Alexandra Cox

Trapped in a Vice

The Consequences of Confinement for Young People

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Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Rutgers University Press
• Seitenzahl: 234
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. Januar 2018
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 223mm x 205mm x 14mm
• Gewicht: 327g
• ISBN-13: 9780813570464
• ISBN-10: 0813570468
• Artikelnr.: 48956581

Autorenporträt

Cox, Alexandra

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction 1
1 Reproducing Reforms 13
2 Ungovernability and Worth 33
3 Racialized Repression: Barriers to the Emancipation of Young People at
the Edges of the System 61
4 The Responsibility Trap 98
5 Change from the Inside 127
Conclusion 160
Methodological Appendix 167
Acknowledgments 179
Notes 183
Index 211