Trapped in a Vice: The Consequences of Confinement for Young People
by Alexandra Cox
Rutgers University Press, 2018
Cloth: 978-0-8135-7047-1 | Paper: 978-0-8135-7046-4 | eISBN: 978-0-8135-7565-0 (ePub NK) | eISBN: 978-0-8135-9418-7 (Kindle) | eISBN: 978-0-8135-7048-8 (PDF)
Library of Congress Classification HV9104.C625 2017
Dewey Decimal Classification 364.360973
ABOUT THIS BOOK
Winner of the 2019 Outstanding Book Award - ASC DCCSJ
Trapped in a Vice explores the consequences of a juvenile justice system that is aimed at promoting change in the lives of young people, yet ultimately relies upon tools and strategies that enmesh them in a system that they struggle to move beyond. The system, rather than the crimes themselves, is the vice. Trapped in a Vice explores the lives of the young people and adults in the criminal justice system, revealing the ways that they struggle to manage the expectations of that system; these stories from the ground level of the justice system demonstrate the complex exchange of policy and practice.
Trapped in a Vice explores the consequences of a juvenile justice system that is aimed at promoting change in the lives of young people, yet ultimately relies upon tools and strategies that enmesh them in a system that they struggle to move beyond. The system, rather than the crimes themselves, is the vice. Trapped in a Vice explores the lives of the young people and adults in the criminal justice system, revealing the ways that they struggle to manage the expectations of that system; these stories from the ground level of the justice system demonstrate the complex exchange of policy and practice.
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