Examining the Relationship between School Performance and First Arrest of Adolescents
| dc.contributor.advisor | Rudes, Danielle S | |
| dc.contributor.author | Duhaime, Lauren | |
| dc.creator | Duhaime, Lauren | |
| dc.date | 2018-04-23 | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2018-07-02T13:38:23Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2018-07-02T13:38:23Z | |
| dc.description.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. | |
| dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/1920/11047 | |
| dc.language.iso | en | |
| dc.subject | Arrest | |
| dc.subject | Delinquency | |
| dc.subject | GPA | |
| dc.subject | Schools | |
| dc.title | Examining the Relationship between School Performance and First Arrest of Adolescents | |
| dc.type | Thesis | |
| thesis.degree.discipline | Criminology, Law and Society | |
| thesis.degree.grantor | George Mason University | |
| thesis.degree.level | Master's | |
| thesis.degree.name | Master of Arts in Criminology, Law and Society |