The Policing Paradox: Police Stops Predict Youth's School Disengagement via Elevated Psychological Distress

Autor/inn/en	Del Toro, Juan; Jackson, Dylan B.; Wang, Ming-Te
Titel	The Policing Paradox: Police Stops Predict Youth's School Disengagement via Elevated Psychological Distress
Quelle	In: Developmental Psychology, 58 (2022) 7, S.1402-1412 (11 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Zusatzinformation	ORCID (Del Toro, Juan)
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0012-1649
DOI	10.1037/dev0001361
Schlagwörter	Adolescents; Police; Predictor Variables; Learner Engagement; Student School Relationship; Stress Variables; Racial Differences; Ethnicity; Psychological Patterns; Law Enforcement; Correlation; Middle School Students; High School Students; Anxiety; Individual Characteristics; Incidence + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Adolescent; Adolescence; Adoleszenz; Jugend; Jugendalter; Jugendlicher; Prädiktor; Schüler-Lehrer-Beziehung; Rassenunterschied; Ethnizität; Gesetzesvollzug; Korrelation; Middle school; Middle schools; Student; Students; Mittelschule; Mittelstufenschule; Schüler; Schülerin; High school; High schools; Oberschule; Studentin; Angst; Personality characteristic; Personality traits; Persönlichkeitsmerkmal; Vorkommen
Abstract	Negative interactions with the legal system can inform adolescents' relationships with schools. The present daily-diary study examined 13,545 daily survey assessments from 387 adolescents (M[subscript age] = 13-14; 40% male; 32% Black, 50% White, and 18% Other ethnic-racial minority) across 35 days to assess whether police stops predicted adolescents' school disengagement through their psychological distress as a mediator. Results showed that 9% of youth experienced at least one police stop, and 66 stops occurred in total over the 35-day study course. Youth stopped by the police reported greater next-day school disengagement, and youth's psychological distress mediated the link between police stops and school disengagement. Disengagement did not predict youth's next-day police stops. In addition, ethnic-racial minority youth reported more negative police encounters than did White youth, and the effect of a police stop on next-day psychological distress was more negative for Other ethnic-racial minority youth. Implications for reducing police intervention in adolescents' lives are discussed. (As Provided).
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Update	2024/1/01