School closures significantly reduced arrests of black and latinx urban youth.

ABSTRACT:

Background & methods

Youth of color are surveilled and arrested by police at higher rates than their White peers, contributing to racial inequities across the life course and in population health. Previous research points to schools as an increasingly relevant site for youth criminalization, but existing studies emphasize within-school mechanisms, with limited analysis of policing in surrounding school areas. To fill this gap, we study changes in police arrests of youth after initial COVID-19 school closures in 2020 across four US cities overall and in relation to public school locations. We analyze geocoded arrest records and use interrupted time series negative binomial regression models with city and month fixed effects to estimate change in weekly arrest rates among White, Blac

SUBMITTER: Simes JT 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10370768 | biostudies-literature | 2023

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature