Educational Disenfranchisement and Adjudication: The Case of Formerly Incarcerated Young Men

• In Event: 69.057 - Roundtable Session 32
  In Roundtable Session: 69.057-6 - Justice and the Justice System?

Abstract

This paper presentation examines the relationship between K-12 schooling and incarceration within the experiences and from the perspectives of twenty educationally disenfranchised and previously incarcerated low-income young men in a low-income, urban community. The presenters show how conditions within participants’ high school, community, and families interact in ways that contribute to their eventual imprisonment. They argue for framing of the role of schools in the incarceration of young people in a way that is more nuanced than the common characterization of the “school-to-prison pipeline,” which depicts a direct conduit from schools, as the problem, and prison, as the outcome. Implications for partnerships between schools, families, and communities, to reduce youth incarceration, are given.

Authors

• Tara Marie Brown, University of Maryland - College Park

• Daniel Vivas, University of Maryland - College Park

• Jesus Santos, Brandeis University