Author

Allison Ann Payne

Professor

allison.payne@villanova.edu

Articles

Youth and Society

Restorative Justice in Schools: The Influence of Race on Restorative Discipline

Schools with a greater proportional enrollment of Black students are less likely to use restorative justice techniques when responding to student misbehavior.  Introduction Many public schools rely on punitive models of student discipline, employing harsh, exclusionary punishments like detentions, suspensions, and expulsion in response to student misbehavior. Research has shown that students who receive these…

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