Compassionate Confinement

Compassionate Confinement
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Publisher : Rutgers University Press
Total Pages : 189
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ISBN-10 : 9780813554143
ISBN-13 : 0813554144
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Book Synopsis Compassionate Confinement by : Laura S. Abrams

Download or read book Compassionate Confinement written by Laura S. Abrams and published by Rutgers University Press. This book was released on 2013-02-01 with total page 189 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: To date, knowledge of the everyday world of the juvenile correction institution has been extremely sparse. Compassionate Confinement brings to light the challenges and complexities inherent in the U.S. system of juvenile corrections. Building on over a year of field work at a boys’ residential facility, Laura S. Abrams and Ben Anderson-Nathe provide a context for contemporary institutions and highlight some of the system’s most troubling tensions. This ethnographic text utilizes narratives, observations, and case examples to illustrate the strain between treatment and correctional paradigms and the mixed messages regarding gender identity and masculinity that the youths are expected to navigate. Within this context, the authors use the boys’ stories to show various and unexpected pathways toward behavior change. While some residents clearly seized opportunities for self-transformation, others manipulated their way toward release, and faced substantial challenges when they returned home. Compassionate Confinement concludes with recommendations for rehabilitating this notoriously troubled system in light of the experiences of its most vulnerable stakeholders.


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