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54 Howard L.J. 343 (2010-2011)
Students of the Mass Incarceration Nation

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KATAYOON MAJD*
INTRODUCTION          ................................. 344
I. THE DRIVE TO PUNISH: THE MASS
INCARCERATION OF AFRICAN-AMERICANS
AND OTHER PEOPLE OF COLOR......            ........ 351
A. The Criminal Justice System ................... 352
B. The Juvenile Justice System . ................... 356
II. SCHOOLS AS PARTNERS IN MASS
INCARCERATION: THE SURVEILLANCE,
EXCLUSION, AND CRIMINALIZATION OF
STUDENTS OF COLOR         ....................... 360
A. Zero-Tolerance Policies  ...................... 363
B. Surveillance and Arrests of Students of Color on
Campus      ................................. 366
C. The Role of Juvenile Courts in Criminalizing
Students     ................................. 369
III. PATERNALISM, DIMINISHED RIGHTS, AND THE
HYDRAULICS OF PUNISHMENT ............... 371
A. Paternalism to Justify Diminished Rights ........... 371
B. The Hydraulics of Punishment........   ......... 375
IV. THE NEGATIVE IMPACTS OF THE PUNITIVE
REGIME AT SCHOOL AND IN COURT .......... 376
A. Harms of Punitive and Exclusionary School
Policies ..   ............................... 377
B. Harms of Juvenile Court Involvement  ........... 378
C. Impact on Legal Socialization ........... ...... 379
* Criminal and Juvenile Justice Program Officer, Public Welfare Foundation. The views
expressed here are my own and should not be attributed to the Public Welfare Foundation. I
would like to thank Neelum Arya, Barbara Fedders, and Robert Kim for their very helpful
comments and suggestions on an earlier draft of this Article. I also am grateful to Derek Black
and the staff of the Howard Law Journal for their assistance.
2011 Vol. 54 No. 2

343

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