The Relationship Between Disciplinary Actions and the School-to-Prison Pipeline: Impact on Minority Dropout Rates

The Relationship Between Disciplinary Actions and the School-to-Prison Pipeline: Impact on Minority Dropout Rates

Presenter(s)

James Quinn

Comments

9:00-10:15, Kennedy Union Ballroom

Description

The school to prison pipeline is one of the biggest problems in the United States that is sending youth minority out of school and into jail instead. It largely weighs against young minority school students. One of the major problems in the school to prison pipeline is the dropout rate of youth minority students. This project will look into the effects of dropping out and what behaviors both in and outside the school were like. Schools have contributed to making minor violations into big problems which increase the rates at which minority students are being pushed out of school and into the juvenile justice system. This research aims to investigate the disciplinary practices impacting minority students like dropout rates and how they contribute to the school to prison pipeline. Some variables focus on whether suspension and expulsion has similar effects on whites and nonwhites, controlling for behavioral history, family structure, substance abuse, gang involvement, academic performance, and friends criminal involvement, and other variables. In the end, this study will help show the importance of changing these policies to more promote equal and fair disciplinary actions and to further reduce the long term consequences for marginalized students.

Publication Date

4-23-2025

Project Designation

Capstone Project

Primary Advisor

Mark A. Morgan

Primary Advisor's Department

Criminal Justice and Security Studies

Keywords

Stander Symposium, College of Arts and Sciences

The Relationship Between Disciplinary Actions and the School-to-Prison Pipeline: Impact on Minority Dropout Rates

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