Anthony J. Nocella Ii, PhD, a scholar-activist, is a Senior Fellow in the Dispute Resolution Institute at the Hamline Law School. He has been an activist and community organizer dedicated to prison abolition and social justice for nearly twenty years and is the editor of the Peace Studies Journal. Nocella's latest work includes Policing the Campus: Academic Repression, Surveillance, and the Occupy Movement.
Priya Parmar, PhD, is Associate Professor of Secondary Education and Program Head of English Education at Brooklyn College, CUNY. Parmar's most recent scholarly works include Critical Literacy in English Literature and Knowledge Reigns Supreme: The Critical Pedagogy of Hip Hop Artist KRS-ONE.
David Stovall, PhD, is Associate Professor of Educational Policy Studies and African-American Studies at the University of Illinois at Chicago. In addition to his duties and responsibilities at UIC, he also serves as a volunteer social studies teacher at the Greater Lawndale/Little Village School for Social Justice.
Contents: Anthony J. Nocella II/Priya Parmar/David Stovall: Every Day Is Like Skydiving Without a Parachute: A Revolution for Abolishing the School to Prison Pipeline - Nancy A. Heitzeg: Criminalizing Education: Zero Tolerance Policies, Police in the Hallways, and the School to Prison Pipeline - Annette Fuentes: The Schoolhouse as Jailhouse - Damien M. Sojoyner: Changing the Lens: Moving Away from the School to Prison Pipeline - Henry A. Giroux: Punishment Creep and the Crisis of Youth in the Age of Disposability - Jesselyn McCurdy: Targets for Arrest - Four Arrows: Red Road Lost: A Story Based on True Events - Maisha T. Winn/Stephanie S. Franklin: Emerging from Our Silos: Coalition Building for Black Girls - Nekima Levy-Pounds: Warehousing, Imprisoning, and Labeling Youth «Minorities» - Deanna Adams/Erica Meiners: Who Wants to Be Special? Pathologization and the Preparation of Bodies for Prison - Anthony J. Nocella II/Kim Socha: The New Eugenics: Challenging Urban Education and Special Education and the Promise of Hip Hop Pedagogy - Mumia Abu-Jamal: Prisons of Ignorance - Deborah Appleman/Zeke Caligiuri/Jon Vang: At the End of the Pipeline: Can the Liberal Arts Liberate the Incarcerated? - Anthony J. Nocella II: Transforming Justice and Hip Hop Activism in Action - Don C. Sawyer III/Daniel White Hodge: Back on the Block: Community Reentry and Reintegration of Formerly Incarcerated Youth - Anne Burns Thomas: Youth in Transition and School Reentry: Process, Problems, and Preparation - Letitia Basford/Bridget Borer/Joe Lewis: A Reason to Be Angry: A Mother, Her Sons, and the School to Prison Pipeline - Emilio Lacques-Zapien/Leslie Mendoza: Youth of Color Fight Back: Transforming Our Communities.
The school-to-prison pipeline is a national concern, from the federal to local governments, and a leading topic in conversations in the field of urban education and juvenile justice. From Education to Incarceration: Dismantling the School-to-Prison Pipeline is a ground-breaking book that exposes the school system's direct relationship to the juvenile justice system. The book reveals various tenets contributing to unnecessary expulsions, leaving youth vulnerable to the streets and, ultimately, behind bars. From Education to Incarceration is a must-read for parents, teachers, law enforcement, judges, lawyers, administrators, and activists concerned with and involved in the juvenile justice and school system. The contributors are leading scholars in their fields and experts on the school-to-prison pipeline.