System Failure: Policy and Practice in the School-to-Prison Pipeline

Name: System Failure: Policy and Practice in the School-to-Prison Pipeline
Brand: Taylor & Francis

Taylor & Francis

System Failure: Policy and Practice in the School-to-Prison PipelineAuthor(s): Patricia Burch\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd, United Kingdom\nImprint: Routledge\nISBN-13: 9780367366179, 978-0367366179\nSynopsis\nSYSTEM FAILURE provides a framework for understanding the ways in which education policy across organizational settings contributes to the school-to-prison pipeline, as documented in the literature and as observed by authors in empirical studies of justice-involved youth in regular public schools, juvenile court schools, probation settings, and alternative schools. Burch and contributors argue that education policy fails low-income justice-involved youth in three major ways: maintaining silence around issues of structural racism and civil rights, marginalizing youth voice and culture and language, focusing on schools or the criminal justice system, and overlooking intermediate settings including the role of for-profit and not-for-profit education comp.