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“Schools are more likely to criminalize problem behaviors by students of color, with subsequent greater risk for involvement with the criminal justice system, while medicalizing problem behavior by students who are White."

And my colleague David Ramey here @penn_state finds that schools are more likely to criminalize problem behaviors by students of color, with subsequent greater risk for involvement with the criminal justice system, while medicalizing problem behavior by students who are White. pic.twitter.com/sbkrUetsbr

— Paul Morgan🥋📚 (@PaulMorganPhD) September 26, 2018

The Social Structure of Criminalized and Medicalized School Discipline

Sociology of Education

Ramey, David M.

Vol. 88 Issue 3, pp. 181–201, 2015

10.1177/0038040715587114

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