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Tarika Daftary-Kapur

Tarika Daftary-Kapur

Senior Research Associate, Center on Youth Justice

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A Generation Later

What We've Learned About Zero Tolerance in Schools

Zero tolerance school discipline policies—mandating suspension or expulsion of students for misconduct—have gained tremendous momentum in middle and high schools since they were introduced in the late 1980s. This report looks at existing research to answer three questions: How does zero tolerance discipline affect individual students and the overa ...

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Jacob Kang-Brown, Jennifer Trone, Jennifer Fratello, Tarika Daftary-Kapur

December 11, 2013

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Making kids feel less than zero

Last week, two publications highlighting the harmful effects of zero-tolerance policies that have become increasingly prevalent in schools across the country over the past decade got a lot of media attention. Breaking Schools’ Rules, issued by the Council of State Government’s (CSG’s) Justice Center, presents findings from a longitudinal study of ...

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Reagan Daly
Tarika Daftary-Kapur

July 26, 2011

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Banning juvenile life sentences without parole is good policy

The California State Assembly recently rejected a bill that would ban sentences of life without the possibility of parole for juveniles. According to a study conducted by Amnesty International in 2005, the United States was one of four countries where juveniles are serving life sentences—Israel had seven, South Africa had four, Tanzania had one, an ...

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