Modeling The Effects Of Racial Threat On Punitive And Restorative School Discipline Practices

Criminology

Volumn 48, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 1019-1062

  Ann Payne, Allison ^a   Welch, Kelly ^a  

^a VILLANOVA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Punitiveness; Racial disparity; Racial threat; School discipline; Structural modeling

Indexed keywords

EID: 78649706277     PISSN: 00111384     EISSN: 17459125     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1745-9125.2010.00211.x     Document Type: Article

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