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Lost Childhoods : Poverty, Trauma, and Violent Crime in the Post-Welfare Era /

"Lost Childhoods focuses on the life-course histories of 30 young men serving time in the Pennsylvania adult prison system for crimes they committed when they were minors. The narratives of these young men, their friends, and relatives reveal the invisible yet deep-seated connection between the...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Soyer, Michaela, 1980- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2018]
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Punishment and the welfare state
  • The making of life-course persistent offenders
  • The end of childhood: parental drug addiction and violence
  • The weakness of strong ties: extreme poverty and the fracture of close kinship ties
  • Masculinity and violence: physical and emotional abuse at home and in the juvenile justice system
  • Losing children
  • Conclusion and policy implications.