How do you tell the difference between a -good kid- and a -potential thug-? In Dangerous or Endangered?, Jennifer Tilton considers the ways in which children are increasingly viewed as dangerous and yet, simultaneously, as endangered and in need of protection by the state.
Tilton draws on three years of ethnographic research in Oakland, California, one of the nation's most racially diverse cities, to examine how debates over the nature and needs of young people have fundamentally reshaped politics, transforming ideas of citizenship and the state in contemporary...
How do you tell the difference between a -good kid- and a -potential thug-? In Dangerous or Endangered?, Jennifer Tilton considers...
The -school-to-prison pipeline- is an emerging trend that pushes large numbers of at-risk youth--particularly children of color--out of classrooms and into the juvenile justice system. The policies and practices that contribute to this trend can be seen as a pipeline with many entry points, from under-resourced K-12 public schools, to the over-use of zero-tolerance suspensions and expulsions and to the explosion of policing and arrests in public schools. The confluence of these practices threatens to prepare an entire generation of children for a future of incarceration. In this comprehensive...
The -school-to-prison pipeline- is an emerging trend that pushes large numbers of at-risk youth--particularly children of color--out of classrooms and...
