Trapped in a Vice : The Consequences of Confinement for Young People /

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Trapped in a Vice explores the consequences of a juvenile justice system that is aimed at promoting change in the lives of young people, yet ultimately relies upon tools and strategies that enmesh them in a system that they struggle to move beyond. The system, rather than the crimes themselves, is t...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Cox, Alexandra L., 1978- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: New Brunswick, New Jersey : Rutgers University Press, [2017]
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Juvenile justice, Administration of.
Juvenile detention.
Juvenile delinquency.
Delinquance juvenile > États-Unis.
Detention des mineurs > États-Unis.
JUVENILE DELINQUENCY.
Juvenile justice, Administration of > United States.
Juvenile delinquency > United States.
Juvenile detention > United States.
United States.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • Reproducing reforms
  • Ungovernability and worth
  • Racialized repression: barriers to the emancipation of young people at the edges of the system
  • The responsibility trap
  • Change from the inside
  • Conclusion.

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