Thus, institutions that were intended to cultivate youth (schools) have been collapsed into the practice of surveillance and criminalization, often acting as police order and probation officers. In Spider's case, he was isolated from the “normal” school and sent to EOCS, which was a school for students who had already been officially labeled as deviants and delinquents by the school district. There, many teachers had a common practice that whenever a student misbehaved, they would threaten to call the police, send them to prison, or call their PO (sometimes, even for students who were not on probation). In an effort to maintain social order, the school used the full force of the criminal justice institutions to regulate students' behaviors with constant threats. Furthermore, Rios explains that the beating of Slick, an EOC student, was the result of the school's impeccable communication between a security officer, administrators and police officer Miles. In these types of educational settings, stigma, labeling, detention, harassment, and humiliation are virtually the only consistent experience teenagers can count on when they enter school. If students attempted to resist criminalization by acting offensively, a police officer would hide nearby ready to pounce. In essence, school was simply an extension where young people were criminalized for their style and culture. As a matter of fact, many of the kids Rios described saw no distinction between school and the police officers who were constantly lurking around them, like a “zoo keeper watching over the animals at all times.” Police officers played a cunning “cat-and-mouse game” in which teenage boys remained in constant trepidation of being humiliated, brutalized, or detained. So, this type of control is created by a