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Author Devine, John (John Francis)

Title Maximum security : the culture of violence in inner-city schools / John Devine.

Publication Info. Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 1996.

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Location Call No. Status
 University of Saint Joseph: Pope Pius XII Library - Standard Shelving Location  371.58 D495M    Check Shelf
 West Hartford, Noah Webster Library - Non Fiction  371.58 DEVINE    Check Shelf
Description xi, 279 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Contents Schools or "schools"? Competing discourses on violence -- Tutors, mentors, ethnographers -- Foucault, security guards, and indocile bodies -- Teachers and the "marshmallow effect" -- Pedagogical theory and the mind/body duality -- Violence: the latest curricular specialty -- "Youth's youthfulness": an alternate view -- Remythologizing inner-city schooling -- A Jesuitical fantasy.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 259-269) and index.
Subject School violence -- United States.
Urban schools -- United States -- Sociological aspects.
Educational anthropology -- United States.
ISBN 0226143864 alkaline paper
0226143872 paperback alkaline paper
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