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LAST ONE OVER THE WALL: The Massachusetts Experiment in Closing Reform Schools

by JEROME G. MILLER
The Ohio State University Press, 1998
Cloth: 978-0-8142-0534-1 | Paper: 978-0-8142-0758-1
Library of Congress Classification HV9105.M4M54 1998
Dewey Decimal Classification 365.42

TOC

  • Contents 
    • PREFACE TO THE SECOND EDITION
    • PREFACE
    • ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
    • I 
    • Going to Massachusetts
      • 1 
      • Juvenile Justice Rhetoric
      • 2 
      • A Preview of Deinstitutionalization
      • 3 
      • Background
      • 4 
      • The Invitation
      • 5 
      • Punishment vs. Restoration
    • II 
    • A Brief Tour
      • 6 
      • Waiting Rooms
      • 7 
      • Warehouses
    • III 
    • Reforming Reform Schools
      • 8 
      • Finding a Direction
      • 9 
      • Reverberations
      • 10 
      • Anticipating the Worst
      • 11 
      • Doing Least Harm: Humane Institutions
    • IV 
    • The Alternative System
      • 12 
      • Deinstitutionalization
      • 13 
      • Community-based Alternatives
      • 14 
      • The Myth of “Violent” Teenagers
      • 15 
      • Side Effects: The County Training Schools
      • 16 
      • Backlash
      • 17 
      • Results: After Almost All Is Said and Done
    • V 
    • Ponderings on Criminals and Criminologists
      • 18 
      • Of Psychopaths and Allopaths
      • 19 
      • In Search of Aliens
    • NOTES
    • BIBLIOGRAPHY
    • INDEX
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