Christopher A. Mallett: The School-to-Prison Pipeline: A Comprehensive Assessment

According to the pipeline, this justies harsh punishments. According to Mallett, the State and Federal governments incorporate J Youth Adolescence (2016) 45:24752478 2477 research-based policy that would be more specialized to student needs and therefore more restorative. Furthermore, Mallet offers an interesting point: often juveniles who are arrested have committed noncriminal activities and are not very likely to reoffend. [...]formal police action may not be necessary but they can be detrimental to a childs development. According to Mallett (2016, p. 173), increased identication of youthful offenders disability-related problems over the past 20 years has coincided with a move toward a rehabilitative juvenile court [with] expanded juvenile drug and mental health courts.