Friday, August 28, 2020
Heise & Nance on Reporting Student Discipline to Police
Michael Heise and Jason P. Nance (Cornell Law School and University of Florida Levin College of Law) have posted To Report or Not To Report: Data on Schools, Student Discipline, and a 'School-to-Prison Pipeline' on SSRN. Here is the abstract:
A growing “school-to-prison pipeline” literature focuses on one critical consequence flowing from public schools’ increasingly “legalized” approach towards student discipline: School reports of student disciplinary incidents to law enforcement agencies. Moreover, this literature’s recent empirical turn consistently demonstrates how increases in school resource (and/or police) officers at a school correspond with the school’s increased likelihood of reporting student disciplinary incidents to law enforcement agencies. While a second core claim—that these adverse consequences do not randomly distribute across student sub-groups and disproportionately burden especially vulnerable student groups, including racial minorities—is especially prominent in the normative literature, empirical support for it remains inconclusive, at best. The school-to-prison pipeline research literature’s understandable focus on school reporting behaviors, however, entirely ignores school decisions to not report student incidents to law enforcement agencies. This Article addresses this gap in the scholarly literature by comparing determinants of schools’ decisions to report and to not report student disciplinary matters to law enforcement agencies.
https://lawprofessors.typepad.com/crimprof_blog/2020/08/heise-nance-on-reporting-student-discipline-to-police.html