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Compassionate confinement : a year in the life of Unit C / Laura S. Abrams, Ben Anderson-Nathe.
LIBRA HV9104 .A27 2012
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Abrams, Laura S.
- Series:
- Critical issues in crime and society
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Juvenile corrections--United States.
- Juvenile corrections.
- Juvenile detention homes.
- United States.
- Juvenile detention homes--United States--Case studies.
- Juvenile delinquents--Rehabilitation--United States.
- Juvenile delinquents.
- Juvenile delinquents--Rehabilitation.
- Genre:
- Case studies.
- Physical Description:
- xii, 169 pages ; 23 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press, [2012]
- Summary:
- Compassionate Confinement brings to light the challenges and complexities inherent in the U.S system of juvenile corrections. Building on over a year of fieldwork at a boys' residential facility, Laura S. Abrams and Ben Anderson-Nathe provide a context for contemporary institutions and highlight some of the system's most troubling tensions.
- This ethnographic text utilizes narratives, observations, and case examples to illustrate the strain between treatment and correctional paradigms and the mixed messages regarding gender identity and masculinity that the youths are expected to navigate. Within this context the authors use the boy's stories to show various and unexpected pathways toward behavior change. Compassionate Confinement concludes with recommendations for rehabilitating this notoriously troubled system in light of the experiences of its most vulnerable stakeholders. Book jacket.
- Contents:
- History and current tensions in juvenile corrections
- The setting
- Mixed messages: "Therapy speak" in a correctional milieu
- "Take it like a man" : masculinities, treatment, and crime
- "Jumping through hoops": identity, self-preservation, and change
- On the outs
- Rehabilitating rehabilitation: what we learned from Unit C.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780813554136
- 0813554136
- 9780813554129
- 0813554128
- 9780813554143
- 0813554144
- OCLC:
- 776142353
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