Download or read book Redefining School Safety and Policing written by Jeffrey D. Yarbrough and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2023-08-21 with total page 233 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Redefining School Safety and Policing identifies and works to eliminate systemic issues in school policing that negatively impact students of color, LGBTQIA+ students, and other marginalized populations. Focusing on the fundamental goal of creating safe learning environments, Yarbrough lays out the unintended consequences of involving police in the administrative disciplinary process, as agents of school administrators and enforcers of zero-tolerance policies. Behavioral health support is important to students going through social, emotional, and mental health crises. True equity work brings everyone to a safe space in the middle, encouraging open discussion and courageous dialogue and aiming to create positive change. Yarbrough argues that behavioral health and racial equity are vital to transforming school policing and providing beneficial alternative solutions to school policing that do not lead students to the juvenile or criminal justice system. This book is suitable for colleges and universities, K-12 school administrators, teachers, police and school resource officers, counselors, social workers, and community activists.
Download or read book Police in Schools written by Linda Duxbury and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-09-11 with total page 528 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This co-authored book critically reviews existing literature on school resource officer (SRO) programs and presents a thorough evaluation of an SRO program offered by Peel Regional Police in Ontario, Canada. The implementation of a SRO program is a controversial response to school violence and safety issues. While some call for an increased use of police in schools, others are pushing to remove police from schools, or at least to end their involvement in routine discipline. Though many SRO programs exist around the world, little systematic research has been conducted on the topic. The study reported in this book represents the largest and most comprehensive assessment of such programs to date. The research by Duxbury and Bennell indicates that SRO programs can provide real value for students, school staff, policing organizations, and society, but benefits rely on having programs that are well-designed, that the right officers are selected for SRO roles, and that the initiative has support from major stakeholders. Given the current conversations regarding the costs and benefits of having police officers in schools, there is a clear need to determine the value that investment in these types of proactive policing programs creates. The book provides researchers, SROs, police agencies, school boards, school administrators, teachers, parents, and students with information about: the activities that SROs are involved in, how SROs can collaborate with schools to create safe learning environments, and whether (and how) such programs benefit the police, schools, students, and society. Easy-to-digest charts facilitate understanding, and anonymized reflections from SROs, school staff, and students are presented throughout the book to provide context.
Download or read book Police in the Hallways written by Kathleen Nolan and published by U of Minnesota Press. This book was released on 2011-06-30 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Exposing the deeply harmful impact of street-style policing on urban high school students
Download or read book School Safety Management written by Richard L. Glover and published by Civic Research Institute, Inc.. This book was released on 2003 with total page 39 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Policing America s Educational Systems written by John Harrison Watts and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2019-06-11 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Policing America’s Educational Systems, edited by John Harrison Watts, describes methods of policing modern educational settings, covering both K-12 public school and public or private colleges and universities. Using topical examples, subject-matter experts introduce the history of policing in elementary and high schools, the legal context governing educational institutions, and ways to assess risk and prevent or respond to crime, including active-shooter incidents. The opening section covers primary and secondary education, while the second focuses on postsecondary educational settings. A final section offers a theoretical approach to understanding campus crime and discusses the role of counseling and mental health in keeping students safe. A concluding chapter looks at the future of policing in education. Contributors bring both academic and practitioner experience to each topic covered, and useful features include learning objectives, chapter summaries, key terms, and discussion questions that further explore the issues and controversies covered in that section. This textbook is designed for courses in school or campus policing within criminal justice, social work, and sociology programs, and is also appropriate for in-service training for professionals involved in school or campus policing and safety.
Download or read book Cops on Campus written by Yalile Suriel and published by University of Washington Press. This book was released on 2024-02-06 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Over the last five years, headlines have thrust campus police departments from relative obscurity into the national spotlight. Campus constituents have called for campus police, as a tangible manifestation of the War on Crime within the sphere of higher education, to be disarmed, defunded, and abolished. Using a multidisciplinary approach that draws from the fields of history, American studies, ethnic studies, criminology, higher education, and sociology, Cops on Campus provides critical perspectives on the organization and social consequences of campus policing. Chapters uncover details of the structure and culture of university police—some of the best-funded and largest private police forces in the nation—and examine the institution in relation to racialized and gendered violence, racial profiling, and the surveillance of marginalized communities on and off campus. The volume also features interviews with students, staff, and faculty activists to showcase efforts to redefine and reimagine campus safety and explore alternatives for the future.
