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Representing youth : telling stories, imagining change / Lisa Kelly, Kimberly Ambrose.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Kelly, Lisa, author.
- Ambrose, Kimberly D., author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Child welfare.
- Juvenile justice, Administration of.
- Youth--Legal status, laws, etc.
- Youth.
- Juvenile delinquents.
- United States.
- Juvenile delinquents--United States--Case studies.
- At-risk youth--United States--Case studies.
- At-risk youth.
- Youth--Legal status, laws, etc--United States.
- Juvenile justice, Administration of--United States--Case studies.
- Child welfare--United States--Case studies.
- Problem youth.
- Genre:
- Case studies.
- Physical Description:
- xxv, 471 pages ; 26 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Durham, North Carolina : Carolina Academic Press, [2017]
- Contents:
- State intervention in the lives of youth: foundational considerations
- Officially torn apart
- The deep end of the system
- Michael goes to court for the first time
- Maya in contempt
- Lawyers helping lawyers
- Michael's childhood under state supervision
- Maya in and out of safe harbors: from group care to permanency
- Michael's very secure placement
- Maya and her son exit the system
- Michael goes home.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Lipman Criminology Library Fund.
- ISBN:
- 9781611630077
- 161163007X
- OCLC:
- 995805922
- Publisher Number:
- 99979060511
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