Introduction: studying urban school discipline: a Bronx tale
How the police took over school discipline: from policies of inclusion to punishment and exclusion
Signs of the times: place, culture, and control at urban public high school
Instituting the culture of control: disciplinary practices and order maintenance
Against the law: student noncompliance and contestation
Tensions between educational approaches and discourses of control
The underlife: oppositional behavior at urban public high school
Living proof: experiences of economic and educational exclusion
Conclusion: recommendations for effective urban schooling and sound discipline.