Being Down Challenging Violence In Urban Schools Book

	Foreword
	Acknowledgments
	Introduction	1
1	A Framework for Understanding Violence in School	9
	Violence in the Context of History, Culture, and Economics	9
	The Policy Picture	14
	Where Policy Meets the School	17
	The City and the School	18
	Entering Brandon High	20
	Being Down	24
2	Violence in the Organization of Schooling	26
	Systemic Violence	28
	Interpersonal and Hidden Violence	35
	A Glimpse at Peer Mediation	39
	Suicide and Self-mutilation	43
	The Spectacle of Violence	49
	A Portrait of a School	51
3	The Screening Committee and the Prison Track	54
	Going Before the Screening Committee	56
	On Placing and Dropping Students	71
	Suspension and Expulsion	75
	The "In" of Outplacements	77
4	Of Hood Rats and City Cops	79
	Enter the Police	81
	Police, Families, and Youth	83
	A System Apart	87
	Police, the Community, and Antagonism	90
	Community and Police Crossfire	93
	From Street Beat to School Police	95
5	Policing the Urban School Crisis	98
	Theoretical Foundations of School Policing	99
	The School Police Officer	101
	Policing Brandon High	104
	The Role of a School Police Officer	111
	Alliances in Unexpected Places	113
	From School Police to Classroom Cop	115
6	DARE Students Speak of Violence	117
	DARE in a National Context	121
	The Curriculum	125
	Viewing DARE Class	129
	Being Smart	136
	The Benefits of DARE	140
	Power, Ownership, and DARE	142
7	Public Policy, Popular Discourse, and Education Reform	144
	Linking Theory and Practice	145
	Education Reform in Short	147
	The School and the City Revisited	150
	School Restructuring for a Just Environment	152
	A Policy Postscript	155
	References	157
	Index	165
	About the Author	175