Intro
This short video provides a brief introduction to the school-to-prison pipeline and how surveillance and policing systems in schools harm Black youth:
Find Books
The school-to-prison pipeline : a comprehensive assessment by Location: Available OnlinePublication Date: 2016The only text to fully address the causes, impact, and solutions to the school-to-prison pipeline.
The School-To-Prison Pipeline by Location: Available OnlinePublication Date: 2016This book offers a research and comparison-driven look at the school-to-prison pipeline, its racial dynamics, the connections to mass incarceration, and our flawed educational climate--and suggests practical remedies for change.
"Policing Black Bodies" by Location: Available OnlinePublication Date: 2017The policing of Black bodies goes far beyond these individual stories of brutality. They connect the regulation of African American people in many settings, including the public education system and the criminal justice system, into a powerful narrative about the myriad ways Black bodies are policed.
Caught Up by Location: Available OnlinePublication Date: 2016From home, to school, to juvenile detention center, and back again. Follow the lives of fifty Latina girls living forty miles outside of Los Angeles, California, as they are inadvertently caught up in the school-to-prison pipeline.
Understanding, dismantling, and disrupting the prison-to-school pipeline by Location: Available OnlinePublication Date: 2017This volume examines the interconnected concepts of punitive school discipline and early introduction to the criminal justice system.
Find Articles
The following is a selection of articles available through BU Libraries:
- "White Teachers’ Role in Sustaining the School-to-Prison Pipeline: Recommendations for Teacher Education" by Nathaniel Bryan (2017). Available here.
- "Exploring the School-to-Prison Pipeline: How School Suspensions Influence Incarceration During Young Adulthood" by Paul Hemez et. al (2020). Available here.
- "The Dangers of Pipeline Thinking: How the School-To-Prison Pipeline Metaphor Squeezes Out Complexity" by Ken McGrew (2016). Available here.
- "Ring the Alarm: Black Girls in the Discourse on the School-to-Prison Pipeline" by Jelisa S. Clark (2020). Available here.
- "'Our Stories Are Powerful': The Use of Youth Storytelling in Policy Advocacy to Combat the School-to-Prison Pipeline" by Jeffrey Moyer et. al (2020). Available here.
- "Can restorative justice disrupt the ‘school-to-prison pipeline?" by Mara Schiff (2018). Available here.
External resources:
- ACLU: "The Consequences of Police in Schools: A North Carolina Case Study"
- American Bar Association: "School-to-Prison Pipeline Statistics" (2023)
- ACLU: Schools Without Police are Better Schools (2021)
- Commission on Civil Rights: Examining School Discipline Policies and Connections to the School-to-Prison Pipeline for Students of Color with Disabilities (2019).
- Capital B News: "How This Democrat Wants to Dismantle the School-to-Prison Pipeline" (2023)
- The Sentencing Project: "Back-to-School Action Guide: Re-Engaging Students and Closing the School-to-Prison Pipeline" (2021)
Resource Spotlight
Citizens for Juvenile Justice has a School-to-Prison Pipeline reports and factsheets which include:
