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Burning down the house : the end of juvenile prison / Nell Bernstein.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Bernstein, Nell, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Juvenile justice, Administration of--United States.
- Juvenile justice, Administration of.
- Juvenile delinquency--United States.
- Juvenile delinquency.
- Juvenile courts--United States.
- Juvenile courts.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (385 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- 2014.
- New York, New York : New Press, 2014.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- When teenagers scuffle during a basketball game, they are typically benched. But when Will got into it on the court, he and his rival were sprayed in the face at close range by a chemical similar to Mace, denied a shower for twenty-four hours, and then locked in solitary confinement for a month.One in three American children will be arrested by the time they are twenty-three, and many will spend time locked inside horrific detention centers that defy everything we know about how to rehabilitate young offenders. In a clear-eyed indictment of the juvenile justice system run amok, aw
- Contents:
- Author's Note; Prelude; Introduction; 1 inside Juvenile Prison; 2 Birth of An Abomination; 3 Other People's Children; 4 The Rise of the Super-Predator; 5 The Fist and The Boot; 6 An Open Secret; 7 The Hole; 8 "Hurt People Hurt People"; 9 The Things They Carry; 10 A New Wave of Reform; 11 A Better Mousetrap; 12 Only Connect; 13 Connection In Action; 14 The Real Recidivism Problem; 15 Against Reform; Acknowledgments; Notes
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 9781595589668
- 159558966X
- OCLC:
- 879945997
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