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| Subjects: Sociology |
| Part of the Youth, Crime, and Justice Series |
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While most educators, students, and parents accept new harsh policing and punishment strategies for schools such as police officers, armed security guards, surveillance cameras, and metal detectors, based on the assumption that they keep children safe, Aaron Kupchik argues that we need to think more carefully about how we protect and punish students. In Homeroom Security, Kupchik shows that these policies
lead schools to prioritize the rules instead of students,
so that students’ real problems—often the very reasons for
their misbehavior—get ignored. Based on years of impressive
field research, Kupchik demonstrates that the policies
we have zealously adopted in schools across the country are
the opposite of the strategies that are known to successfully
reduce student misbehavior and violence. Our schools and
our students can and should be safe, and Homeroom Security
offers real strategies for making them so.
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Aaron Kupchik is associate professor in the department of sociology and criminal justice at the University of Delaware. He is the author of Judging Juveniles: Prosecuting Adolescents in Adult and Juvenile Courts (NYU Press), winner of the 2007 American Society of Ciminology Michael J. Hindelang Award for the Most Outstanding Contribution to Research in Criminology. View all books by Aaron Kupchik |
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| “In his compelling, important book about American schools and discipline, Kupchik, a professor of sociology at the University of Delaware, punctures the myth that tighter security measures stemmed from Columbine or any other school shooting.”
| | -Kate Tuttle, Boston Globe |
| “Kupchik's writing is meticulous and even-handed, even praising the officers whose methods he strongly disagrees with.”
| | -Salon.com |
| “Few issues are more important to parents than school violence. . . . This is research of prime quality that is readable and rigorous on an issue of extraordinary public importance and interest.”
| | -Jonathan Simon, author of Governing through Crime |
| "Kupchik provides a compelling and detailed overview of the current discipline environment in today's schools . . . Kupchik builds the case that the recent law-and-order appraoch to student behavior may have many negative consequences, such as developing a population that never questions authority while not accomplishing the goal of keeping students safer." | | -VOYA Library Magazine, VOYA Library Magazine |
| "In this reevaluation of efforts to address school safety, Kupchik finds that recent attempts to reduce school violence have resulted in actions that contribute to the problem rather than correct it." | | -R. Roth, Choice Magazine |
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