Selling Us the Fortress: The Promotion of Techno-Security Equipment for Schools - Softcover

Casella, Ronnie

 
9780415952903: Selling Us the Fortress: The Promotion of Techno-Security Equipment for Schools
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ISBN 10: 0415952905 ISBN 13: 9780415952903
Publisher: Routledge, 2006

Synopsis

In the wake of school shootings and the more recent threats of terrorism, schools - like many public institutions - have begun installing techno-security equipment ranging from surveillance cameras to microchip tracking systems. Is this equipment necessary and who really benefits from its use? Selling Us the Fortress, the first qualitative study of the relationship between the security industry and schools, analyzes how technologies once reserved primarily for war have become a common fixture in modern schools, including detailing how school personnel are "sold" on the idea that the mass installation of techno-security is in their best interest.

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About the Author

Ronnie Casella is Associate Professor of Educational Foundations and Secondary Education at Central Connecticut State University.

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Publisher
Routledge
Publication date
2006
Language
English
ISBN 10 
0415952905
ISBN 13 
9780415952903
Binding
Paperback
Edition number
1
Number of pages
256

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