The Impact of Police Killings on Elementary School Discipline Outcomes

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Abstract: Research exploring the impacts of police violence on local communities is a growing and emerging field, and studies have shown that local police violence can negatively affect the mental health of American citizens, especially in communities of color. Children may be uniquely vulnerable to the spillover effects of police violence, which could have implications on the trajectory of their lives. To quantify this relationship, my paper explores to what extent police killings are correlated with the incidence of exclusionary discipline at nearby schools. The analysis utilizes a two-way fixed effects regression model to estimate the relationship between a nearby police killing and five novel school disciplinary outcomes. The primary finding is that schools located in neighborhoods with a police killing episode within the last year see significantly more students disciplined with out-of-school suspensions than schools that did not experience a police killing within their attendance zone. The results of this study hold implications for future school disciplinary policy.

Author	Smith, Jira
Thesis advisor	Pearman, Alvin
Degree granting institution	Stanford University
Department	Public Policy Program

Subject	police violence, school discipline, youth, suspensions, police, education
Subject	Stanford University
Subject	Humanities and Sciences
Subject	Public Policy Program
Genre	Text
Genre	Thesis

DOI	https://doi.org/10.25740/tj788xg5427
Location	https://purl.stanford.edu/tj788xg5427

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Preferred citation: Smith, J., Pearman, A., Stanford University, and Public Policy Program (2022). The Impact of Police Killings on Elementary School Discipline Outcomes. Stanford Digital Repository. Available at https://purl.stanford.edu/tj788xg5427

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