TY - BOOK AU - Casella,Ronnie TI - "Being down": challenging violence in urban schools SN - 0807741477 AV - LB3013.32. C37 2001 U1 - 373.1782 PY - 2001///] CY - New York PB - Teachers College Press KW - School violence KW - United States KW - Prevention KW - Case studies KW - Education, Urban KW - Social aspects KW - Teenagers with social disabilities KW - Education N1 - Includes bibliographical references (pages 157-164) and index; Foreword; Jean Anyon --; 1; A Framework for Understanding Violence in School; Violence in the Context of History, Culture, and Economics; The Policy Picture; Where Policy Meets the School; The City and the School; Entering Brandon High; Being Down --; 2; Violence in the Organization of Schooling; Systemic Violence; Interpersonal and Hidden Violence; A Glimpse at Peer Mediation; Suicide and Self-mutilation; The Spectacle of Violence; A Portrait of a School --; 3; The Screening Committee and the Prison Track; Going Before the Screening Committee; On Placing and Dropping Students; Suspension and Expulsion; The "In" of Outplacements --; 4; Of Hood Rats and City Cops; Enter the Police; Police, Families, and Youth; A System Apart; Police, the Community, and Antagonism; Community and Police Crossfire; From Street Beat to School Police --; 5; Policing the Urban School Crisis; Theoretical Foundations of School Policing; The School Police Officer; Policing Brandon High; The Role of a School Police Officer; Alliances in Unexpected Places; From School Police to Classroom Cop --; 6; DARE Students Speak of Violence; DARE in a National Context; The Curriculum; Viewing DARE Class; Being Smart; The Benefits of DARE; Power, Ownership, and DARE --; 7; Public Policy, Popular Discourse, and Education Reform; Linking Theory and Practice; Education Reform in Short; The School and the City Revisited; School Restructuring for a Just Environment; A Policy Postscript ER -