This book offers a research and comparison-driven look at the
school-to-prison pipeline, its racial dynamics, the connections to
mass incarceration, and our flawed educational climate-and suggests
practical remedies for change. How is racism perpetuated by the
education system, particularly via the "school-to-prison pipeline?"
How is the school to prison pipeline intrinsically connected to the
larger context of the prison industrial complex as well as the
extensive and ongoing criminalization of youth of color? This book
uniquely describes the system of policies and practices that
racialize criminalization by routing youth of color out of school
and towards prison via the school-to-prison pipeline while
simultaneously medicalizing white youth for comparable behaviors.
This work is the first to consider and link all of the research and
data from a sociological perspective, using this information to
locate racism in our educational systems; describe the rise of the
so-called prison industrial complex; spotlight the concomitant
expansion of the "medical-industrial complex" as an alternative for
controlling the white and well-off, both adult and juveniles; and
explore the significance of media in furthering the white racial
frame that typically views people of color as "criminals" as an
automatic response. The author also examines the racial dynamics of
the school to prison pipeline as documented by rates of suspension,
expulsion, and referrals to legal systems and sheds light on the
comparative dynamics of the related educational social control of
white and middle-class youth in the larger context of society as a
whole. Provides readers with an understanding of the realities of
the school-to-prison pipeline-its history, development, and
racialized context and meaning-as well as the continued
significance of race and other socially differentiating factors in
shaping public policy and everyday decisions regarding "deviance,"
"discipline," and social control Examines the under-explored
dynamic that places a predominantly white teaching staff in schools
that are predominantly schools of color, and considers the roles
that stereotypes and cultural conflicts play in the labeling of
students Suggests viable options for action towards dismantling the
institutionalized racism revealed by the school-to-prison pipeline
via both policy reforms and transformational alternatives Presents
information relevant to a range of college courses, such as
education, sociology of deviance, sociology of education, youth
studies, legal studies, criminal justice, and racial/ethnic studies
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