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The Prison School : Educational Inequality and School Discipline in the Age of Mass Incarceration /

"Police officers and metal detectors have become fixtures in American public schools. In this tough-on-crime, security-oriented era, the new gold standard for school discipline has become the criminal justice system. While harsh school punishment has reshaped schools and communities across the...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Simmons, Lizbet, 1971- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2017]
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Public schools in a punitive era
  • The at-risk youth industry
  • Under-educated and over-criminalized in New Orleans
  • The prison school.