Police in the hallways: discipline in an urban high school

Introduction: studying urban school discipline: a Bronx tale

How the police took over school discipline: from policies of inclusion to punishment and exclusion

Signs of the times: place, culture, and control at urban public high school

Instituting the culture of control: disciplinary practices and order maintenance

Against the law: student noncompliance and contestation

Tensions between educational approaches and discourses of control

The underlife: oppositional behavior at urban public high school

Living proof: experiences of economic and educational exclusion

Conclusion: recommendations for effective urban schooling and sound discipline.