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Prelude to Prison: Student Perspectives on School Suspension. Marsha Weissman. Syracuse: Syracuse University Press, 2015, 328 pp.

Prelude to Prison: Student Perspectives on School Suspension. Marsha Weissman. Syracuse: Syracuse... City & Society Book Review Prelude to Prison: Student these moments of conflict in our Perspectives on School Suspension. schools. Marsha Weissman is well- Marsha Weissman, Syracuse: Syracuse situated to fill these gaps, having built a University Press, 2015, 328 pp. long career working to transform the school-to-prison pipeline through the Jennifer Tilton Center for Community Alternatives in University of Redlands Syracuse, New York. Prelude to Prison: Student perspectives on School Suspension Over the last few years, videos draws on interviews with 25 young circulating on the internet have brought people who have been suspended or the public into classrooms, hallways, and expelled from school. It also draws upon pool parties where we have seen police Weissman’s decades of experience violently arrest black teenage girls and talking to school administrators, boys. In one well-publicized case, a observing disciplinary hearings, and teacher in South Carolina called a police participating in meetings where police, officer into class to deal with a black girl school officials, and community who refused to put away her cell phone. members struggle over how to make Many of us watched online as this minor schools safe and equitable for all disciplinary incident escalated as the girl http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png City & Society Wiley

Prelude to Prison: Student Perspectives on School Suspension. Marsha Weissman. Syracuse: Syracuse University Press, 2015, 328 pp.

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City & Society , Volume 29 (1) – Apr 1, 2017
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10.1111/ciso.12105
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City & Society Book Review Prelude to Prison: Student these moments of conflict in our Perspectives on School Suspension. schools. Marsha Weissman is well- Marsha Weissman, Syracuse: Syracuse situated to fill these gaps, having built a University Press, 2015, 328 pp. long career working to transform the school-to-prison pipeline through the Jennifer Tilton Center for Community Alternatives in University of Redlands Syracuse, New York. Prelude to Prison: Student perspectives on School Suspension Over the last few years, videos draws on interviews with 25 young circulating on the internet have brought people who have been suspended or the public into classrooms, hallways, and expelled from school. It also draws upon pool parties where we have seen police Weissman’s decades of experience violently arrest black teenage girls and talking to school administrators, boys. In one well-publicized case, a observing disciplinary hearings, and teacher in South Carolina called a police participating in meetings where police, officer into class to deal with a black girl school officials, and community who refused to put away her cell phone. members struggle over how to make Many of us watched online as this minor schools safe and equitable for all disciplinary incident escalated as the girl

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