Effects of school resource officers on school crime and responses to school crime
Effects of school resource officers on school crime and responses to school crime
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DOI：
10.1111/1745-9133.12512
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发表时间：
2020-07-22
影响因子：
4.6
通讯作者：
Greene, Angela D.
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作者：
Gottfredson, Denise C.;Crosse, Scott;Greene, Angela D.
研究摘要我们研究了增加学校资源官员（SRO）的工作人员对学校的影响，在33所公立学校的样本，通过司法部的面向社区的警务服务招聘计划和匹配的72所学校，没有增加SRO人员在同一时间的资金，加强SRO人员。在纵向分析的每月校级行政数据，我们比较了治疗和比较学校的违纪行为和行动。我们发现，增加SRO增加了与毒品和武器有关的犯罪和排除性纪律处分的治疗学校相对于比较学校的数量。这些负面影响在没有特殊需要的学生中更为常见。政策含义-研究结果表明，增加SRO并没有改善学校安全，并通过增加排斥反应，以学校纪律事件，它增加了学校纪律的刑事化。我们建议，寻求加强学校安全的教育决策者考虑许多替代方案，要求定期在学校的警察存在的方案。
Research Summary We examined the effects of an increase in school resource officer (SRO) staffing on schools in a sample of 33 public schools that enhanced SRO staffing through funding from the Department of Justice's Community Oriented Policing Services Hiring Program and a matched sample of 72 schools that did not increase SRO staffing at the same time. In longitudinal analyses of monthly school-level administrative data, we compared the treatment and comparison schools on disciplinary offenses and actions. We found that increased SROs increased the number of drug- and weapon-related offenses and exclusionary disciplinary actions for treatment schools relative to comparison schools. These negative effects were more frequently found for students without special needs. Policy Implications The study findings suggest that increasing SROs does not improve school safety and that by increasing exclusionary responses to school discipline incidents it increases the criminalization of school discipline. We recommend that educational decision-makers seeking to enhance school safety consider the many alternatives to programs that require regular police presence in schools.