Abstract In the past couple of decades, public schools in the United States have enforced increasingly punitive methods of discipline. In response to perceived elevation in juvenile crime and school violence, the Clinton Administration signed into law the Gun-Free Schools act of 1994. The act required American schools to enforce mandatory expulsions for any student found in the possession of a firearm on school property. This type of regulation, requiring a mandatory consequence for a predetermined act, is known in the educational realm as a zero tolerance policy. Since 1994, schools throughou...

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