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For the children? : protecting innocence in a carceral state / Erica R. Meiners.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Meiners, Erica R., author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Children--Effect of imprisonment on--United States.
- Children.
- Youth--Effect of imprisonment on--United States.
- Youth.
- United States.
- Physical Description:
- 255 pages ; 23 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, [2016]
- Summary:
- Placing the child at the heart of the targeted criminalization debate, Erica R. Meiners considers how perceptions of innocence, the safe child, and the future operate in service of the prison industrial complex. For the Children? examines the school-to-prison pipeline and the broader prison industrial complex in the United States, engaging fresh questions in the struggle to build sustainable and flourishing worlds without prisons. Book jacket.
- Contents:
- Introduction
- Childhoods
- Magical age
- The trouble with the child in the carceral state
- Schools and prisons
- Beyond reform: the architecture of prison and school closure
- Restorative justice is not enough
- Adulthoods
- Life and death : re-entry after incarceration
- Registering sex, rethinking safety
- After and now
- Not this: building present futures
- Acknowledgments
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780816692750
- 0816692750
- 9780816692767
- 0816692769
- OCLC:
- 938702920
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