Enduring Punitiveness: The Relationship between Death Sentences and School Suspensions

• In Event: Punitive Practices in Education: Correlates of School Discipline

Abstract

Existing scholarship has highlighted a host of factors, both at the individual- and aggregate-levels, that are associated with school punishment. Less attention, however, has been devoted to the possibility that punitiveness in schools may be a product of the punitive environments in which they are located. To explore this empirically, the current project examines the potential relationship between death sentences and school suspensions. Findings suggest that a culture of punitiveness can become embedded in a place, and as a result, manifest across the institutions within that place.

Author

• Cresean Hughes, University of Delaware