Title: Weeping in the playtime of others : America's incarcerated children /
Authors: Wooden, Kenneth.; Heide, Kathleen M.
Publisher: Ohio State University Press,
Year: 2000
Subjects: Juvenile detention homes United States; Juvenile justice, Administration of United States; Imprisonment United States
Abstract: "From the summer of 1972 through 1975, Kenneth Wooden visited correctional facilities in thirty states where juveniles between the ages of five and sixteen were being held. During his research he uncovered an astoundingly high incidence of emotional and physical abuse, torture, and commercial exploitation of the children by their keepers, individuals who received public funds to care for them. After observing the brutal treatment of these youths, a significant number of whom were not criminals but runaways or mentally disabled, Wooden was compelled to make public the conditions in which these children lived in Weeping in the Playtime of Others."--Jacket.
Contents: Foreword / Kathleen M. Heide -- Pt. 1. The Microcosm and the National Dilemma -- Pt. 2. Pathways to Oblivion -- Pt. 3. Conditions in Youth Jails: A National Profile -- Pt. 4. The Politics of Corruption -- Pt. 5. Alternatives and a New Bill of Rights for Children.