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Maximum Security
John Devine
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Description for Maximum Security
Paperback. Based on years of frontline experience in New York's inner-city schools, this text seeks to demonstrate that intense policing and security strategies are not only ineffectual, they divorce students and teachers from their ethical and behavioural responsibilities. Num Pages: 292 pages, 10 halftones. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JFFE; JMAL; JNK; JNL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 156 x 235 x 19. Weight in Grams: 404.
Escalations in student violence continue throughout the American nation, but inner-city schools are the hardest hit, with classrooms and corridors infected by the anger, aggression, and criminality endemic to street life. Technological surveillance, security personnel, and paramilitary control tactics to maintain order and safety are the common administrative response. Based on years of frontline experience in New York's inner-city schools, this text seeks to demonstrate that such policing strategies are not only ineffectual, they divorce students and teachers from their ethical and behavioural responsibilities.
Escalations in student violence continue throughout the American nation, but inner-city schools are the hardest hit, with classrooms and corridors infected by the anger, aggression, and criminality endemic to street life. Technological surveillance, security personnel, and paramilitary control tactics to maintain order and safety are the common administrative response. Based on years of frontline experience in New York's inner-city schools, this text seeks to demonstrate that such policing strategies are not only ineffectual, they divorce students and teachers from their ethical and behavioural responsibilities.
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1997
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Number of pages
292
Condition
New
Number of Pages
296
Place of Publication
, United States
ISBN
9780226143873
SKU
V9780226143873
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