About the Book
This volume examines the school-to-prison pipeline, a concept that has received growing attention over the past 10–15 years in the United States. The “pipeline” refers to a number of interrelated concepts and activities that most often include the criminalization of students and student behavior, the police-like state found in many schools throughout the country, and the introduction of youth into the criminal justice system at an early age. The school-to-prison pipeline negatively and disproportionally affects communities of color throughout the United States, particularly in urban areas. Given the demographic composition of public schools in the United States, the nature of student performance in schools over the past 50 years, the manifestation of school-to-prison pipeline approaches pervasive throughout the country and the world, and the growing incarceration rates for youth, this volume explores this issue from the sociological, criminological, and educational perspectives. Understanding, Dismantling, and Disrupting the Prison-to-School Pipeline has contributions from scholars and practitioners who work in the fields of sociology, counseling, criminal justice, and who are working to dismantle the pipeline. While the academic conversation has consistently called the pipeline ‘school-to-prison,’ including the framing of many chapters in this book, the economic and market forces driving the prison-industrial complex urge us to consider reframing the pipeline as one working from ‘prison-to-school.’ This volume points toward the tensions between efforts to articulate values of democratic education and schooling against practices that criminalize youth and engage students in reductionist and legalistic manners.
Table of Contents:
Foreword, Bettina L. Love
Chapter 1. Free-Market Super Predators and the Neo-liberal Engineering of Crisis: Examining 21st Century Educational & Penal Realism, Kenneth J. Fasching-Varner, Lori L. Martin, Roland W. Mitchell, Karen P. Bennett-Haron, & Arash Daneshzadeh
Chapter 2. Too Much, Too Little, But Never Too Late: Countering the Extremes in Gifted and Special Education for Black and Hispanic Students, Donna Y. Ford, Gilman W. Whiting, Ramon B. Goings, and Sheree N. Alexander
Chapter 3. Pipeline in Crisis: A Call to Sociological and Criminological Studies Scholars to Dismantle the School-to-Prison Pipeline, Melinda Jackson, Tifanie Pulley, and Dari Green
Chapter 4. “I got in trouble, but I really didn’t get caught:” The discursive construction of ‘Throwaway Youth’, Tracey M. Pyscher and Brian D. Lozenski
Chapter 5. Lyrical Interventions: Hip Hop, Counseling Education, and School-to-Prison, Arash Daneshzadeh and Ahmad Washington
Chapter 6. Crapitalism: Toward a Fantasyland in the Wal-Martization of America’s Education and Criminal Justice System, Dari Green, Melinda Jackson, and Tifanie Pulley
Chapter 7. Loving To Read…And Other Things of Which I Have Become Ashamed, Michael J. Seaberry
Chapter 8. Breaking the Pipeline: Using Restorative Justice to Lead the Way, Kerii Landry-Thomas
Chapter 9. In and of Itself a Risk Factor: Exclusionary Discipline and the School-to-Prison Pipeline, Russell J. Skiba, Mariella I. Arredondo, and Natasha T. Williams
Chapter 10. Unpacking Classroom Discipline Pedagogy: Intent vs. Impact, Tonya Walls, Janessa Schilmoeller, Irvin Guerrero, and Christine Clark
Chapter 11. The Role of Teacher Educators in the School-To-Prison Pipeline: A Critical Look at Both a Traditional Teacher Education Program and an Alternative Certification Route Model, James L. Hollar and Jesslyn R. Hollar
Chapter 12. Exiting the Pipeline: The Role of a Digital Literacy Acquisition Program within the Orleans Parish Prison Reentry Process, Gloria E. Jacobs, Elizabeth Withers, and Jill Castek
Chapter 13. Punishing Trauma: How Schools Contribute to the Carceral Continuum Through It’s Response to Traumatic Experiences, Devon Tyrone Wade and Kasim S. Ortiz
Chapter 14. Still Gifted: Understanding the Role of Racialized Dis/ability in the School-to-Prison Pipeline, Kelsey M. Jones
Chapter 15. The Fight to Be Free: Exclusionary Discipline Practices and the School-to-Prison Pipeline, Runell King
Chapter 16. The Criminalization of Blackness and the School-to-Prison Pipeline, Jahaan Chandler
Chapter 17. Growing Teachers, Not Prisoners: The Potential for Grow Your Own Teacher Preparation Programs to Disrupt the School-to-Prison Pipeline, George Sirrakos Jr. and Tabetha Bernstein-Danis
