Punishment Begets Punishment: How Death Penalty Sanctions are Associated with School Discipline

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Abstract

Existing scholarship has highlighted how a host of factors, at the individual- and aggregate-levels, 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 discipline. 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