TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2010//
TI  - Circumventing the Law: Students’ Rights in Schools With Police
JO  - Journal of contemporary criminal justice
A1  - Bracy, Nicole L.
SP  - 294
EP  - 315
VL  - 26
IS  - 3
N2  - Over the past several decades, public schools in the United States have been increasingly transformed into high security environments, complete with surveillance technologies, security forces, and harsh punishments. The school resource officer (SRO) program, which assigns uniformed police officers to work in public schools, is one significant component of this new brand of school security. Although the intentions of the SRO program are clear—to help administrators maintain order in schools, deter students from committing criminal acts, and arrest students who do break the law—the potential unintended consequences of this program are largely unknown. This study employs ethnographic methodology in two public high schools with SROs to examine how students’ rights, including Fourth Amendment rights, Fifth Amendment rights, and privacy rights, are negotiated in public schools with full-time police presence. The results of this study suggest that schools administrators and SROs partner in ways that compromise and reduce the legal rights of students.<p />
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SN  - 1043-9862
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1043986210368645
ID  - ref1
ER  -