diversion keeps youth out of the justice Considerable evidence shows that young system entirely, while formal diversion black and Latino youth have disproportionate entails providing services to youth in the contact with the police, and that direct and hope of minimizing their involvement with indirect experiences with the police shape the justice system. [...] According to estimates stated schools, and that the prevalence of such on the website for the National Association youth in many high schools far exceeds the of School Resource Officers, between 14,000 arrest prevalence rates in the neighborhoods and 20,000 police officers are stationed at feeding those schools. [...] Interestingly, in only one of the jurisdictions.44 The single- 18 THE FUTURE OF CHILDREN The Role of Schools in Sustaining Juvenile Justice System Inequality jurisdiction study also examined prosecutors’ home placement versus juvenile probation.50 decision-making, and found that it was only That study, the only one that isolates the among African Americans that disciplinary impact of school discip. [...] Hirschfield A student’s school doesn’t just affect the explained by differences between black odds of suspension, arrest, or treatment and white students in the likelihood of following a legal or rule infraction; it also attending schools that draw more intensive predicts the odds that an offense will come surveillance, coupled with more pronounced to the attention of the authorities in the first. [...] 26 THE FUTURE OF CHILDREN The Role of Schools in Sustaining Juvenile Justice System Inequality Connecticut’s advocacy of targeting of DMC in Peoria County, IL, led to the particular schools and school districts is discovery that arrests of African Americans in keeping with the approach pursued by for fighting at a single high school accounted the US Department of Education’s Office for an outsize.
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