South Oak Cliff High School in Dallas, Texans ran experiments in how to diffuse adolescent emotions, according to a March 19, 2009 Dallas Morning News report:
The principal and other staff members at South Oak Cliff High School were supposed to be breaking up fights. Instead, they sent troubled students into a steel utility cage in an athletic locker room to battle it out with bare fists and no head protection, records show. Documents obtained by The Dallas Morning News say the “cage fights” took place between 2003 and 2005. The records don’t say how many fights may have taken place….
Scholars who want further info may wish to consult the school’s Student Code of Conduct and handbook, as well as its information for parents about cheese.
Results of the cage experiments have not yet been formally published in an academic journal.
UPDATE: Investigator Nan Swift suggests: “Scholars who are new to cage fighting may want to bone up with the book Becoming the Natural: My Life In and Out of the Cage, by Randy Couture. Couture is not a native Texan, but in 2007-8 fought a battle in the legal system there. Youth, scholarly or not, and scholars, youthful or not, can learn lessons, valuable or not, from him.