Author: | Alexandra Cox | ISBN: | 9780813575650 |
Publisher: | Rutgers University Press | Publication: | January 30, 2018 |
Imprint: | Rutgers University Press | Language: | English |
Author: | Alexandra Cox |
ISBN: | 9780813575650 |
Publisher: | Rutgers University Press |
Publication: | January 30, 2018 |
Imprint: | Rutgers University Press |
Language: | English |
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.
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.