{"id":173,"date":"2006-11-10T17:17:00","date_gmt":"2006-11-10T23:17:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/pubcrim\/2006\/11\/10\/school-to-prison-pipeline\/"},"modified":"2006-11-10T17:17:00","modified_gmt":"2006-11-10T23:17:00","slug":"school-to-prison-pipeline","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/pubcrim\/2006\/11\/10\/school-to-prison-pipeline\/","title":{"rendered":"school-to-prison pipeline"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/photos1.blogger.com\/blogger\/6608\/1089\/1600\/cuffs.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/photos1.blogger.com\/blogger\/6608\/1089\/200\/cuffs.jpg\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a>the american society of criminology meetings had some provocative film sessions last week, making good use of the l.a. convention center theater. i sat in on a series of short films and trailers, thinking they might be good for classroom use. unfortunately, i had to leave early &#8212; it was pretty intense to see back-to-back-to-back docs on prison rape, kids in cages, and other atrocities.<\/p>\n<p>one film that looks terrific, though, is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=VnTgYHLu5eA\"><em>book &#8217;em: undereducated, overincarcerated<\/em><\/a> by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youthrightsmedia.org\/\">youthrightsmedia.org<\/a>. the three-minute <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=VnTgYHLu5eA\">clip<\/a> addresses a phenomenon known as the <em>school-to-prison pipeline<\/em>. i just heard the term this summer, at a racial disparities conference in minneapolis. i learned that youth of color now make up about 80% of the juveniles appearing in hennepin county court, with <em>25%<\/em> of those cases referred from schools. this doesn&#8217;t include truancy violations, either. in just the 2003-2004 school year, minneapolis schools referred 2,656 cases to the juvenile Justice system. 2,311 of these involved misdemeanors, about half for disorderly conduct.<\/p>\n<p>in minneapolis, as elsewhere, the juvenile Justice system is meting out a <em>lot <\/em>of school discipline these days. the naacp legal defense fund has compiled a useful <a href=\"http:\/\/www.naacpldf.org\/content\/pdf\/pipeline\/Dismantling_the_School_to_Prison_Pipeline.pdf\">report<\/a> on the subject, but i haven&#8217;t seen much strong empirical work on the subject in the mainstream journals. it might make for a terrific dissertation &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>the american society of criminology meetings had some provocative film sessions last week, making good use of the l.a. convention center theater. i sat in on a series of short films and trailers, thinking they might be good for classroom use. unfortunately, i had to leave early &#8212; it was pretty intense to see back-to-back-to-back [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-173","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/pubcrim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/pubcrim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/pubcrim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/pubcrim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/pubcrim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=173"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/pubcrim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/pubcrim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=173"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/pubcrim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=173"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/pubcrim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=173"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}