The Spillover Effects of Mass Incarceration in a Large Urban School District

• In Event: School Discipline and School Choice: Racial Inequities Within Neoliberal Policy Contexts

Abstract

The lives of a substantial number of United States residents are profoundly shaped by the criminal justice system. Mass incarceration is a powerful engine of social inequality that is spatially concentrated in disadvantaged communities. Although there is substantial evidence of the negative effects of being incarcerated or having a father imprisoned, there is little research on the spill-over effects created by the concentration of incarceration within poor communities of color. This study attempts to address this limitation by investigating the relationships between living in a high-incarceration neighborhood and the individual educational outcomes of children in a large urban school district in a segregated city in the Northwest.

Author

• Alexandra Aylward, New York University