School Resource Officer in the United States
JF The British journal of criminology
VO 62
IS 3
SP 568
OP 584
A1 Higgins, Ethan M
A2 Benitez, Ivan
A2 Coffey, Brandon S
A2 Fisher, Benjamin W
A2 Swartz, Kristin
LA English
YR 2022
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/1800833490
AB School resource officers (SROs) have become increasingly common in schools in the United States and this growth of police in schools has taken place as part of a trend of school criminalization. In a school criminalization framework, scholars have focused on physical security measures and punitive outcomes for students, however, the subtler dimensions have been less explored. We draw on 26 interviews where SROs were asked to detail their typical day to investigate whether, and how, SROs criminalize school spaces through routine tasks. In spite of the multi-faceted roles of the SRO, the SROs in this study framed a typical day through a crime control logic where school spaces are criminogenic hotspots and the student body is ripe with potential offenders.
K1 school resource officer–school criminalization
K1 School crime
K1 School Safety
DO 10.1093/bjc/azab075