Examining the relationship between school suspensions/expulsions and felonies

Criminal Justice Studies

Volumn 27, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 149-158

  Forsyth, Craig J ^a   Asmus, Gary ^a   Howat, Holly ^a   Pei, Lai K ^a   Forsyth, York A ^b   Stokes, Billy R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LOUISIANA AT LAFAYETTE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEW ORLEANS   (United States)

Author keywords

Adolescence Limited Offenders; Chronic offenders; delinquency; discipline problem; Life Course Persistent Offenders; suspension expulsion rate

Indexed keywords

EID: 84885566684     PISSN: 1478601X     EISSN: 14786028     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/1478601X.2013.844463     Document Type: Article

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