Hobbling: The Effects of Proactive Policing and Mass Imprisonment on Children's Education

Posted: 27 Oct 2021

Date Written: October 2021

Abstract

Researchers have written a good deal in the last two decades about the relationship between public education and criminal justice as a pipeline by which public school practices correlate with or cause increased lifetime risk for incarceration for Black and Latinx youth. This article flips the script of the school-to-prison pipeline metaphor by reversing the question. What are the effects of criminal justice on public schooling? Reviewing recent social science research from multiple disciplines on policing and incarceration, this article describes the relationship of criminal justice to public education as hobbling, a social process by which the massification of policing and incarceration systematically compromises the ability of target demographics of American children to enjoy their rights to a free and appropriate public education.

Suggested Citation

Justice, Benjamin, Hobbling: The Effects of Proactive Policing and Mass Imprisonment on Children's Education (October 2021). Annual Review of Law and Social Science, Vol. 17, pp. 31-51, 2021, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3946938 or http://dx.doi.org/10.1146/annurev-lawsocsci-120920-084831

Benjamin Justice (Contact Author)

Rutgers University ( email )

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