The policing paradox: Police stops predict youth's school disengagement via elevated psychological distress.

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_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 add

SUBMITTER: Del Toro J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9465843 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature