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Children In Comparative Perspective. Sage Publications
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Ideology, Class, and Criminal Justice. Allyn & Bacon.
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Skoll, J., and Weyermann, D. (Producers), & Guggenheim, D. (2010). Waiting For Superman [Motion Picture]. United States: Paramount Pictures.
Winn, M. (2011). Girl Time: Literacy, Justice, and the School-to-Prison Pipeline. Teachers college Press.
Meadows, Donella H. 2008. Thinking in systems: a primer. Chelsea Green Publishing, Vermont.
http://www.sentencingproject.org
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Raise your voice. (2011, April 3). Retrieved from http://www.raiseyourvoice.com
Sentencing Project, “Felony Disenfranchisement Laws in the United States,” (Washington, DC: March 2010). Retrieved from http://www.sentencingproject.org
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2000 Elementary and Secondary School Survey, National and State Projections (Data is from the 2000-2001 school year). www.ed.gov/offices/OCR/data.html
Rainwater, L. and Smeeding, T. (2005). Poor Kids In A Rich Country: America's
Children In Comparative Perspective. Sage Publications
Reiman, J. & Leighton, P. 2009. The Rich Get Richer and the Poor Get Prison:
Ideology, Class, and Criminal Justice. Allyn & Bacon.
Skiba, R.J., et al. (2000). The Color of Discipline: Sources of Racial and Gender Disproportionally in School Punishment. Urban Review, 2000
Skoll, J., and Weyermann, D. (Producers), & Guggenheim, D. (2010). Waiting For Superman [Motion Picture]. United States: Paramount Pictures.
Winn, M. (2011). Girl Time: Literacy, Justice, and the School-to-Prison Pipeline. Teachers college Press.
Meadows, Donella H. 2008. Thinking in systems: a primer. Chelsea Green Publishing, Vermont.
http://www.sentencingproject.org
Bureau of Justice Assistance (1997). “Denial of Federal Benefits Program and Clearinghouse.” November. http://www.ncjrs.gov/pdffiles1/bja/193770.pdf
Travis, J. (2002). “Invisible Punishment: An Instrument of Social Exclusion.” In Mauer and Chesney-Lind, Invisible Punishment.
Douglas, M. (2003). Drug war facts.
New York: A Common Sense on Drug Policy.1996 personal responsibility and work opportunity reconciliation act. (2011, April 24). Retrieved from Sourcewatch.org
Prison Culture: cradle to the grave. (2011, April 1). Retrieved from www.usprisonculture.com
The state of black children & families: black perspectives on what black children face and what the future holds, research findings (2011, January 1). [Online Forum Comment]. Retrieved from http://www.ChildrensDefense.org
Cradle to prison pipeline. (2011, April 1). Retrieved from http://childrensdefense.org
1998 amendments to the higher education act as amended. (2011, April 1). Retrieved from http://www.getsmartaboutdrugs.com
Raise your voice. (2011, April 3). Retrieved from http://www.raiseyourvoice.com
Sentencing Project, “Felony Disenfranchisement Laws in the United States,” (Washington, DC: March 2010). Retrieved from http://www.sentencingproject.org
Congress votes to change crack vs. cocaine sentencing laws. (2010, July 28). News one, Retrieved from http://newsone.com
Cortez, Jose. United States. 2009 Annual report. Olympia: The Department of Corrections, 2009. Print United States. State and country facts sheet. , 2011
Milner, Richard. “Race, Culture, and Researcher Positionality: Working Through Dangers Seen, Unseen, and Unforeseen.” Educational Researchers. 36.7 (2007) 388-400. Print.
Peralta, Stacy, Dir. Bloods and Crips: Made in America. Dir. Stacy Peralta. Perf. Forest, Whittaker. 2009, Film <imbd.com>
Mayer, J. (2006). Waiting on the world to change. Continuum [CD]. United States: Columbia Records.