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This volume examines the school-to-prison pipeline, a concept that has received growing attention over the past 10–15 years in the United States. The “pipeline” refers to a number of interrelated concepts and activities that most often include the criminalization of students and student behavior, the police-like state found in many schools throughout the country, and the introduction of youth into the criminal justice system at an early age. The school-to-prison pipeline negatively and disproportionally affects communities of color throughout the United States, particularly in urban areas. Given the demographic composition of public schools in the United States, the nature of student performance in schools over the past 50 years, the manifestation of school-to-prison pipeline approaches pervasive throughout the country and the world, and the growing incarceration rates for youth, this volume explores this issue from the sociological, criminological, and educational perspectives. Understanding, Dismantling, and Disrupting the Prison-to-School Pipeline has contributions from scholars and practitioners who work in the fields of sociology, counseling, criminal justice, and who are working to dismantle the pipeline. While the academic conversation has consistently called the pipeline ‘school-to-prison,’ including the framing of many chapters in this book, the economic and market forces driving the prison-industrial complex urge us to consider reframing the pipeline as one working from ‘prison-to-school.’ This volume points toward the tensions between efforts to articulate values of democratic education and schooling against practices that criminalize youth and engage students in reductionist and legalistic manners.

Table of Contents

Foreword, Bettina L. Love

Chapter 1. Free-Market Super Predators and the Neo-liberal Engineering of Crisis: Examining 21st Century Educational & Penal Realism, Kenneth J. Fasching-Varner, Lori L. Martin, Roland W. Mitchell, Karen P. Bennett-Haron, & Arash Daneshzadeh

Chapter 2. Too Much, Too Little, But Never Too Late: Countering the Extremes in Gifted and Special Education for Black and Hispanic Students, Donna Y. Ford, Gilman W. Whiting, Ramon B. Goings, and Sheree N. Alexander

Chapter 3. Pipeline in Crisis: A Call to Sociological and Criminological Studies Scholars to Dismantle the School-to-Prison Pipeline, Melinda Jackson, Tifanie Pulley, and Dari Green

Chapter 4. “I got in trouble, but I really didn't get caught:” The discursive construction of 'Throwaway Youth', Tracey M. Pyscher and Brian D. Lozenski

Chapter 5. Lyrical Interventions: Hip Hop, Counseling Education, and School-to-Prison, Arash Daneshzadeh and Ahmad Washington

Chapter 6. Crapitalism: Toward a Fantasyland in the Wal-Mart

Product details

Published Dec 06 2016
Format Ebook (PDF)
Edition 1st
Extent 1
ISBN 9781978775633
Imprint Lexington Books
Illustrations 4 b/w illustrations; 4 tables;
Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing

About the contributors

Anthology Editor

Kenneth J. Fasching-Varner

Kenneth J. Fasching-Varner is associate professor…

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Lori Latrice Martin

Lori Latrice Martin is associate dean in the Colle…

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Roland W. Mitchell

Roland Mitchell is the Jo Ellen Levy Yates Endowed…

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Karen Bennett-Haron

Hon. Karen P. Bennett-Haron serves as Justice of t…

Anthology Editor

Arash Daneshzadeh

Arash Daneshzadeh is a faculty member at the Unive…

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Jill Castek

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Jahaan Chandler

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Christine Clark

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Donna Y. Ford

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Ramon B. Goings

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Dari Green

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Irvin Guerrero

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Jim Hollar

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Jesslyn Hollar

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Melinda Jackson

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Gloria E. Jacobs

Gloria E. Jacobs is an associate professor of lite…

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Kelsey M. Jones

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Runell J. King

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Kasim Ortiz

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George Sirrakos

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Devon Wade

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Tonya Walls

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