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A dream denied : incarceration, recidivism, and young minority men in America /

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Soyer, Michaela, 1980- (Author)
Corporate Author: ProQuest (Firm)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2016]
Subjects:
Juvenile delinquency > United States.
Juvenile delinquents > Behavior modification > United States.
African American juvenile delinquents > Massachusetts > Boston.
African American juvenile delinquents > Illinois > Chicago.
Hispanic American youth > Massachusetts > Boston.
Hispanic American youth > Illinois > Chicago.
Juvenile recidivists > United States.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • The role of agency in the desistance process
  • Two cities, two systems, similar problems: juvenile justice in Boston and Chicago
  • Too little too late juvenile justice as a social service provider
  • The imagination of desistance
  • Weak ties-strong emotions: caring for juvenile offenders in Boston and Chicago
  • The uncertainty of freedom-teenagers' desire for confinement and supervision
  • "I know how to control myself"-autonomy and discipline in the desistance process.