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I don't wish nobody to have a life like mine : tales of kids in adult lockup /

Since the early 1990s, thanks to inflamed rhetoric in the media about "superpredators" and a wave of get-tough-on-crime laws, the number of juveniles in prison has risen by 35 percent, according to the U.S. Department of Justice, and their placement in adult prison has increased by 208 per...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Chura, David, 1948-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Boston : Beacon Press, ©2010.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • The human stain
  • From the projects to the condos
  • Prison birthday
  • Pinups
  • Ghost story
  • Shit-eating grin
  • Addicted
  • Mirror, mirror
  • Children of disappointment
  • The things they carried
  • Mothers of invention
  • Word
  • Man-child
  • Chicks in the big house
  • Meet the author
  • Visiting room
  • Grand opening
  • Safety and security.