Examining the relationship between school performance and first arrest of adolescents

Citation

Duhaime, Lauren (2018). Examining the relationship between school performance and first arrest of adolescents.

Abstract

Growing numbers of districts employ school resource officers to patrol school hallways, often with little or no training in working with youth (ALCU, 2009). As a result, children are far more likely to be subject to school-based arrests—the majority of which are for nonviolent offenses, such as disruptive behavior—than they were a generation ago (ALCU, 2009). Measures of delinquency are vast, and this paper uses a first arrest event as a proxy measure for delinquency in the age of reliance on School-Resource Officers rather than teacher and administrators for disciplinary purposes. The effects of first arrest on school performance, measured as GPA and graduation status are examined in this paper.

URL

http://jbox.gmu.edu/xmlui/bitstream/handle/1920/11047/Duhaime_thesis_2018.pdf?sequence=1&isAllowed=y

Reference Type

Thesis/Dissertation

Book Title

Criminology, Law, and Society

Author(s)

Duhaime, Lauren

Series Author(s)

Rudes, Danielle S.

Year Published

2018

Volume Number

Publisher

George Mason University

City of Publication

Fairfax, VA

Reference ID

9306