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. On...
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New York :
The New Press,
2014.
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Table of Contents:
- The time is at hand
- Teenage wasteland. Inside juvenile prison ; Birth of an abomination : the juvenile prison in the nineteenth century ; Other people's children ; The rise of the super-predator and the decline of the rehabilitative ideal ; The fist and the boot : physical abuse in juvenile prisons ; An open secret : sexual abuse behind bars ; The Hole : solitary confinement of juveniles ; "Hurt people hurt people" : trauma and incarceration ; The things they carry : juvenile reentry
- Burning down the house. A new wave of reform ; A better mousetrap : the therapeutic prison ; Only connect : rehabilitation happens in the context of relationship ; Connection in action : transforming juvenile justice ; The real recidivism problem : one hundred years of reform and relapse at the Arthur G. Dozier School for Boys ; Against reform : beyond the juvenile prison.
