Being Down: Challenging Violence In Urban Schools; Author: Casella, Ronnie; Introduction: Anyon, Jean; Paperback

Author: Casella, Ronnie; Introduction: Anyon, Jean
Paperback
192 pages
Published: September 2001
Teachers College Press
ISBN: 0807741477

This book looks at the lives of young people and the violence that is a daily part of their world in an urban high school. Being Down studies school violence comprehensively -- linking school ethnography, policy analysis, and urban studies and encompassing city politics, racism, policing, and systemic and economic injustices in its all-too-real portrait of youth violence in American society.Rich with dialogue, this timely volume considers school violence in its many forms, including gun and weapon usage, assault and harassment, bullying, fighting, suicide, and hate crimes. In addition to youth violence, the book examines federal policies and court cases that have shaped judicial and punitive responses to violence.This work looks at the lives of young people and the violence that is a daily part of their world in an urban high school. It studies school violence, linking school ethnography, policy analysis, and urban studies, covering city politics, racism, policing, and economic injustices.