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Title: Racial and Ethnic Differences in the Consequences of School Suspension for Arrest
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Fisher, Benjamin W. Widdowson, Alex O. |
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Racial and Ethnic Differences in the Consequences of School Suspension for Arrest Criminology 61 3 (11 August 2023): 622-653. Also: https://doi.org/10.1111/1745-9125.12344 Cohort(s): NLSY97 Publisher: American Society of Criminology Keyword(s): Arrests; Black Studies; Critical Race Theory; Ethnic Differences; Ethnic Groups; Ethnic Studies; Hispanic Studies; Labeled Students; Labeling Theory; Racial Differences; Racial Equality/Inequality; Racial Studies; School Suspension/Expulsion; Schooling Permission to reprint the abstract has not been received from the publisher. A growing body of literature has demonstrated that when schools suspend students, the suspension acts not as a deterrent but as an amplifier of future punishment. Labeling theory has emerged as the predominant explanation for this phenomenon, suggesting that the symbolic label conferred along with a suspension shapes how other people perceive and respond to labeled students. Few studies, however, have attended to racial/ethnic differences in this process even though critical race theory suggests the consequences of suspension likely differ across racial/ethnic groups due to prevailing racial/ethnic stereotypes. This study uses six waves of data from the National Longitudinal Study of Youth 1997 (N = 8,634) to examine how the relationship between suspension and subsequent arrest differs for White, Black, and Hispanic students. Using a series of within-person analyses that control for time-stable personal characteristics, this study finds that suspension amplifies Black and Hispanic students' risk of arrest relative to that of White students. White students' risk of arrest was not amplified by suspension and, in some models, was diminished. This study's findings underscore the importance of understanding the labeling process as different by race/ethnicity and indicate that suspension is particularly harmful for Black and Hispanic relative to White students. |
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Fisher, Benjamin W. and Alex O. Widdowson. "Racial and Ethnic Differences in the Consequences of School Suspension for Arrest." Criminology 61 3 (11 August 2023): 622-653.
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