Examining the Relationship between School Performance and First Arrest of Adolescents
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Duhaime, Lauren
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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.
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Arrest, Delinquency, GPA, Schools