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Lost childhoods : poverty, trauma, and violent crime in the post-welfare era / Michaela Soyer.
LIBRA HV9104 .S757 2018
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Soyer, Michaela, 1980- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Juvenile delinquency--United States--Psychological aspects.
- Juvenile delinquency.
- Psychic trauma in children.
- Poverty.
- Criminal justice, Administration of.
- Juvenile delinquency--Pennsylvania--Case studies.
- Juvenile delinquency--Psychological aspects.
- Psychological aspects.
- Pennsylvania.
- United States.
- Genre:
- Case studies.
- Physical Description:
- viii, 147 pages ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2018]
- Summary:
- "Lost Childhoods focuses on the life-course histories of 30 young men serving time in the Pennsylvania adult prison system for crimes they committed when they were minors. The narratives of these young men, their friends, and relatives reveal the invisible yet deep-seated connection between the childhood traumas they suffered and the violent criminal behavior they committed during adolescence. By living through domestic violence, poverty, the crack epidemic, and other circumstances, these men were forced to grow up fast, all while familial ties that should have sustained them were broken at each turn. The book goes on to connect large-scale social policy decisions and its effect on family dynamics and demonstrates the limits of punitive justice"--Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- Introduction
- Punishment and the welfare state
- The making of life-course-persistent offenders
- The end of childhood: parental drug addiction and violence
- The weakness of strong ties: extreme poverty and the fracture of close kinship ties
- Masculinity and violence: physical and emotional abuse at home and in the juvenile justice system
- Losing children
- Conclusion and policy implications.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Other Format:
- Online version: Soyer, Michaela, 1980- Lost childhoods.
- ISBN:
- 9780520296701
- 0520296702
- 9780520296718
- 0520296710
- OCLC:
- 1029481907
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