| Autor: |
Beattie, Irenee R., Arum, Richard, Roksa, Josipa |
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Conference Papers - American Sociological Association; 2004 Annual Meeting, San Francisco, p1-20, 20p, 5 Graphs |
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Zero tolerance school discipline policies throughout the 1990s sought to re-establish order in schools rife with violence, weapons, and drugs. Also in the 1990s, disabled youth gained expanded rights to a guaranteed free public education. The conflicting logic between rationalization/centralization of organizational rules (zero tolerance) and expanded individual freedom (student rights) opened a new arena for legal contestation. We advance the concept of a ?court climate? to understand the external pressures educational institutions face as they attempt to adopt rational rules for discipline. We analyze 1,976 state and federal appellate court cases involving student/school conflicts over school discipline. Results suggest that policy changes in the 1990s preceded an upsurge of school discipline lawsuits not seen since the early 1970s, perhaps due to increased uncertainty over appropriate school discipline. Subsequent multivariate analyses will establish how courts mediated the conflict between rationalization and rights and the implications for educational institutions and other organizations. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR] |
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