Maximum security
Subtitle: the culture of violence in inner-city schools
By: John Devine.
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 1996
Place of publication: Chicago
Language: eng
Number of pages: 279
Subjects: School violence -- United States; Urban schools -- United States -- Sociological aspects; Educational anthropology -- United States
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 259-269) and index.

CONTENTS:

1. Schools or "Schools"? Competing Discourses on Violence -- 2. Tutors, Mentors, Ethnographers -- 3. Foucault, Security Guards, and Indocile Bodies -- 4. Teachers and the "Marshmallow Effect" -- 5. Pedagogical Theory and the Mind/Body Duality -- 6. Violence: The Latest Curricular Specialty -- 7. "Youth's Youthfulness": An Alternate View -- 8. Remythologizing Inner-City Schooling -- Epilogue: A Jesuitical Fantasy.