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The Prison School: Educational Inequality and School Discipline in the Age of Mass Incarceration
Lizbet Simmons
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Description for The Prison School: Educational Inequality and School Discipline in the Age of Mass Incarceration
Hardback. Public schools across the nation have turned to the criminal justice system as a gold standard of discipline. This book shows how schools and prisons became so intertwined. It tells what this mean for students, communities, and a democratic society? Num Pages: 216 pages, 4 b&w line illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JFFJ; JKVP; JNF; JNK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 12. Weight in Grams: 462.
Public schools across the nation have turned to the criminal justice system as a gold standard of discipline. As public schools and offices of justice have become collaborators in punishment, rates of African American suspension and expulsion have soared, drop out rates have accelerated, and prison populations have exploded. Nowhere, perhaps, has the War on Crime been more influential in broadening racialized academic and socioeconomic disparity than in New Orleans, Louisiana, where in 2002 the criminal sheriff opened his own public school at the Orleans Parish Prison. "The Prison School," as locals called it, enrolled low-income African American boys who ... Read more
Public schools across the nation have turned to the criminal justice system as a gold standard of discipline. As public schools and offices of justice have become collaborators in punishment, rates of African American suspension and expulsion have soared, drop out rates have accelerated, and prison populations have exploded. Nowhere, perhaps, has the War on Crime been more influential in broadening racialized academic and socioeconomic disparity than in New Orleans, Louisiana, where in 2002 the criminal sheriff opened his own public school at the Orleans Parish Prison. "The Prison School," as locals called it, enrolled low-income African American boys who ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Publisher
University of California Press United States
Number of pages
216
Condition
New
Number of Pages
216
Place of Publication
Berkerley, United States
ISBN
9780520281455
SKU
V9780520281455
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About Lizbet Simmons
Lizbet Simmons is a sociologist living in Los Angeles.
Reviews for The Prison School: Educational Inequality and School Discipline in the Age of Mass Incarceration
"The Prison School is a disturbing and important book." New York Journal of Books