This paper reviews evidence of the school-to-prison pipeline, a confluence of two child-and
adolescent-caring systems—schools and juvenile courts—that simultaneously shifted over …

Universal, school-based programs, intended to prevent violent behavior, have been used at
all grade levels from pre-kindergarten through high school. These programs may be …

As police officers have become increasingly common in US public schools, their role in
school discipline has often expanded. While there is growing public debate about the …

There can be no question that schools need sound disciplinary systems to maintain school
safety and promote student learning. Indeed, in the face ofmultiple-victim homicides in the …

Cyberbullying victims fear that parents or other authority figures will remove their technology,
the means by which victimisation is occurring. To understand the importance of studying …

Schools today are more frequently using punitive discipline practices to control student
behavior, despite the greater effectiveness of community-building techniques on compliance …

As historians of crime and violence have largely come to agree, urban life in the past was
more rather than less violent. Imprisonment rates in the United States fluctuated within a …

In this study we examined authoritative discipline theory, which posits that 2 complementary
aspects of school climate—structure and support—are important for adolescents' safety in …

Although there is increasing awareness of the overrepresentation of ethic minority students—
particularly Black students—in disciplinary actions, the extant research has rarely empirically …

Tests of the racial threat hypothesis, linking the racial composition of place to various
measures of social control, find that where there are greater percentages of blacks, more …