Special Kids for Special Treatment?: Or how special do you need to be to find yourself in a special school?

First published in 1997. This book compares and contrasts the experiences of deviant pupils in a mainstream school with that of those in a special unit for pupils with behavioural problems. The author’s aims are to (i) evaluate the differences between the behaviour of deviant boys and girls within the mainstream education system with those without; and (ii) justify the criteria for transferring deviant pupils to special units.

Her research shows that there is no uniformity in the deviant be...