The Role of Schools in Sustaining Juvenile Justice System Inequality

@article{Hirschfield2018TheRO,
  title={The Role of Schools in Sustaining Juvenile Justice System Inequality},
  author={Paul J. Hirschfield},
  journal={The Future of Children},
  year={2018},
  volume={28},
  pages={11 - 35},
  url={https://api.semanticscholar.org/CorpusID:81505504}
}
Summary:Childrens school experiences may contribute in many ways to disproportionate minority contact with the juvenile justice system, writes Paul Hirschfield. For example, research shows that black students who violate school rules are more often subject to out-of-school suspensions, which heighten their risk of arrest and increase the odds that once accused of delinquency, they'll be detained, formally processed, and institutionalized for probation violations.Hirschfield examines two types… 
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