Maximum Security The Culture of Violence in Inner-City Schools

Name: Maximum Security The Culture of Violence in Inner-City Schools
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ISBN: 9780226143873

ISBN-10: 0226143872

ISBN-13: 9780226143873

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Authors: John Devine

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Escalations in student violence continue throughout the nation, but inner-city schools are the hardest hit, with classrooms and corridors infected by the anger, aggression, and criminality endemic to street life. Technological surveillance, security personnel, and paramilitary control tactics to maintain order and safety are the common administrative response. Essential educational programs are routinely slashed from school budgets, even as the number of guards, cameras, and metal detectors continues to multiply.Based on years of frontline experience in New York's inner-city schools, Maximum Security demonstrates that such policing strategies are not only ineffectual, they divorce students…

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List price: $25.00
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Publication date: 1/1/1997
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 296
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.25" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 0.880
Language: English



Acknowledgments


Introduction



Schools or "Schools"? Competing Discourses on Violence



Tutors, Mentors, Ethnographers



Foucault, Security Guards, and Indocile Bodies



Teachers and the "Marshmallow Effect"



Pedagogical Theory and the Mind/Body Duality



Violence: The Latest Curricular Specialty



"Youth's Youthfulness": An Alternate View



Remythologizing Inner-City Schooling Epilogue: A Jesuitical Fantasy


Notes


Bibliography


Index