... a means of creating a safer school environment. By 1993, zero tolerance policies made their way into schools across the United States (Skiba & Peterson, 1999). In this setting, the policies were defined as "a school or district policy that mandates predetermined consequences or punishments for specific offenses" (Kang-Brown et al., 2011). In 1994, as a response to this widespread ... these asserted claims remain unsubstantiated by sufficient statistical evidence. The enactment of Zero-Tolerance Policies was primarily influenced by strong assumptions about the climate of adolescent violen...

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