Hiding in Plain Sight: Black Female Risk for Exclusionary Discipline Over Time

• In Event: 31.091 - Roundtable Session 10
  In Roundtable Session: 31.091-22 - African American at Risk

Abstract

Black males have traditionally been the focus of studies highlighting the discrepancies in school discipline practices regarding race while Black females are typically only used to emphasize the inflation of Black male discipline experiences in descriptive statistics. The purpose of this study is to expand the current literature concerning exclusionary discipline of Black girls and subsequent contact with the juvenile justice system. The results of this study conclude that girls of color experience higher rates of discipline than White girls and boys. Specifically, Black girls have a probability of 0.69 of being disciplined by the twelfth grade, which is higher than White boys (0.65), White girls (0.49), and Hispanic girls (0.49).

Authors

• Jamilia Blake, Texas A&M University

• Miner P. Marchbanks

• Travis Wedeking, Texas A&M University - College Station

• Danielle Smith, Texas A&M University

• Allison Seibert