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Calvin Morrill and Michael Musheno, Navigating Conflict: How Youth Handle Trouble in High-poverty Schools

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AuthorElizabeth Brown
Published date01 January 2020
Date01 January 2020
DOI10.1177/1462474519846569
Subject MatterBook reviews
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Punishment & Society 22(1)
Calvin Morrill and Michael Musheno, Navigating Conflict: How Youth Handle Trouble in
High-poverty Schools, University of Chicago Press: Chicago, IL, 2018; 320 pp. (including
index): 9780226523736, $102.00, (hbk/pbk)
Navigating Conflict: How Youth Handle Trouble in High-Poverty Schools is the type
of book that represents the absolute best of academic research—it is historically
and geographically situated; methodologically rich, grounded and driven by the
participants in the study; and represents a deep, long-lasting commitment to the
research site that spans over three decades. Based upon deep participant observa-
tion among a team of fieldworkers, as well as open-ended interviews, archival
research, and youth-generated narratives, maps and artwork, this is one of those
rare projects that tells a story that gracefully accounts for the shifting interrelation-
ships between setting participants and the structures they live and recreate. Were
the book to just represent the intricate, considered, and thoughtfully engaged
approach to research enshrined therein, this would be praiseworthy in itself. But
this book also provides the reader with just as careful, considered and thoughtful
an approach to building social theory, and in doing so, asks readers to reconsider
the very terms of debate that define studies of youth, conflict, and urban settings.
Navigating Conflict is set in an urban high school in Arizona, and the authors
were in the field from 1997 to 2013, a period of time that overlapped what is often
referred to as the “safe schools” movement. Under the moniker of “safe schools,”
the school lives of youth around the US were transformed, as schools closed
campuses, erected security perimeters, and turned to law enforcement for disci-
pline. New West High School (NWHS), the setting the study, was no different, and
enacted regular “sweeps” of students, removed lockers, closed campus, erected a
perimeter fence, and put in metal detectors and secured entry-ways....

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