ABSTRACT
This chapter examines the concept of the school-to-prison pipeline. It examines key theoretical insights into what has been conceived of as the growing convergence between schools and the legal system. It gives attention to the policing and monitoring of students in US educational institutions, and how this then transfers marginalized youth populations into the juvenile and adult criminal justice systems. The chapter explores what and who the contributors to this are, including harsh disciplinary practices and a police presence in schools; the moral panics resulting from media constructions of youth; the policing of communities of colour; and racialization and the impact of zero-tolerance policies in the neoliberal context.
