Document Type
Article
Publication Title
Addressing Violence in the U.S. Public School System
Abstract
School resource officers (SRO) have been involved in the American school system for about 70 years. SRO programs began in the early 1950s beginning within a school district in Flint, Michigan. Since the start of SRO programs, police officers were predominately placed in schools with a high percentage of African American students and in low-income communities. School administration had implemented a program to station law enforcement officers in the school because of crime, drugs, and violence within the school. The community in the Flint School District had a lot of racial discrimination and elevated levels of racial inequality and segregation. As school administrators and community leaders in this era often blamed minority youth for juvenile delinquency and school-related security issues they pushed for law enforcement to combat these problems.
First Page
94
Last Page
114
DOI
10.4018/978-1-6684-8271-1.ch005
Publication Date
2023
ISBN
9781668482711
Recommended Citation
Brown, Angelo Kevin, "School Resource Officers' Impact on Violence and Crime" (2023). Faculty Publications. 4.
https://arch.astate.edu/clac-scrim-facpub/4
