RT Article
T1 Exploring the school-to-prison pipeline: how school suspensions influence incarceration during young adulthood
JF Youth violence and juvenile justice
VO 18
IS 3
SP 235
OP 255
A1 Hemez, Paul
A1 Brent, John J.
A1 Mowen, Thomas J.
LA English
YR 2020
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/1816495174
AB A growing body of research has evoked the life-course perspective to understand how experiences in school relate to a wide range of longer term life outcomes. This is perhaps best typified by the notion of the school-to-prison pipeline which refers to a process by which youth who experience punitive punishment in schools are increasingly enmeshed within the criminal justice system. While this metaphor is commonly accepted, few studies have examined the extent to which exclusionary school discipline significantly alters pathways toward incarceration as youth transition into young adulthood. Applying a life-course perspective and leveraging 15 waves of data from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 1997, this study examines how school suspensions influence the odds of imprisonment during young adulthood. Mixed-effects longitudinal models demonstrate that receiving a suspension serves as a key turning point toward increased odds of incarceration, even after accounting for key covariates including levels of criminal offending. However, results show that repeated suspensions do not appear to confer additional risk of incarceration. Results carry implications for the ways in which school punishment impacts youths’ life-course.
NO First published 31 October, 2019
K1 Suspendierung
K1 Festnahme
K1 Lebenslauf
K1 Jugend
K1 school-to-prison
K1 Suspension
K1 Incarceration
K1 Youth
K1 Life-course
DO 10.1177/1541204019880945