Homeroom Security School Discipline in an Age of Fear

Name: Homeroom Security School Discipline in an Age of Fear
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ISBN: 9780814748213

ISBN-10: 081474821X

ISBN-13: 9780814748213

Edition: 2012

Authors: Aaron Kupchik

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Police officers, armed security guards, surveillance cameras, and metal detectors are common features of the disturbing new landscape at many of today’s high schools. You will also find new and harsher disciplinary practices: zero-tolerance policies, random searches with drug-sniffing dogs, and mandatory suspensions, expulsions, and arrests, despite the fact that school crime and violence have been decreasing nationally for the past two decades. While most educators, students, and parents accept these harsh policing and punishment strategies based on the assumption that they keep children safe, Aaron Kupchik argues that we need to think more carefully about how we protect and punish…

Book details

List price: $30.00
Copyright year: 2012
Publisher: New York University Press
Publication date: 8/20/2012
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 274
Size: 6.00" wide x 8.80" long x 0.70" tall
Weight: 0.836
Language: English

Aaron Kupchikis associate professor in the department of sociology and criminal justice at the University of Delaware. He is the author of i Judging Juveniles: Prosecuting Adolescents in Adult and Juvenile Courts (NYU Press), winner of the 2007 American Society of Ciminology Michael J. Hindelang Award for the Most Outstanding Contribution to Research in Criminology.



Preface


Acknowledgements


Introduction: Too Much Discipline



A New Regime (with Nicole L. Bracy)



Protecting Our Children: Discipline Practices at School



A Blue Line on the Chalkboard: Police Presence in Schools (with Nicole L. Bracy)



Teaching to the Rules



Unequal Discipline


Conclusion: Undoing the Harm


Epilogue


Appendix: Research Methods and Analysis


Notes


Index


About the Author