Trapped in a Vice

The Consequences of Confinement for Young People

Alexandra Cox (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

234 Seiten

2018
Rutgers University Press (Verlag)
978-0-8135-7046-4 (ISBN)

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Trapped in a Vice explores the lives of the young people 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.

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.

ALEXANDRA COX is a lecturer in sociology at the University of Essex in Colchester, England.

Introduction 1
1 Reproducing Reforms 13
2 Ungovernability and Worth 33
3 Racialized Repression: Barriers to the Emancipation of Young People at the Edges of the System 61
4 The Responsibility Trap 98
5 Change from the Inside 127
Conclusion 160
Methodological Appendix 167
Acknowledgments 179
Notes 183
Index 211

Erscheinungsdatum	13.02.2018
Reihe/Serie	Critical Issues in Crime and Society
Zusatzinfo	3 figures, 3 tables
Verlagsort	New Brunswick NJ
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Gewicht	340 g
Themenwelt	Recht / Steuern ► EU / Internationales Recht
	Recht / Steuern ► Strafrecht ► Kriminologie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
ISBN-10	0-8135-7046-8 / 0813570468
ISBN-13	978-0-8135-7046-4 / 9780813570464
Zustand	Neuware