Download or read book Police and Youth written by Everette B. Penn and published by Routledge Series on Practical and Evidence-Based Policing. This book was released on 2021 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book brings the knowledge gained from the Teen And Police Service Academy (TAPS), which has been implemented internationally to create partnerships with at-risk teens and police, proactively addressing some of the most pressing conditions in their communities. Readers will learn about the nuances of both youth culture and police culture and will better understand the conflict stemming from race and social class. Straightforward solutions stemming from the President's Task Force on 21st Century Policing are demonstrated to provide useful strategies for communities struggling with police-youth relations. This book is especially germane to Texas schools and law enforcement, which are to comply with Community Safety Education Act of Texas. It mandates instruction for all peace officers, high school seniors, those applying for their driver's license and those required to take corrective driver instruction. Police and YOUth is ideal as a primer for students, instructors, police officers, and citizens who stand to benefit from improving police-youth relations. It provides the tools needed to educate all parties and ultimately improve relations between police and the communities they serve.
Download or read book A Web of Punishment written by Terry Allen and published by . This book was released on 2022 with total page 333 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: School policing practices disproportionately affects Black students across U.S. public schools. Less visible is the way these persistent racial inequalities have transformed the landscape of America's neighborhoods. In response to calls for policy reform, districts have clarified the roles of school police officers aimed at preventing the use of citations and arrests, namely for minor offenses of the law that would more appropriately be handled by the school administration. This dissertation examines how discipline policy reform interacts with race and geographical place to influence student arrest patterns and disciplinary infractions. Also important are the challenges that the seeming intractability of reform pose, yet with so little change in racial disparities, present to Black students and entire neighborhoods. In this dissertation, a multilevel root-cause theoretical framework is applied to clarify extant understandings of the structural conditions, political economic processes, and bioecological factors underlying racial disparities in school policing at the neighborhood level. This study reveals neighborhood contextual contradictions between school police officers' enforcement of the law (with respect to school safety) and the unique, multifaceted responsibilities of working in educational settings with students. Drawing on school police student data in the years after the reform, combined with in-depth interviews conducted with 120 Black students, this study finds that school policing of students is more often concentrated in urban neighborhoods in Los Angeles that are characterized by poverty and social disadvantage. Qualitative findings help explain these patterns by describing students' (indirect and direct) contact with school police officers' citation and arrest-driven enforcement methods, and the routine nature of school policing as counter to not only reform, but also to larger goals of building community, instilling safety, and maximizing students' academic engagement. Participation in community-based, social justice organizations helps to buffer these effects for some Black students. My analysis suggests contention within the efficacy of LASPD policy reform, framing a contest that takes place not just across a racial divide, but literally across the modernization of urban space in Los Angeles.
Download or read book Guide to Using School COP to Address Student Discipline and Crime Problems written by Tom Rich and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 106 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book School Crime and Policing written by William L. Turk and published by Prentice Hall. This book was released on 2004 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This one-of-a-kind book opens by exploring the problem of school crime in America today--stating in explicit and understandable terms the exact nature of juvenile and school crime as described in national and state statistics, and examines various methods and techniques for solving the problem. In short, anyone who reads this book will understand the reality of school crime and what to do about it. KEY TOPICS Chapter topics provide an overview of school crime in the U.S., school crime in California and Texas, how to prepare for safe schools, recommended practices for safe schools, the police response to school crime, the classroom teacher¿s and school administrator¿s perspectives on school violence, the appropriate and effective use of security technologies in schools, and school-based prevention programs that work. For public school teachers, administrators, and staff.
Download or read book Training the 21st Century Police Officer written by Russell W. Glenn and published by Rand Corporation. This book was released on 2003 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Restructure the LAPD Training Group to allow the centralization of planning; instructor qualification, evaluation, and retention; and more efficient use of resources.
Download or read book Careers in School Safety written by Keith J. Olexa and published by The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc. This book was released on 2018-12-15 with total page 82 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: School security can be a pretty tough job, it is not just about patrolling halls and checking in students for the day. Students and faculty today face a lot of potential dangers, including cyberbullying, drug use, and violence. A school resource or security officer is tasked with keeping people safe, taking action when necessary, but also simply mentoring students and helping shape school policy. This comprehensive volume takes career seekers through the ups and downs of training to take on the important job of keeping schools safe. It offers some tips on interviews and resumes and includes real-life experience from those in the field.
Download or read book The Real School Safety Problem written by Aaron Kupchik and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2016-07-12 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Schools across the U.S. look very different today than they did a generation ago. Police officers, drug-sniffing dogs, surveillance cameras, and high suspension rates have become commonplace. The Real School Safety Problem uncovers the unintended but far-reaching effects of harsh school discipline climates. Evidence shows that current school security practices may do more harm than good by broadly affecting the entire family, encouraging less civic participation in adulthood, and garnering future financial costs in the form of high rates of arrests, incarceration, and unemployment. This text presents a blueprint for reform that emphasizes problem-solving and accountability while encouraging the need to implement smarter school policies.
