The School-To-Prison Pipeline: A Comprehensive Assessment

The expanded use of zero—tolerance policies and security measures in schools has exponentially increased arrests and referrals to the juvenile courts often for typical adolescent developmental behaviors and low—level misdemeanors. This is the first truly comprehensive assessment of the "school—to—prison pipeline" a term that refers to the increased risk for certain individuals, disproportionately from minority and impoverished communities, to end up ensnared in the criminal justice system b...