Title Information
Title
Restorative for All? Racial Disproportionality and School Discipline Under Restorative Justice
Name
Name Part
Miles Davison
Role
Role Term (marcrelator) (authorityURI="http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators", valueURI="http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut")
author
Name
Name Part
Andrew M. Penner
Role
Role Term (marcrelator) (authorityURI="http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators", valueURI="http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut")
author
Name
Name Part
Emily Penner
Role
Role Term (marcrelator) (authorityURI="http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators", valueURI="http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut")
author
Subject
Topic
Restorative Justice
Subject
Topic
Discipline
Subject
Topic
Racial Disproportionality
Subject (edworkp)
Topic
K-12 Education
Subject (edworkp)
Topic
Inequality
Subject (edworkp)
Topic
Program and policy effects
Subject (edworkp)
Topic
Race, ethnicity and culture
Origin Information
Date Created
2019
Publisher
Annenberg Institute for School Reform at Brown University
Abstract
The well-documented racial disparities in school discipline have led many school districts in the U.S. to adopt restorative justice practices. The restorative justice philosophy differs from traditional disciplinary action by placing an emphasis on restitution and improving behavior rather than punishment. While models of restorative justice are descriptively and theoretically promising, research on restorative practices in schools is limited. We use student-level administrative data and a difference-in-difference design to measure the changes in student discipline outcomes that occurred under restorative justice in Pacific City schools between the 2008-2017 school years. Results indicate that restorative justice practices led to an overall reduction in disciplinary action. However, results also show that restorative justice practices had differential effects between racial groups, with White students benefiting most from restorative justice. These findings suggest that while the overall effects of restorative justice are promising, these practices may unintentionally widen the racial disproportionality in school discipline they are instituted to mitigate.
Language
Language Term: Code (ISO639-2B)
eng
Type of Resource
text
Genre (aat)
grey literature
Related Item: series
Title Information
Title
edworkingpapers.com
Related Item
Identifier: DOI
10.26300/gtvs-r165
Access Condition: use and reproduction (href="http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/")
In Copyright