Burning Dislike - Ethnic Violence in High Schools

Violence in schools has more potential to involve large numbers of students, produce injuries, disrupt instructional time, and cause property damage than any other form of youth violence. Burning Dislike is the first book to use direct observation of everyday violent interactions to explore ethnic conflict in high schools. Why do young people engage in violence while in school? What is it about ethnicity that leads to fights?

Through the use of two direct observational studies conducted twenty-six years apart, Martín Sánchez-Jankowski documents the process of ethnic school violence from start to finish. In addition to shedding light on what causes this type of violence and how it progresses over time, Burning Dislike provides strategic policy suggestions to address this troubling phenomenon.

About the author

Martín Sánchez-Jankowski is Professor of Sociology and Director of the Institute for the Study of Societal Issues at the University of California, Berkeley. He is the author of Islands in the Street: Gangs and American Urban Society and Cracks in the Pavement: Social Change and Resilience in Poor Neighborhoods, among other books.

Summary

Why do young people engage in violence while in school? What is it about ethnicity that leads to fights? This title documents the process of ethnic school violence from start to finish.

Product details

• Authors: Martin Sanchez-Jankowski, Sanchez-Jankowski Martin
• Publisher: University Of California Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.04.2016
• EAN: 9780520289215
• ISBN: 978-0-520-28921-5
• No. of pages: 312
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Education > Social education, social work; USA, Ethnic Studies, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Violence in Society, EDUCATION / Counseling / General, Secondary Schools, United States of America, USA, Violence in society, Violence and abuse in society, Education: care & counselling of students, Counselling and care of students, EDUCATION / Schools / Levels / Secondary, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Cultural & Ethnic Studies / General