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Hirschfield, Paul – Sociology of Education, 2009
This article suggests that contact with the legal system increased school dropout in a Chicago sample of 4,844 inner-city students. According to multilevel multivariate logistic models, students who were first arrested during the 9th or 10th grade were six to eight times more likely than were nonarrested students ever to dropout of high school and…
Descriptors: Urban Schools, Dropouts, Juvenile Justice, Grade 9