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Homeroom security

By Jonathan Simor

Even though my blurb reads like a teaser aimed at security minded parents of school age children anxious to find out what research can tell them about how to avoid the next Columbine, Aaron Kupchik's important new book on the securitization of American schools helps us understand how much the compulsion to hard wire schools for security against a variety of real and imagined crime threats (too often imagined). Kupchik's work is part of an important wave of new empirical studies by criminologists, political scientists and sociologists that is probing the practice of crime control inside schools more than a decade of the passage of the landmark School Safety Act of 1994, at the height of Clinton's war on crime. Kupchik's well designed qualitative and quantitative research helps make clear that while some of this an extension of racialized versions of coding the identity of minority youth in disadvantaged communities as defined by crime, much of it cuts across race and class demarcations...continue to full post

Full post as published by Governing Through Crime on December 14, 2010 (boomark / email).