Lockdown high : when the schoolhouse becomes a jailhouse / Annette Fuentes.

Author: Fuentes, Annette.

Imprint:London ; New York : Verso, 2011.

Descriptionxi, 226 p. ; 24 cm.

Note:A brief history of school violence -- We are Columbine -- Crime and punishment : the zero tolerance epidemic -- Supermax schoolhouse -- The war on drugs goes to school -- The profiteers of Lockdown High -- Policing the schools, arresting development -- Busting out of Lockdown High : alternative paths to safe schools.

Bibliography Note:Includes bibliographical references (p. [201]-211) and index.

Note:A report on the overblown fear of violence that turns American schools into prisons and students into suspects describes how the fixation on crime and security has resulted in unprecedented restrictions on student rights, dignity, and educational freedom.

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