Criminality of black youth in inner-city schools: 'Moral panic', moral imagination, and moral formation

Race Ethnicity and Education

Volumn 13, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 367-381

  Farmer, Sarah ^a  

^a EMORY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Criminalization; adolescent moral formation; moral panic; moral poverty; culture of law and order; moral imagination; zero tolerance policies

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENCE; CRIME; IDENTITY CONSTRUCTION; INNER CITY AREA; MASS MEDIA; MORALITY; RACE; YOUNG POPULATION;

EID: 77956100902     PISSN: 13613324     EISSN: 1470109X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13613324.2010.500845     Document Type: Article

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