In this article, I explore how the social contract of schooling and the three functions of schooling (Noguera 2003)—to sort, to socialize, and to control— impact and constrain the freedom and agency of a group of young Black and Latinx men in one suburban school district that was experiencing sociodemographic shifts in the Northeastern United States. I use qualitative data to frame how the young men experience schooling, and I show how the local community context facilitates the institutionalization of discriminatory sorting processes and racially prejudiced norms. I also show how the young men are excessively controlled and monitored via zero tolerance disciplinary practices, which effectively constrains their humanity and capacity to freely exist in their school and which inadvertently strengthens the connective tissue between schools and prisons.
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Asserting the Capacity to be Free
Disciplinary Violence at the Intersection of Race and Gender in Shifting Contexts
Catherine Kramarczuk Voulgarides
“I Was Considered a Throw Away Child”
The School-to-Prison Pipeline through the Eyes of Incarcerated Adolescent and Adult Males
Taryn VanderPyl, Kelsie Cruz, and Hannah McCauley
The concept of the school-to-prison pipeline (STPP) has been extensively studied over the last few decades, yet few have included the perspective of those whom it has affected—incarcerated adolescent and adult males. Educators and policy makers are limited in determining solutions because they are missing this key perspective. Using a critical race theory framework, we focus on the voices of incarcerated youth and adults who have personally experienced the STPP. Young men within the juvenile and adult justice systems were asked their thoughts on and experiences with the STPP. Responses from 16 participants are shared, along with what they believe would have worked to help them stay out of the system, and their recommendations for how to improve the factors contributing to the STPP
The Bureaucratic Violence of Alternative Justice
Amanda J. Reinke
reflecting on a case he facilitated during his work as an unpaid RJ volunteer in Virginia. The case began with an in-school incident: a boy was angry that his girlfriend broke up with him, so he lashed out at whomever walked by and punched him. In zero-tolerance
In Conflict and Society
- Published (Print):
- 01 Jan 2018
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- Research Article
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- 135–150 (16 total)
Feminine Feminist
Şirin Tekeli
Ceylân Orhun
title to honor Şirin’s zero tolerance of any kind of censorship and her strong belief in the freedom of speech and expression. Besides, what’s wrong with being a feminine feminist?
“What about Last Time?”
Exploring Potentiality in Danish Young Women's Violent Conflicts
Ann-Karina Henriksen
). Thus, while studies document widespread and increasing zero-tolerance of violence in Danish society ( Balvig and Kyvsgård 2006 ), violence prevails in some social spaces where it links to social disadvantage such as poor mental health, substance abuse
In Conflict and Society
- Published (Print):
- 01 Jun 2021
- Article Type:
- Research Article
- Pages:
- 160–174 (15 total)
Contending with school reform
Neoliberal restructuring, racial politics, and resistance in post-Katrina New Orleans
Mathilde Lind Gustavussen
Other, Center for Restorative Approaches, and Families and Friends of Louisiana’s Incarcerated Children seek to redress the school-to-prison pipeline by advocating legislative change and promoting “restorative techniques” as an alternative to zero-tolerance
Documents and the bureaucratisation of alternative dispute resolution in the United States
Amanda J. Reinke
legitimacy from the state itself. In Laura's context, the absence of paperwork that evidences a child's misbehaviour keeps them from having a criminal record that may trigger zero tolerance policies. Once a child has been detained by an SRO, they are in
In Journal of Legal Anthropology
- Published (Print):
- 01 Jun 2020
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- Research Article
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- 1–22 (22 total)
Israel and East-Central Europe
Case Studies of Israel's Relations with Poland and Hungary
Joanna Dyduch
( Reichsverweser ) had collaborated with the Nazis in World War II ( Hungarian Spectrum 2017 ). The Jewish community in Hungary and Israel alike was enraged. In order to prevent a diplomatic crisis, the Hungarian government promised to adopt a “zero-tolerance
In Israel Studies Review
- Published (Print):
- 01 Mar 2021
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- Research Article
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- 7–25 (19 total)
Anti-racist Critique Through Racial Stereotype Humour
What Could Go Wrong?
Matthias Pauwels
From the outset, one may ask why comedians should be allowed to ‘get away’ with race-based humour at all? With racism today more than ever on the defensive, why not simply condemn such humour as retrogressive and plead for zero-tolerance? In line with
“You're Being Watched All the Time:”
Incarcerated Girls and Gendered Surveillance
Sanna King and Jerry Flores
neighborhoods and neighborhoods of color further perpetuates and maintains existing racial, gendered, and socioeconomic inequalities in terms of arrests and suspensions as well as in educational attainment and safety in schools ( Hope 2010 ). The zero-tolerance
In Girlhood Studies
- Published (Print):
- 01 Jun 2023
- Article Type:
- Research Article
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- 84–100 (17 total)