1. Zero Tolerance Policies and Adolescent Development
... schools with crime and other measures while controlling for environmental and demographic factors. After collecting extensive data from 1,234 public schools in the United States, the analysis showed that the focus on adolescent violence was not as well founded as people thought. Relative to all issues of school discipline, violent infractions made up for just a small fraction of incidents reported by ... and evaluations have been made across a number of states to provide recommendations for the movement away from zero tolerance. A variety of publications support the implementation of ev...
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