ABSTRACT

This article explores the relationship between school exclusion and youth crime and considers what criminological research can add to our understanding. The article first explores the history of the ways in which the criminological implications of school exclusion have been conceptualised, including the link between exclusion and young people’s offending, and the so-called ‘school-to-prison pipeline’. There is a long history of work in the UK and the US that explores how processes of school exclusion contribute to youth crime, the trajectory from the label of ‘troublemaker’ to more serious deviance, and how disciplinary polices can themselves lead to criminalisation. As we show, the relationship is complex and establishing causality is difficult. We then consider more recent work on how school exclusion contributes to the vulnerability and exploitation of marginalised young people. Finally, we argue for understanding young people’s lives, their educational experiences, and their involvement in offending, holistically and ‘in the round’, taking account of all their relationships and activities and employing contextual approaches to addressing these problems.

摘要

本文探讨了学校排斥与青少年犯罪之间的关系，并考虑了犯罪学研究可以增加我们的理解。本文首先探讨了对学校排斥的犯罪学含义进行概念化的方法的历史，包括排斥和年轻人的犯罪行为之间的联系，以及所谓的“学校到监狱的管道”。在英国和美国，有悠久的工作历史探讨了学校排斥的过程如何助长了青少年犯罪，从“麻烦制造者”的标签到更严重的偏差的轨迹，以及纪律警察自身如何将其定为犯罪。正如我们所展示的，这种关系是复杂的，建立因果关系是困难的。然后，我们考虑关于学校排斥如何导致边缘化年轻人的脆弱性和剥削的最新工作。最后，我们主张理解年轻人的生活，他们的教育经历以及他们整体上和“全面地”参与犯罪的过程，同时考虑到他们的所有关系和活动，并采用情境方法来解决这些问题。