Thomas Durkin

• Marquette University

Growing evidence over the last few decades has highlighted that punitive approaches in schools perpetuate violence, furthering inequities, deepening issues of safety, and negatively impacting young people’s development. These impacts are particularly felt in underresourced urban schools situated in contexts of community violence. Partially, in resp...

Often intersecting with systemic inequity and injustice, young people’s exposure to community violence has been linked to a myriad of developmental impacts. A growing literature demonstrates the potential of peace education programs to promote resilient and prosocial outcomes for these individuals. Still, more work can be done to understand underly...

"The Games Men Play" examines the relationship between madness and the social construction of masculinity in the period following World War II. Through an examination of works by J.D. Salinger, Ken Kesey, Jack Kerouac, and Ralph Ellison, it focuses on how madness serves as a metaphor for man's unwillingness or inability to attain a prescribed sense...

Thesis (M.A.)--Boise State University, 2000. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 60-63).