A Dream Denied (eBook)

Incarceration, Recidivism, and Young Minority Men in America

Michaela Soyer (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2016
184 Seiten
University of California Press (Verlag)
978-0-520-96461-7 (ISBN)

Infos

Young minority men are often portrayed in popular media as victims of poverty and discrimination. A Dream Denieddelves deeper, investigating the social and cultural implications of the ';American dream' narrative for young minority men in the juvenile justice systems in Boston and Chicago. This book connects young male offenders' cycles of desistance and recidivism with normative assumptions about success and failure in American society, exposing a tragic disconnect between structural reality and juvenile justice policy. This book challenges us to reconsider how American society relates to its most vulnerable members, how it responds to their personal failures, and how it promises them a better future.

Inhalt

Acknowledgments
List of Abbreviations
Introduction

1. The Role of Agency in the Desistance Process
2. Two Cities, Two Systems, Similar Problems: Juvenile Justice in Boston and Chicago
3. Too Little Too Late: Juvenile Justice as a Social Service Provider
4. Imagining Desistance
5. Weak Ties—Strong Emotions: Caring for Juvenile Off enders in Boston and Chicago
6. The Uncertainty of Freedom: Teenagers’ Desire for Confinement and Supervision
7. “I know how to control myself ”: Autonomy and Discipline in the Desistance Process

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 12.7.2016
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Recht / Steuern ► EU / Internationales Recht
• Themenwelt: Recht / Steuern ► Strafrecht ► Besonderes Strafrecht
• Themenwelt: Recht / Steuern ► Strafrecht ► Kriminologie
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
• Schlagworte: African American • American • American dream • court • criminal justice • Criminal Law • Culture • Discrimination • Hispanic • Justice • Justice system • Juvenile delinquents • juvenile detention • Juvenile justice • Juvenile offenders • Law and Order • Legal system • men in prison • Minorities • Minority • Minority men • People of Color • poc • Police • Poverty • Prison system • Race relations • Racism • Recidivism • Social Studies • True Crime • young men
• ISBN-10: 0-520-96461-6 / 0520964616
• ISBN-13: 978-0-520-96461-7 / 9780520964617