Homeroom Security: School Discipline in an Age of Fear

by Aaron Kupchik

Book Overview

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 been decreasing nationally for the past two decades...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0814748201
• ISBN13: 9780814748206
• Release Date: August 2010
• Publisher: New York University Press
• Length: 274 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.3" x 9.2"