Mapping the School to Prison Pipeline in North Carolina, 1972-2016 (ICPSR 38141)
Version Date: Feb 10, 2022 View help for published
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Lucy C. Sorensen, University at Albany;
Shawn Bushway, RAND Corporation
https://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR38141.v1
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This project was centered on the apparent tension between keeping schools safe and keeping students attached to school. The project used comprehensive administrative data from the North Carolina public school system available through the North Carolina Education Research Data Center (NCERDC).
This dataset, along with juvenile court record data and publicly-available data from the North Carolina adult criminal justice system, linked administrative information from the same individuals in both school disciplinary records and the juvenile and adult criminal justice systems. The ultimate goal of this project was to determine if different policy choices by schools causally decrease rates of in-school violence in the short run and/or increase rates of conviction and incarceration in the long term.
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Access to these data is restricted. Users interested in obtaining these data must complete a Restricted Data Use Agreement, specify the reasons for the request, and obtain IRB approval or notice of exemption for their research.
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The main objective of this project is to identify if different policy choices by schools causally decrease rates of in-school violence in the short run and/or increase rates of conviction and incarceration in the long term. Another point of interest is the impact of these policies on other outcomes, including student disciplinary consequences and educational achievement and attainment.
The project aimed to descriptively explore individual trajectories within the disciplinary system of the North Carolina public school system. Additionally, it assessed the degree to which individuals in the North Carolina adult criminal justice system had prior experiences with the disciplinary system of the North Carolina public school system.
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Researchers built an individual-level longitudinal dataset by linking public school disciplinary referral records to juvenile court records and adult conviction and incarceration records.
The data in this study contain adult convictions and incarceration data between 1972 to 2016. This matching of individuals across administrative data systems was performed by the North Carolina Education research Data Center (NCERDC) using an algorithm that relies on identifying information such as name, birth date, county of birth, gender, and race/ethnicity. NCERDC then provided the deidentified individual linkages.
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Adult convictions and incarceration data between 1972 to 2016.
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Administrative record
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There are 48 variables in this data. 45 of the variables indicate whether an offender was in prison at year end from 1972 to 2016 (IP_YEAR). Other variables include birth year, race, and deidentified ID.
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2022-02-10
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2022-02-10 ICPSR data undergo a confidentiality review and are altered when necessary to limit the risk of disclosure. ICPSR also routinely creates ready-to-go data files along with setups in the major statistical software formats as well as standard codebooks to accompany the data. In addition to these procedures, ICPSR performed the following processing steps for this data collection:
- Performed consistency checks.
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