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The New American School: preparation for post‐industrial discipline

Kupchik, Aaron, Monahan, Torin·2006·British Journal of Sociology of Education
DOI 10.1080/01425690600958816
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In this article we consider how broad shifts in social relations over the past 30 years have given rise to new social control regimes in US public schools. We argue that the contemporary mechanisms of control engendered by mass incarceration and post‐industrialization have re‐shaped school discipline. To illustrate contemporary discipline in the ‘New American School,’ we discuss the emergence of police officers and technological surveillance in schools. These two strategies of school social control facilitate the link between courts and schools, and expose students to both the salience of crime control in everyday life and to the demands of workers in a post‐industrial world. By incorporating police officers and technological surveillance into the school safety regime, schools shape the experiences of students in ways that reflect modern relationships of dependency, inequality, and instability vis‐à‐vis the contemporary power dynamics of the post‐industrialist labor market and the neoliberal state.

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  • Schools have evolved from relatively open sites for learning to settings that replicate the features of control and surveillance common to the criminal legal system.

    “the evolution of schools from relatively open sites for learning to settings that replicate the features of control and surveillance common to the criminal legal system (Hirschfield 2008;Kupchik and Monahan 2006;Rios 2017).”

    From The Rise of the Carceral State: Foundations and Contours of a Rapidly Changing Criminal Legal System (2025) · cites this paper as Kupchik and Monahan 2006

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Authors
Kupchik, A., & Monahan, T.
Affiliations
  • University of Delaware (US)
  • Arizona State University (US)
Corresponding author
Kupchik, Aaron
ORCID
Venue
British Journal of Sociology of Education
Publisher
Informa UK Limited
Published
2006-11
Volume
27
Issue
5
Pages
617-631
ISSN
  • 0142-5692 (ISSN-L)
  • 1465-3346
DOI
10.1080/01425690600958816
OpenAlex
W2148461591
Cited by
255
References
71
Citations by year
2026: 7 · 2025: 5 · 2024: 6 · 2023: 5 · 2022: 10 · 2021: 11 · 2020: 60 · 2019: 12 · 2018: 20 · 2017: 16 · 2016: 13 · 2015: 13 · 2014: 14 · 2013: 11 · 2012: 11
FWCI
14.67
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
closed
Locations
British Journal of Sociology of Education (publishedVersion)
Topics
  • Social Sciences › Education › Education Discipline and Inequality
  • Social Sciences › Law › Criminal Justice and Penology
  • Social Sciences › Sociology and Political Science › Crime, Deviance, and Social Control
Keywords
student discipline, social control in schools, mass incarceration, post-industrial society, school policing, school safety, crime control, neoliberalism, labor market, dependency, inequality, United States public schools

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