Trapped in a vice
Subtitle: the consequences of confinement for young people
By: Alexandra Cox
Series: Critical issues in crime and society; Critical issues in crime and society
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
Published: 2017
Language: eng
Number of pages: 218
ISBN-13: 9780813570471; 9780813570464
Subjects: Juvenile detention; Juvenile delinquency; Administration of Juvenile justice
Description: "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 the vice. Trapped in a Vice explores the lives of the young people and adults in the criminal justice system, revealing the ways that they struggle to manage the expectations of that system; these stories from the ground level of the justice system demonstrate the complex exchange of policy and practice." -- Publisher's website
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 183-210) and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: Reproducing reforms; title: Ungovernability and worth; title: Racialized repression : barriers to the emancipation of young people at the edges of the system; title: The responsibility trap; title: Change from the inside; title: Conclusion.