School Discipline, Law Enforcement, And Student Outcomes
Journal: ScholarlyCommons (University of Pennsylvania)
Year: 2016

Zero tolerance discipline policies have lost favor in recent years due to concerns that they reduce offending students’ classroom time, beget further misconduct, and decrease student engagement. In the same vein, school police programs often associated with zero tolerance policies are frequently charged with increasing student involvement in the criminal justice system. Despite much discourse on the topic of school discipline, few studies have rigorously examined causal links between zero tolera