Suspended Education: School Punishment and the Legacy of Racial Injustice

＂Suspended Education helps explain why schools turn to punishments like suspensions so often, despite being ineffective and even harmful; this problem is a legacy of resistance to racial desegregation of schools during the Civil Rights Era＂--

Aaron Kupchik is Professor of Sociology and Criminal Justice at the University of Delaware. He is the author of many books including Homeroom Security: School Discipline in an Age of Fear and The Real School Safety Problem: The Long-Term Consequences of Harsh School Punishment. His book Judging Juveniles: Prosecuting Adolescents in Adult and Juvenile Courts won the 2007 American Society of Criminology Michael J. Hindelang Award for the Most Outstanding Contribution to Research in Criminology.