Rethmann, Laura (2022) Reimagining school safety through the removal of school resource officers: an abolitionist perspective. Masters thesis, Northern Arizona University.
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Abstract
This thesis identifies abolitionist strategies to reimagine student safety without the use of School Resource Officers (SROs). Using a qualitative multiple-case study research design, this research utilized in-depth, semi-structured interviews with district officials from five school districts across the United States engaged in rethinking the role of law enforcement in schools. Through these conversations, this study explores how districts are reimagining safety, security, and harm, reports the challenges districts face in developing new safety models, and sheds light on the complex relationship between school districts and law enforcement. The study uses an abolitionist lens to interpret the findings to open a broader discussion around the intersection of abolitionist theory and praxis. In doing so, this thesis highlights the salient ways in which districts’ efforts to reimagine safety provide lessons for abolitionist strategies and offer a critique of potential challenges that might arise.
Item Type: | Thesis (Masters) |
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Publisher’s Statement: | © Copyright is held by the author. Digital access to this material is made possible by the Cline Library, Northern Arizona University. Further transmission, reproduction or presentation of protected items is prohibited except with permission of the author. |
Keywords: | Abolition; Case Study; Education; School Resource Officers; School Safety; School-to-prison Pipeline |
Subjects: | L Education > LB Theory and practice of education |
NAU Depositing Author Academic Status: | Student |
Department/Unit: | Graduate College > Theses and Dissertations College of Social and Behavioral Science > Criminology and Criminal Justice |
Date Deposited: | 13 Jun 2023 17:59 |
Last Modified: | 13 Jun 2023 17:59 |
URI: | https://openknowledge.nau.edu/id/eprint/6016 |
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