Download or read book 21 Pillars for Redefining Public Safety and Restoring Community Trust written by Alex Rias and published by . This book was released on 2021 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Policing in America has always been the entry into the criminal justice system. A system which has clear links to slavery, Black Codes and Jim Crows laws, now looks like police brutality and mass incarceration. For some, policing in America has never been synonymous to public safety--the bold idea that all people should feel safe in their homes and communities. The National Urban League produced its 21 Pillars for Redefining Public Safety and Restoring Community Trust ("21 Pillars") to offer a framework for advocacy that redefines public safety and restores community trust - paving a way beyond the status quo. Our forward-thinking plan is emphasized by five key themes designed to promote the protection and preservation of life, dignity, and trust, while also building safer communities. The five themes are:Collaborate with Communities to Re-Envision Public SafetyAccountability Change Divisive Policing Policies Require Transparency, Reporting and Data CollectionImprove Hiring Standards and TrainingFor too long communities around the nation, particularly Black communities, have had their lives, safety, and freedom threatened by discriminatory and violent policing. Our communities deserve to feel safe in their homes, in their cars, and on their streets, including being safe from police violence. The 21 Pillars presents a look at what is possible - a plan forward. Public safety must be re-envisioned.
Download or read book Homeroom Security written by Aaron Kupchik and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 2010-08-01 with total page 277 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Police officers, armed security guards, surveillance cameras, and metal detectors are common features of the disturbing new landscape at many of today’s high schools. You will also find new and harsher disciplinary practices: zero-tolerance policies, random searches with drug-sniffing dogs, and mandatory suspensions, expulsions, and arrests, despite the fact that school crime and violence have been decreasing nationally for the past two decades. While most educators, students, and parents accept these harsh policing and punishment strategies based on the assumption that they keep children safe, Aaron Kupchik argues that we need to think more carefully about how we protect and punish students. In Homeroom Security, Kupchik shows that these policies lead schools to prioritize the rules instead of students, so that students’ real problems—often the very reasons for their misbehavior—get ignored. Based on years of impressive field research, Kupchik demonstrates that the policies we have zealously adopted in schools across the country are the opposite of the strategies that are known to successfully reduce student misbehavior and violence. As a result, contemporary school discipline is often unhelpful, and can be hurtful to students in ways likely to make schools more violent places. Furthermore, those students who are most at-risk of problems in schools and dropping out are the ones who are most affected by these counterproductive policies. Our schools and our students can and should be safe, and Homeroom Security offers real strategies for making them so.
Download or read book Students Can Help Keep Schools Safe written by Julie Federico and published by WestBow Press. This book was released on 2014-02-18 with total page 30 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Students Can Help Keep Schools Safe is a timely book that addresses a subject we wish was non-existent. The message of this book enables children to be aware of potential danger as well as how to communicate and respond in a time of crisis. Darrell Scott, Founder and President of Rachels Challenge All schools are safe havens for students, but it is critically important for students to report threatening behavior from classmates and to take proper steps when their safety is at risk from outside intruders. This book shares some ideas on how to make school environments safer. Michael Kehoe, Chief of Police, Newtown, Connecticut While we continue to work on building a safer and more aware society, this kind of book is important. Students Can Help Keep Schools Safe begins teaching kids what is normal to see at school and what is not, and what they should do if they hear or see something that does not seem normal in the context of school safety. Laura Fronckiewicz, Moms Demand Action for Gun Sense in America, Colorado Chapter Coleader Students Can Help Keep Schools Safe is a much needed guide to promote school safety and violence prevention. This book directs students on recognizing potential danger and preparation if such an event occurs. The book offers students a pro-active approach to violence prevention. As a supplement, staff members are supported by a teachers guide for educators, and bonus student journal section. Parents and educators will appreciate the simple, nonthreatening language that creates a school safety message that every child must hear. This book has the potential to save many lives.
Download or read book The End of Policing written by Alex S. Vitale and published by Verso Books. This book was released on 2017-10-10 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The massive uprising following the police killing of George Floyd in the summer of 2020--by some estimates the largest protests in US history--thrust the argument to defund the police to the forefront of international politics. It also made The End of Policing a bestseller and Alex Vitale, its author, a leading figure in the urgent public discussion over police and racial justice. As the writer Rachel Kushner put it in an article called "Things I Can't Live Without", this book explains that "unfortunately, no increased diversity on police forces, nor body cameras, nor better training, has made any seeming difference" in reducing police killings and abuse. "We need to restructure our society and put resources into communities themselves, an argument Alex Vitale makes very persuasively." The problem, Vitale demonstrates, is policing itself-the dramatic expansion of the police role over the last forty years. Drawing on first-hand research from across the globe, The End of Policing describes how the implementation of alternatives to policing, like drug legalization, regulation, and harm reduction instead of the policing of drugs, has led to reductions in crime, spending, and injustice. This edition includes a new introduction that takes stock of the renewed movement to challenge police impunity and shows how we move forward, evaluating protest, policy, and the political situation.
