Although, discriminatory discipline overtly plays a significant role in pushing youth particularly students of color out of the classrooms and into the pipeline, this shines a light on the fact that our public school system is failing our children regardless of race. While a faulty public school system can not foster students educational development nor prepare students to be responsible citizens who lead economically and socially productive lives. Therefore, stopping the bleeding of school-to-prison pipeline is merely a prelude to a much larger social justice challenge—the right to quality education that constructs the well-being for all.
In order to begin the process of answering the research question, I had to watch some documentary on school-to-prison-pipeline and read many scholarly articles to compare the data of the effect of children when they are placed into the criminal justice system at a very young age. My first documentary was Inside Out with Susan Modaress on School to Prison Pipeline, in 2002, there were nearly 126,000 juveniles imprisoned in youth detention facilities, nearly 500,000 juveniles are taken to detention centers every year, this does not show the juveniles who have been tried as adults (Modaress, 2014). These juveniles are being brought to detention centers for a minor offense they commit in schools, for example, talking back to the teacher, wearing
In the journal article, “School Strictness and Disproportionate Minority Contact: Investigating Racial and Ethnic Disparities With the ‘‘School-to-Prison Pipeline” talks about how in schools with higher minority ratings have more prison like features such as, security or police officers within the schools, surveillance cameras and strict disciplines that must be obtained. Policing black lives and this article both share the same ideas on the topic of how minorities are treated in the educational system. The article explains
Inequalities have always existed in society. These inequalities are often perpetuated through education. While the United States Supreme Court supported desegregation of schools and struck down the idea of “separate, but equal” in the 1954 Brown v. Board of Education cases, there still exists many inequalities within the United States educational system today for minority races and people of the lower economic classes. Ann Ferguson in her article “Bad Boys” discusses punishment practices in schools and the detriment these practices provide as they resemble incarceration. Conley in his article “Education” discusses education acting as a sorting machine and the tracking of students.
Through personal narratives and extensive research, Morris demonstrates how harmful stereotypes and biases held by educators and administrators contribute to the criminalization of Black girls, perpetuating a cycle of inequality and reinforcing racial disparities. The book underscores the importance of examining biases and adopting alternative approaches, such as restorative justice and healing, to create supportive educational environments that uplift Black girls. From a criminological perspective, the book could have delved deeper into strain, labeling, and social control theories to provide a more comprehensive understanding of the factors contributing to the criminalization of Black girls. The criminalization of Black girls in schools has far-reaching consequences for their academic success and prospects, undermining their mental and emotional well-being and eroding their self-worth. Comprehensive reforms prioritizing equity, inclusivity, and the creation of supportive educational environments are necessary to address this issue.
In the essay, Reflection From a Life Behind Bars: Build Colleges, Not Prisons, the author James Gilligan was a director of mental health for the Massachusetts prison system, and he argues that prisons should be torn down and become boarding schools for the inmates to receive as much education as they want. He explains how kids who experience violence, grow up as violent adults, and he questioned why we continue to use violence against adults hoping it stops them from being violent. There’s evidence that the most successful programs for preventing recidivism are ones where inmates receive college degrees. The prisons are also extremely inhumane in the environment, as Gilligan compares them to zoos. All these reasons Gilligan gives for his argument
the fact that black males are more likely to be incarcerated we can conclude that African American families have a higher risk of being in poverty. Moreover, this leads to their children attending underfunded schools where they receive far less than an equal education. It is morally wrong that the value of you education should depend on your zip code, something you have limited to no control over. As claimed in Ta Nehisi’s “The Case for Reparations,” America will never be whole again until the wrong morals of the past and present are confronted. Indeed, a viable claim.
