Presumed Guilty: How Schools Criminalize Latino Youth.

Katz, Susan Roberta

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ERIC Number: EJ563499

Record Type: Journal

Publication Date: 1997

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Presumed Guilty: How Schools Criminalize Latino Youth.

Katz, Susan Roberta

Social Justice, v24 n4 p77-95 1997

Explores how schooling serves to perpetuate the social expectations that criminalize urban Latino youth, following a sample of eight junior high school students. Even more than the racism of individual teachers, institutionalized racism stereotypes these students as doomed to fail or destined to be gang members. (SLD)

Descriptors: Academic Failure, Crime, Expectation, Hispanic Americans, Junior High School Students, Junior High Schools, Juvenile Gangs, Minority Groups, Racial Discrimination, School Role, Stereotypes, Urban Schools, Urban Youth

Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Evaluative

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Language: English

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