Trapped in a Vice : : The Consequences of Confinement for Young People / / Alexandra Cox.

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 t...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Rutgers University Press Complete eBook-Package 2018
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Place / Publishing House:New Brunswick, NJ : : Rutgers University Press, , [2018]
©2018
Year of Publication:2018
Language:English
Series:Critical Issues in Crime and Society
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Physical Description:1 online resource (234 p.) :; 3 figures, 3 tables
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Introduction
  • 1. Reproducing Reforms
  • 2. Ungovernability and Worth
  • 3. Racialized Repression: Barriers to the Emancipation of Young People at the Edges of the System
  • 4. The Responsibility Trap
  • 5. Change from the Inside
  • Conclusion
  • Methodological Appendix
  • Acknowledgments
  • Notes
  • Index
  • About the Author