School safety: Real or imagined fear?

Educational Policy

Volumn 22, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 28-44

  Lindle, Jane Clark ^a  

^a CLEMSON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Persistently dangerous schools; Politics of zero tolerance; School safety; School violence; School community relations

Indexed keywords

EID: 37649006214     PISSN: 08959048     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0895904807311295     Document Type: Article

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