SOC 1500 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Social Exclusion, Demography Of The United States, School Discipline

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOC 1500
• Professor: Ryan Broll

Document Summary

School-to-prison pipeline: a form of exclusion that is based on race or ethnicity, increasing contact that students have with correctional systems as a result of educational practices, educational practices lead to increased youth crime. School resource officers (sros: fully functional police officers that are assigned to a school or group of schools, number of sros in schools increased by nearly 40% between 1997 and. 2007: school discipline increasingly handled by police, not schools, i(cid:374)(cid:272)reased use of profiti(cid:374)g but, (cid:374)o shootings by black or latino youth i(cid:374) (cid:1005)(cid:1013)(cid:1013)(cid:1004)"s, result: 600% increase in juvenile court referals over a 3-year period. The (cid:862)discipline gap(cid:863: black and latino students disproportionately affected by these practices, between 1999 and 2007, the percent of white students suspended decreased, but the percent of black students suspended increased by 12, discretionary vs. Dropouts experience 8% more jail-time than those of graduates.