Profiting from Punishment: Public Education and the School Security Market

The article discusses the relationship between public education and the school security market in America as of 2015, and it mentions the punitive nature of public schools in the U.S., shared leadership and funding, and the structural forces shaping a correctional approach in education. The economic...

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Main Author: Simmons, Lizbet (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
Published: 2014
In: Social justice
Year: 2014, Volume: 41, Issue: 4, Pages: 81-95
Online Access: Volltext (Verlag)
Check availability: HBZ Gateway
Keywords:
Economics
Public education > Social aspects
Public schools > Social aspects
Public schools > United States
Punishment > United States
SHARED leadership
School discipline > Social aspects
School discipline > United States
School security
Social work in education
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Summary:The article discusses the relationship between public education and the school security market in America as of 2015, and it mentions the punitive nature of public schools in the U.S., shared leadership and funding, and the structural forces shaping a correctional approach in education. The economic aspects of punishment are examined, as well as racialized youth punishment and the penal state's impacts on the social welfare principles of public schooling in the U.S.