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Aaron Kupchik
How the historic resistance to racial desegregation in schools led to the over-punishment of students today
Every year, millions of public school students are suspended. This overused punishment removes students…
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The social organization of criminal courts is the theme of this collection of articles
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The social organization of criminal courts is the theme of this collection of articles. The volume provides contributions to three levels of social organization in criminal courts. :
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By comparing how adolescents are prosecuted and punished in juvenile and criminal courts, this work finds that prosecuting adolescents in criminal court does not fit with out cultural understandings of…
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Police officers, armed security guards, surveillance cameras, and metal detectors are common features of the disturbing landscape at many of the high schools. This title shows that these policies lead…
How police officers in schools are making them less safe
Schools across the US look very different today than they did a generation ago. Police officers, drug-sniffing dogs, surveillance cameras, and high suspension rates have become commonplace. This book presents…
Truly international in scope, this Handbook focuses on approaches to discipline, surveillance and social control from around the world, critically examining the strategies and practices schools employ to monitor students…
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Surveillance is not simply about monitoring or tracking individuals and their data - it is about the structuring of power relations through human, technical, or hybrid control mechanisms. This title…
