Lockdown High
When the Schoolhouse Becomes a Jailhouse
Verso Books · Print & ebook · February 12, 2013
School violence has fallen steadily for twenty years.
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- Who it’s for
- Readers interested in policing and discipline in U.S. public schools
- Themes
- School-to-prison pipeline, School policing and surveillance, Students’ rights and dignity
- Genres
- School Safety, Criminology, School Violence Prevention
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School violence has fallen steadily for twenty years. Yet in schools throughout the United States, Annette Fuentes finds metal detectors and drug tests for aspirin, police profiling of students with no records, arbitrary expulsions, armed teachers, increased policing, and all-seeing electronic surveillance. This climate of fear has permitted the imposition of unprecedented restrictions on young people’s rights, dignity, and educational freedoms.
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In what many call the school-to-prison pipeline, the policing and practices of the juvenile justice system increasingly infiltrate the schoolhouse. These “zero tolerance” measures push the most vulnerable and academically needy students out of the classroom and into harm’s way. Fuentes’s moving stories will astonish and anger readers, as she makes the case that the public schools of the twenty-first century reflect a society with an unhealthy fixation on crime, security and violence.
Who it’s for
- Readers interested in policing and discipline in U.S. public schools
- Readers exploring the school-to-prison pipeline and student rights
Where it sits
| School Safety | 79% |
|---|---|
| Criminology | 28% |
| School Violence Prevention | 25% |
Percentages are BookFrontier’s reading of the book.
Publisher categories
- School Safety
- Penology & Prisons
- Violence in Society
- Authors
- Annette Fuentes
- Publisher
- Verso Books
- Published
- February 12, 2013
- Format
- Print & ebook
- Theme
- School-to-prison pipeline · School policing and surveillance · Students’ rights and dignity
- Reading lane
- School Safety