Education is one of the few ways out of poverty, prison, and the only way to attain sustainable success, but not if its unequal for a child to receive or the different penalty that go along with being in school as black schoolboy/girl. A lot of favorite athletes and even top rappers was channel in the school-prison pipeline such as Curtis James Jackson, III was a piece of data in the concept. Curtis James Jackson, III, better known by his stage name 50 Cents, a 12-year-old boy at the time of his actions, is a suitable case to investigate. Using his case and past his story and experience involving juvenile delinquency and how it impacted the school system, the contributions to the crime behind it such as drug offenses, the crime of carrying an armed gun in his school, and how the school system and juvenile justice system bough such a punitive punishment to Curtis. Curtis story transformed and share his experience to let other youth in his shoes learn from it, also as Asante did with his juvenile years changing and trying to impact black youngsters.
The School-to-Prison Pipeline: A Primer for Social Workers, a study by Susan McCarter (2017), was written to give a summary of the School-to-prison pipeline in an attempt to break down the factors surrounding children being funneled into this path by their respective school systems around the country. The author explains the correlation between the School-to-prison pipeline and its disparate outcomes for students of color, students with disabilities, and students who identify as lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, and questioning (p. 54-55). McCarter presents implications for social workers and multiple specific strategies to reduce the detrimental effects of the School-to-prison pipeline. Susan McCarter, PhD, MSW, is an associate professor
The literature review clearly has shown that there is a phenomenon called School to Prison, Schoolhouse to Jailhouse, or Public Education to Prison Pipeline. Therefore, Jeremy Thompson (2016) says, “Zero-tolerance policies in schools result in high suspension rates and expulsion rates among students in general, but disproportionately affect minority students, especially African-Americans because students who have been suspended or expelled are more likely than not to end up in the Criminal Justice
In 2009, almost 45 percent of Latina females under five years old were enrolled in school while only 39 percent of Latino males were enrolled. When third grade comes around boys tend to be more than a year behind than girls in writing and reading skills. This shows that there is a serious problem within the education system because it isn’t right for males to be that far behind of what school districts want the kids to be taught. It gets even worse, boys that are colored are at a higher chance of experiencing great differences in consequences and punishments such as suspension and expulsion (Sáenz and Ponjuán, 2012). It saddens me to know that we live in the year 2015 and we still see people experience racism and inequality just because the color of his or her
Racial bias has long since plagued our country. Ever since our country was founded, there was a divide among our citizens. When the first pilgrims landed in America, African-American were unwillingly enslaved and were stripped basic human rights and seen as property.. The possession of slaves and slave trade has been abolished and America is a diverse melting pot of culture, yet racial bias and discrimination still influences us today. Today African Americans are still being marginalized in our prisons and courts and the outcome is not good.
Research Paper In today’s culture, there have been many reasons why people go to prison. A few reasons why people go to prison is economic purposes, pride, and affiliations. After many people are freed from jail, more than half of ex-inmates return for another period of time which is called recidivism. According to dictionary.com the definition of recidivism is “repeated or habitual relapse, as into crime”.
The topic of zero tolerance rings a bell in the political world when it comes to racial injustice. Research shows that black students are 2.6 times as likely to be suspended as White students (Teske). This social injustice for students of color does not get any easier with zero tolerance polices. If anything, zero tolerance causes more racial discrimination and injustice.
A research article written by Jeffery J Shook, an Associate Professor and Doctoral Program Director of Sociology at University of Pittsburgh, provides a detailed analysis of the policy and practices that allow an easy transfer of youth into adult courts. The study examines the delinquent behavior of youth as viewed by the society and the nature of transfer policy and how it has impacted juveniles since its creation. Shook looks into the race and ethnicity of juveniles and reveals that juveniles of color experience the consequences of transfer the most. As stated in the article by Shook (2005), “these disparities are justified by the assertion that children of color commit a disproportionate amount of violent and serious juvenile crime” (pg.
However, with diversity comes inequalities that people of color face throughout their lives. A particular issue in the United States, specifically in education, is unequal opportunities and treatment in regard to race. Research shows that students from single-parent black families had a high chance of dropping out and participating in illicit behavior (Hallinan 54). While the issue of race is a complicated issue to breach for