School to Prison Pipeline: The Role of Relationship Quality in School Suspension and Expulsion and Adult Criminality

Citation

Gilbert, Blake Mitchell (2019). School to Prison Pipeline: The Role of Relationship Quality in School Suspension and Expulsion and Adult Criminality.

Abstract

The school to prison pipeline has been a growing problem for youth in the United States since the inception of zero-tolerance policies in schools in the early 1990s. With suspension and expulsion rates increasing since this time, the consequences of these discipline tactics have become clear. Those students who experience suspensions and expulsions have a higher likelihood of school dropout, being unemployed, and incarcerated as adults (Owen, Wettach, & Hoffman, 2015). The research on the school to prison pipeline is focused primarily on school-related variables that influence the outcomes of the students who have been suspended or expelled. The current study expanded this research to look at factors inside and outside of the school system, specifically the relationships within an adolescent’s life that may influence their outcomes if they are suspended or expelled from school. This study posits that certain relationships, such as the quality of relationship with one’s mother, female friends, and teachers, attenuate the link between suspension and expulsion and future adult criminality. Other relationships, such as male friends and the quality of relationship with one’s father, increase the strength of the link between suspension/expulsion and future adult criminality.

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Keyword(s)

Delinquency

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Reference Type

Thesis/Dissertation

Author(s)

Gilbert, Blake Mitchell

Series Author(s)

Ormerod, Alayne J.

Year Published

2019

Volume Number

22618609

Pages

106

Publisher

Fielding Graduate University

City of Publication

Ann Arbor

ISSN/ISBN

9781085672641

DOI

9781085672641

Reference ID

6729