Compassionate Confinement : A Year in the Life of Unit C

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This ethnographic text brings to light the challenges and complexities inherent in the U.S. system of juvenile corrections. Building on over a year of field work at a boys' residential facility, the authors provide a context for contemporary institutions and highlight some of the system's...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Abrams, Laura S.
Otros Autores: Anderson-Nathe, Ben
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New Brunswick, NJ : Rutgers University Press, 2013.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Juvenile detention homes.
Juvenile delinquents > Rehabilitation.
Juvenile corrections.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Sociology > General.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Penology.
Jeunes delinquants > Rehabilitation > États-Unis.
Centres pour jeunes delinquants > États-Unis > Études de cas.
Services correctionnels pour mineurs > États-Unis.
Juvenile delinquents > Rehabilitation > United States.
Juvenile detention homes > United States > Case studies.
Juvenile corrections > United States.
United States.
Case studies.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Title Series Information; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication; Contents; Foreword; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Chapter 1. History and Current Tensions in Juvenile Corrections; Chapter 2. The Setting; Chapter 3. Mixed Messages: Therapy Speak in a Correctional Milieu
  • Chapter 4. Take It Like a Man: Masculinities, Treatment, and Crime; Chapter 5. Jumping Through Hoops: Identity, Self-Preservation, and Change; Chapter 6. On the Outs; Chapter 7. Rehabilitating Rehabilitation: What We Learned From Unit C; Appendix. Behind the Scenes: Reflections on Field Research in Action.

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