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Students as Threats: Schooling Inside a Youth Prison
Author(s) -
Vélez YoungAlfaro Morghan
Publication year - 2017
Publication title -
anthropology and education quarterly
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.531
H-Index - 46
eISSN - 1548-1492
pISSN - 0161-7761
DOI - 10.1111/aeq.12201
Subject(s) - prison , framing (construction) , ethnography , sociology , criminology , identity (music) , gender studies , juvenile delinquency , social psychology , psychology , physics , structural engineering , anthropology , acoustics , engineering
This ethnography explores incarcerated students’ experiences and dynamics of identity formation inside a youth prison school. Across two years, 100 students and 50 adults were engaged. The structure, discourse, and adult–student interactions revealed a fixation on framing students as threats with a racialized undertone while also exposing the conditionality of the discourse. This study pulls attention into the youth prison school, aligning with educational research on the pipeline to prison, race talk, and identity formation.