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The politics of prison reform: Juvenile justice policy in Texas, California and Pennsylvania / Cate, Sarah Diane.
- Format:
- Book
- Thesis/Dissertation
- Author/Creator:
- Cate, Sarah Diane, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Political science.
- Public policy.
- Criminology.
- Political Science--Penn dissertations.
- Penn dissertations--Political Science.
- Local Subjects:
- Political science.
- Public policy.
- Criminology.
- Political Science--Penn dissertations.
- Penn dissertations--Political Science.
- Genre:
- Academic theses.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (390 pages)
- Contained In:
- Dissertation Abstracts International 78-04A(E).
- Place of Publication:
- [Philadelphia, Pennsylvania] : University of Pennsylvania ; Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, 2016.
- Language Note:
- English
- System Details:
- Mode of access: World Wide Web.
- text file
- Summary:
- At a moment when there is a great deal of enthusiasm for reforming the prison system in the United States, a number of states across the country have enacted legislation that aims to reduce the number of juveniles sent to state-run prisons. These new policies have focused on expanding community-based alternatives. The three state-level cases on Texas, California and Pennsylvania show that this strategy for reform entrenches punishment at the local level. As counties are given more responsibility to handle juvenile offenders they have contracted out services to the private-sector and invested in expanding jails and punitive conditions of probation. Overall, the reforms have done little to improve the treatment of juveniles caught up in the system. In these states hailed as juvenile justice "models for the nation," youth continue to be incarcerated for minor offenses, subjected to abusive conditions of confinement, and stigmatized. The remarkable convergence of diverse states on this reform strategy can be traced back to past transformative eras of juvenile justice policy. Early developments in the juvenile justice system created the foundation for devolution, privatization, and the persistent belief that juvenile delinquency can be solved through individualized interventions. The development of the juvenile justice system connects to broader trends in social policy. This latest reconfiguration of the juvenile justice system reifies post-New Deal policy development where the state has shifted from providing basic public services to subsidizing the private-sector.
- Notes:
- Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 78-04(E), Section: A.
- Advisors: Marie Gottschalk; Committee members: Adolph Reed; Rogers Smith.
- Department: Political Science.
- Ph.D. University of Pennsylvania 2016.
- Local Notes:
- School code: 0175
- ISBN:
- 9781369338706
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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