Burning down the house : the end of juvenile prison /

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Bibliographic Details
Author / Creator:	Bernstein, Nell, author.
Imprint:	New York : The New Press, [2014] ©2014
Description:	1 online resource (xiii, 365 pages)
Language:	English
Subject:	Juvenile justice, Administration of -- United States. Juvenile delinquency -- United States. Juvenile courts -- United States. Juvenile courts. Juvenile delinquency. Juvenile justice, Administration of. United States. Electronic books.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11230362

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Varying Form of Title:	End of juvenile prison
ISBN:	9781595589668 159558966X 9781595589569 1595589562
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references (pages 325-365). Print version record.
Summary:	"In a clear-eyed indictment of the juvenile justice system run amok, award-winning journalist Nell Bernstein shows that there is no right way to lock up a child. The very act of isolation denies delinquent children the thing that is most essential to their growth and rehabilitation: positive relationships with caring adults. Bernstein introduces us to youth across the nation who have suffered violence and psychological torture at the hands of the state. She presents these youths all as fully realized people, not victims. As they describe in their own voices their fight to maintain their humanity and protect their individuality in environments that would deny both, these young people offer a hopeful alternative to the doomed effort to reform a system that should only be dismantled"--Provided by publisher.
Other form:	Print version: Bernstein, Nell. Burning down the house. New York : The New Press, [2014] 9781595589569

Table of Contents:

Prelude: The time is at hand
Introduction
Part I. Teenage wasteland. Inside juvenile prison
Birth of an abomination: the juvenile prison in the nineteenth century
Other people's children
The rise of the super-predator and the decline of the rehabilitative ideal
The fist and the boot: physical abuse in juvenile prisons
An open secret: sexual abuse behind bars
The Hole: solitary confinement of juveniles
"Hurt people hurt people": trauma and incarceration
The things they carry: juvenile reentry
Part II. Burning down the house. A new wave of reform
A better mousetrap: the therapeutic prison
Only connect: rehabilitation happens in the context of relationship
Connection in action: transforming juvenile justice
The real recidivism problem: one hundred years of reform and relapse at the Arthur G. Dozier School for Boys
Against reform: beyond the juvenile prison.

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