DARE to say no [electronic resource] : policing and the war on drugs in schools / Max Felker-Kantor.
2024
HV5808
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Title
DARE to say no [electronic resource] : policing and the war on drugs in schools / Max Felker-Kantor.
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ISBN
9798890887214 (electronic bk.)
9781469676371
1469676370
9781469676364
1469676362
9781469679044
1469679043
9781469676371
1469676370
9781469676364
1469676362
9781469679044
1469679043
Published
Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, [2024]
Language
English
Description
1 online resource.
Call Number
HV5808
Dewey Decimal Classification
362.29/30973 OCoLC
Summary
With its signature "DARE to keep kids off drugs" slogan and iconic t-shirts, DARE (Drug Abuse Resistance Education) was the most popular drug education program of the 1980s and 1990s. But behind the cultural phenomenon is the story of how DARE and other antidrug education programs brought the War on Drugs into schools and ensured that the velvet glove of antidrug education would be backed by the iron fist of rigorous policing and harsh sentencing. Max Felker-Kantor has assembled the first history of DARE, which began in Los Angeles in 1983 as a joint venture between the police department and the unified school district. By the mid-90s, it was taught in 75 percent of school districts across the United States. DARE received near-universal praise from parents, educators, police officers, and politicians and left an indelible stamp on many millennial memories. But the program had more nefarious ends, and Felker-Kantor complicates simplistic narratives of the War on Drugs. He shows how policing entered US schools and framed drug use as the result of personal responsibility, moral failure, and poor behavior deserving of punishment rather than something deeply rooted in state retrenchment, the abandonment of social service provisions, and structures of social and economic inequality.
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Justice, power, and politics.
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Table of Contents
Introduction: A Challenge to Arm the Nation's Youth
DARE to Keep Kids off Drugs
Cops as Teachers
Spreading the DARE Message
DARE America, Inc., and Public-Private Partnerships
DARE's Culture War
Just Say No to DARE
Epilogue: Keepin' it Real.
DARE to Keep Kids off Drugs
Cops as Teachers
Spreading the DARE Message
DARE America, Inc., and Public-Private Partnerships
DARE's Culture War
Just Say No to DARE
Epilogue: Keepin' it Real.