1. Zero Tolerance Policies and Adolescent Development
Abstract In the past couple of decades, public schools in the United States have enforced increasingly punitive methods of discipline. ... The act required American schools to enforce mandatory expulsions for any student found in the possession of a firearm on school property. ... During the 1980's, the United States saw an increase in drug use and drug related crime throughout the country. ... This era, known as the War on Drugs, introduced zero-tolerance policies as a measure of combating this crime wave that so many feared. ... As these policies expanded in schools, controversy grew ar...
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