Tuesday, March 22, 2022
Nance & Heise on Students, Threat, Race, and Police
Jason P. Nance and Michael Heise (University of Florida Levin College of Law and Cornell Law School) have posted Students, Threat, Race, and Police: An Empirical Study (50 Florida State University Law Review (forthcoming 2022)) on SSRN. Here is the abstract:
The presence of law enforcement officers in schools is more pronounced today than ever before, altering the educational experiences of students nationwide. Although the benefits of having police in schools are unclear, the legal and policy implications flowing into students’ lives are more established. Empirical studies repeatedly have documented a strong connection between regular police contact with schools and the increased rate at which school officials report students to law enforcement for committing various offenses, including lower-level offenses that arguably should be handled internally.
This Article provides the first in-depth empirical study of data spanning a decade that identifies characteristics of schools more likely to have regular contact with law enforcement.
This Article provides the first in-depth empirical study of data spanning a decade that identifies characteristics of schools more likely to have regular contact with law enforcement.
https://lawprofessors.typepad.com/crimprof_blog/2022/03/nance-heise-on-students-threat-race-and-police.html