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en-wikipedia-org-1753		Incarceration in the United States - Wikipedia			.html	text/html	26947	3142	64	The national suspension rate doubled from 3.7% to 7.4% from 1973 to 2010.[131] The claim that Zero Tolerance Policies affect students of color at a disproportionate rate is supported in the Code of Maryland Regulations study, that found Black students were suspended at more than double the rate of white students.[132] This data is further backed by Moriah Balingit, who states that when compared to white students, Black students are suspended and expelled at greater rates according to the Civil Rights Data Collection, that has records with specific information for the 2015-2016 school year of about 96,000 schools.[133] In addition, further data shows that although Black students only accounted for 15% of the student population, they represented a 31% of the arrests.[133] Hispanic children share this in common with their Black counterparts, as they too are more susceptible to harsher discipline like suspension and expulsion.[134] This trend can be seen throughout numerous studies of this type of material and particularly in the south.[135][136] Furthermore, between 1985 and 1989, there was an increase in referrals of minority youth to juvenile court, petitioned cases, adjudicated delinquency cases, and delinquency cases placed outside the home.[137] During this time period, the number of African American youth detained increased by 9% and the number of Hispanic youths detained increased by 4%, yet the proportion of White youth declined by 13%.[136] Documentation of this phenomenon can be seen as early as 1975 with the book School Suspensions: Are they helping children?[138] Additionally, as punitive action leads to dropout rates, so does imprisonment.	./cache/en-wikipedia-org-1753.html	./txt/en-wikipedia-org-1753.txt