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Beyond Fear: Sociological Perspectives on the Criminalization of School Discipline

Since the early 1990s American schools have adopted a number of practices – zero tolerance, school police, metal detectors, drug sweeps, and surveillance cameras – that signal a shift from a discretionary student disciplinary framework to a crime control paradigm. The sociological sub‐field that cen...

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Published in:Sociology compass 2011-01, Vol.5 (1), p.1-12
Main Authors: Hirschfield, Paul J., Celinska, Katarzyna
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