Abstract

This study used violent victimization data from the National Crime Victimization Survey (1994–2018) to examine whether criminal justice interventions (i.e. reporting to the police and arrest) for youth-perpetrated violence were more likely to occur in school than outside school. On average, violence at school was 8.4 percentage points less likely than violence outside school to be reported to the police, but if there was a police report, violence in school was 8.0 percentage points more likely to involve an arrest. These statistical differences remained stable throughout the study period. Further analyses of the pooled sample by the offender’s gender and race found that school violence was associated with an increased likelihood of arrest only for Black youth, not White youth, and only for boys, not girls. Implications of these results for the school-to-prison pipeline argument are discussed.

摘要

本研究使用来自全国犯罪受害调查（1994-2018 年）的暴力受害数据来检验针对青少年实施的暴力行为的刑事司法干预（即向警方报告和逮捕）是否更可能发生在学校而不是校外。平均而言，校内暴力事件向警方报告的可能性比校外暴力事件少 8.4 个百分点，但如果有警方报告，学校暴力事件涉及逮捕的可能性要高 8.0 个百分点。这些统计差异在整个研究期间保持稳定。按犯罪者的性别和种族对汇总样本的进一步分析发现，校园暴力仅与黑人青年而非白人青年被捕的可能性增加有关，而且仅与男孩而非女孩有关。