This book highlights the intimate connection between racial/ethnic equity and school and community safety, the consequences of current inequities, and establishes the way forward in terms of future research, policy, and practice.
This book highlights the intimate connection between racial/ethnic equity and school and community safety, the consequences of current inequities, and establishes the way forward in terms of future research, policy, and practice.
School safety has taken on increased urgency as the United States educational systems, families, and students grapple with the residual effects of a public health pandemic that kept students out of classrooms and away from critical supportive services. It is increasingly important to center the investigation, understanding, and policy implementations that highlight the correlates, root causes, and consequences of racial/ethnic inequality in the pursuit of school safety. This book addresses a range of aspects impacting racial/ethnic equity and school safety, all of which is being shaped by a growing population of diverse youth. The chapters in this volume touch on family, schools, neighborhoods, and communities; however, common to all of these chapters is an understanding of the challenges, barriers, consequences, and importance of connecting minoritized students to provide opportunities and protection. Thus, each of these chapters takes care to identify points for intervention, suggestions for policy, and promising directions for future research. Each study featured in this book stands out for its original and noteworthy contribution to the literature on the significance of race/ethnicity in regard to school safety research. Future research should further expand our understanding of equity, school safety, and justice for one of the fastest growing segments of the population racial/ethnic minority youth. The growing number of racial/ethnic minority youth present both a challenge and an opportunity for increasingly diverse societies, communities, and schools.
This book was originally published as a special issue of Journal of School Violence.
Introduction to Racial/Ethnic Equity and School Safety
1. The Role of
Social Emotional Competencies in Student Discipline and Discipline
Disparities
2. Connections Between the Racial/Ethnic Make-Up of the Student
Body and School Safety Personnel Use
3. Feelings of Safety and Belonging in
High School for Asian American Students
4. Violence and Erasure: The
Conspicuous Absence of Native Children in Research on School Discipline
Disparities
5. Aint nobody about to trap me: The Violence of Multi-System
Collusion and Entrapment for Incarcerated Disabled Girls of Color
6. Did it
get better? The Realities of Queer and Trans Youth of Color in K-12 Schools
7. Are Schools Stricter at the Border? Investigating the Relationships
between School Strictness, Juvenile Justice, and the Border
8. Creating a
Process for Equitable Action to Prevent School and Community Violence
9.
Commentary About Racial/Ethnic Equity and School Safety
Anthony A. Peguero is Foundation Professor in the T. Denny Sanford School of Social and Family Dynamics and the School of Criminology and Sociology at Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, United States.
Patricia Campie is Principal Researcher at American Institutes for Research, Arlington, VA, United States.
Maury Nation is the Robert Innes Chair, and Professor of Human and Organizational Development in the Peabody College of Education at Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN, United States.
