Police in the hallways : discipline in an urban high school /
Kathleen Nolan ; foreword by Paul Willis.
- Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, c2011.
- xii, 209 p. ; 23 cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction: studying urban school discipline: a Bronx tale -- How the police took over school discipline: from policies of inclusion to punishment and exclusion -- Signs of the times: place, culture, and control at urban public high school -- Instituting the culture of control: disciplinary practices and order maintenance -- Against the law: student noncompliance and contestation -- Tensions between educational approaches and discourses of control -- The underlife: oppositional behavior at urban public high school -- Living proof: experiences of economic and educational exclusion -- Conclusion: recommendations for effective urban schooling and sound discipline.