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Burning Down the House : the End of Juvenile Prison.

When teenagers scuffle during a basketball game, they are typically benched. But when Will got into it on the court, he and his rival were sprayed in the face at close range by a chemical similar to Mace, denied a shower for twenty-four hours, and then locked in solitary confinement for a month. One...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Bernstein, Nell
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : New Press, The, 2014.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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Sumario:When teenagers scuffle during a basketball game, they are typically benched. But when Will got into it on the court, he and his rival were sprayed in the face at close range by a chemical similar to Mace, denied a shower for twenty-four hours, and then locked in solitary confinement for a month. One in three American children will be arrested by the time they are twenty-three, and many will spend time locked inside horrific detention centers that defy everything we know about how to rehabilitate young offenders. In a clear-eyed indictment of the juvenile justice system run amok, award-winning j.
Descripción Física:1 online resource (385 pages)
ISBN:9781595589668
159558966X