{"id":280,"date":"2015-06-12T12:24:29","date_gmt":"2015-06-12T12:24:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/edsociety\/?p=280"},"modified":"2015-07-01T03:16:22","modified_gmt":"2015-07-01T03:16:22","slug":"american-high-schools-jails-or-hospitals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/edsociety\/2015\/06\/12\/american-high-schools-jails-or-hospitals\/","title":{"rendered":"American High Schools: Jails or Hospitals?"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Photo from Library of Congress via Jacobin<\/a>.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

1. What led you to do this research?<\/strong><\/p>\n

Schools criminalize behavior problems through punishments that mirror sanctions in the criminal\u00a0justice system, including suspension, expulsion, or arrest. At the same time, schools medicalize\u00a0misbehavior through the implementation of federally mandated individualized behavior plans. I am\u00a0interested in studying whether and why schools or districts are more likely to implement criminalized\u00a0or medicalized strategies for controlling misbehavior.<\/p>\n

2. What should everybody know about what you found?<\/strong><\/p>\n

I studied two criminalized (suspension\/expulsion and arrest) and two medicalized (Section 504 and\u00a0IDEA) outcomes. Schools and districts with relatively larger African-American populations had\u00a0higher rates of criminalization and lower rates of medicalization. Importantly, the relationship\u00a0between the size of the school-level African-American population and discipline varies across\u00a0different concentrations of district-level disadvantage. The positive relationship between school-level\u00a0racial composition and criminalized school discipline is less pronounced in high-disadvantage\u00a0districts. While the negative relationship between school-level racial composition and IDEA is more\u00a0pronounced in low-disadvantage districts, the negative relationship between racial composition and\u00a0enrollment in Section 504 plans is more pronounced in high-disadvantage districts. Policymakers and\u00a0scholars need to consider how schools and districts may be using their resources to implement\u00a0fundamentally different school disciplinary environments.<\/p>\n

3. What are you going to do next on this topic?<\/strong><\/p>\n

I am currently using individual-level data to test for racial disparities in criminalization versus\u00a0medicalization in a nationally-representative sample of children. Additionally, I am studying short-\u00a0and long-term consequences of punishment and medicalization. Overall, I want to know whether\u00a0medicalization may provide a \u201cbetter\u201d means of addressing problem behavior than punishment and, if\u00a0so, does this help contribute to racial disparities later in the life-course.<\/p>\n

You can read the full article here:<\/p>\n

David M.\u00a0Ramey<\/a>.\u00a0(2015). The Social Structure of Criminalized and Medicalized School Discipline<\/a>. Sociology of Education<\/a><\/i>, 0038040715587114.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

1. What led you to do this research? Schools criminalize behavior problems through punishments that mirror sanctions in the criminal\u00a0justice system, including suspension, expulsion, or arrest. At the same time, schools medicalize\u00a0misbehavior through the implementation of federally mandated individualized behavior plans. I am\u00a0interested in studying whether and why schools or districts are more likely to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1952,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35970],"tags":[2613,13,185,3069,36151,14,26937],"class_list":["post-280","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-3-questions","tag-discipline","tag-inequality","tag-life-course","tag-medicalization","tag-punitive-schooling","tag-race","tag-special-education"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/edsociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/280","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/edsociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/edsociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/edsociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1952"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/edsociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=280"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/edsociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/280\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":341,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/edsociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/280\/revisions\/341"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/edsociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=280"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/edsociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=280"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/edsociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=280"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}