This book provides a hard-hitting account of the realities of exclusion and examines the behaviour which typically results in exclusion.

1.Education function, education provision and social selection 2.School exclusions in the United Kingdom: numbers, trends and variations 3.The changing social context of education and school exclusions 4.Disaffection, truancy and exclusion from school 5.The correlates of school exclusion 6.The economics of school exclusion 7. The law, rights and excluded pupils 8.The media, schooling and exclusion 9.Inter-agency work, schools and exclusions 10.Political values, welfare and educational policy