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Evaluating Police Presence and Police Stops in Schools: Outcomes for Adolescent Mental Health

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dc.contributorCasper, Deborah
dc.contributorHopson, Laura
dc.contributor.advisorWeymouth, Bridget B.
dc.contributor.authorCarroll, CarRenzie Ann
dc.contributor.otherUniversity of Alabama Tuscaloosa
dc.date.accessioned2022-09-28T14:55:27Z
dc.date.available2022-09-28T14:55:27Z
dc.date.issued2022
dc.descriptionElectronic Thesis or Dissertationen_US
dc.description.abstractPolice and school partnerships have grown exponentially over the past 20 years. However, research examining the impact of school policing has primarily focused on aspects of school safety. The current study extends the literature beyond feelings of safety to consider the mental health outcomes of school policing on adolescents. I examine whether the presence, being stopped, and witnessing stops by police at school are associated with adolescent depression and anxiety symptoms and how school connectedness and race/ethnicity moderate these associations. Data were obtained from the most recent wave of data collection in the Fragile Families and Child Well-Being Study (FFCWS). Participants included 3,346 youth who were, on average, 15 years old. OLS regression analyses were repeated for depression and anxiety symptoms separately and included main effects for each contextual variable. Results indicated that police presence in schools was not significantly associated with depression and anxiety symptoms. In comparison, across all models, being stopped by police and witnessing police stops at school were significantly associated with depression and anxiety symptoms. Simple slope analyses of significant interactions revealed that race/ethnicity moderated associations between police presence, police stops, witnessing police stops at school, and adverse mental health outcomes. Additionally, greater reports of school connectedness moderated associations between being stopped by police at school and depression symptoms.en_US
dc.format.mediumelectronic
dc.format.mimetypeapplication/pdf
dc.identifier.otherhttp://purl.lib.ua.edu/186553
dc.identifier.otheru0015_0000001_0004512
dc.identifier.otherCarroll_alatus_0004M_14917
dc.identifier.urihttps://ir.ua.edu/handle/123456789/9539
dc.languageEnglish
dc.language.isoen_US
dc.publisherUniversity of Alabama Libraries
dc.relation.hasversionborn digital
dc.relation.ispartofThe University of Alabama Electronic Theses and Dissertations
dc.relation.ispartofThe University of Alabama Libraries Digital Collections
dc.rightsAll rights reserved by the author unless otherwise indicated.en_US
dc.subjectAdolescent mental health
dc.subjectPolice in schools
dc.subjectRacial disparities
dc.subjectSchool connectedness
dc.subjectStressors
dc.titleEvaluating Police Presence and Police Stops in Schools: Outcomes for Adolescent Mental Healthen_US
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etdms.degree.departmentUniversity of Alabama. Department of Human Development and Family Studies
etdms.degree.disciplineSocial sciences education
etdms.degree.grantorThe University of Alabama
etdms.degree.levelmaster's
etdms.degree.nameM.S.

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