Falling Back : : Incarceration and Transitions to Adulthood among Urban Youth / / Jamie J. Fader.
Jamie J. Fader documents the transition to adulthood for a particularly vulnerable population: young inner-city men of color who have, by the age of eighteen, already been imprisoned. How, she asks, do such precariously situated youth become adult men? What are the sources of change in their lives?...
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| Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Rutgers University Press Backlist eBook-Package 2000-2013 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | New Brunswick, NJ : : Rutgers University Press, , [2013] ©2013 |
| Year of Publication: | 2013 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Critical Issues in Crime and Society
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (278 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- 1. No Love for the Brothers: Youth Incarceration and Reentry in Philadelphia
- 2. "Because That Is the Way You Are": Predictions of Failure and Cultural Assaults Inside Mountain Ridge Academy
- 3. "You Can Take Me Outta the 'Hood, But You Can't Take the 'Hood Outta Me": The Experience of "Reform" at Mountain Ridge Academy
- 4. "Nothing's Changed but Me": Reintegration Plans Meet the Inner City
- 5. "I'm Not a Mama's Boy, I'm My Own Boy": Employment, Hustling, and Adulthood
- 6. "I Just Wanna See a Part of Me That's Never Been Bad": Family, Fatherhood, and Further Offending
- 7. "I'm Finally Becoming the Person I Always Wanted to Be": Masculine Identity, Social Support, and Falling Back
- 8. "I Got Some Unfinished Business": Fictions of Success at Mountain Ridge Academy's Graduation Ceremony
- Conclusion
- Notes
- Index
- About the Author