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  • Suspended Education

    School Punishment and the Legacy of Racial Injustice

    by Aaron Kupchik ...
    How the historic resistance to racial desegregation in schools led to the over-punishment of students todayEvery year, millions of public school students are suspended. This overused punishment removes students from the classroom, but it does not improve their behavior. Instead, suspension disrupts their education, harming the students, their families, and their schools. Black students suffer most ... Read more

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  • Homeroom Security

    School Discipline in an Age of Fear

    by Aaron Kupchik ...
    Series Book 6 - Youth, Crime, and Justice
    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 ... Read more

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  • Criminal Courts

    by Aaron Kupchik ...
    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: (1) the macro-level involving external economic, political and social forces (Joachim J. Savelsberg; Raymond Michalowski; Mary E. Vogel; John Hagan and Ron Levi); (2) the meso-level consisting of formal structures, ... Read more

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  • The Real School Safety Problem

    The Long-Term Consequences of Harsh School Punishment

    by Aaron Kupchik ...
    Schools across the U.S. look very different today than they did a generation ago. Police officers, drug-sniffing dogs, surveillance cameras, and high suspension rates have become commonplace. The Real School Safety Problem uncovers the unintended but far-reaching effects of harsh school discipline climates. Evidence shows that current school security practices may do more harm than good by broadly ... Read more

    $28.49 USD

  • The Palgrave International Handbook of School Discipline, Surveillance, and Social Control

    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 and control their behavior. Bringing together leading scholars from a range of disciplinary backgrounds, the chapters scrutinize, analyze and compare schools' practices across the ... Read more

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  • Judging Juveniles

    Prosecuting Adolescents in Adult and Juvenile Courts

    by Aaron Kupchik ...
    Series Book 5 - New Perspectives in Crime, Deviance, and Law
    2007 Ruth Shonle Cavan Young Scholar Award presented by the American Society of Criminology2007 American Society of Criminology Michael J. Hindelang Award for the Most Outstanding Contribution to Research in CriminologyBy comparing how adolescents are prosecuted and punished in juvenile and criminal (adult) courts, Aaron Kupchik finds that prosecuting adolescents in criminal court does not fit ... Read more

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  • Audiobook

    Suspended Education

    School Punishment and the Legacy of Racial Injustice

    by Aaron Kupchik ...
    Narrated by Jonathan Sleep ...

    Unabridged

    8 hours 9 min

    Every year, millions of public school students are suspended. This overused punishment removes students from the classroom, but it does not improve their behavior. Instead, suspension disrupts their education, harming the students, their families, and their schools. Black students suffer most within this broken system, experiencing a far greater risk of school punishment and the significant harms ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

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