Police in the Hallways: Discipline in an Urban High School

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Contents Foreword Paul Willis ix Introduction Studying Urban School Discipline: A Bronx Tale 1 1 How the Police Took Over School Discipline: From Policies of Inclusion to Punishment and Exclusion 19 2 Signs of the Times: Place, Culture, and Control at Urban Public High School 39 3 Instituting the Culture of Control: Disciplinary Practices and Order Maintenance 53 4 Against the Law: Student Noncompliance and Contestation 73 5 Tensions between Educational Approaches and Discourses of Control 95 6 The Underlife: Oppositional Behavior at Urban Public High School 117 7 Living Proof: Experiences of Economic and Educational Exclusion 145 Conclusion Recommendations for Effective Urban Schooling and Sound Discipline 163 Acknowledgments 185 Notes 187 Works Cited 195 Index 203 This page intentionally left blank ...