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Compassionate Confinement a Year in the Life of Unit C.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Publication details: New Brunswick, NJ : Rutgers University Press, (c)2013.Description: 1 online resource (188 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780813554143
Subject(s): Genre/Form: LOC classification:
  • HV9104 .C667 2013
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Contents:
Subject: This ethnographic text 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, the authors provide a context for contemporary institutions and highlight some of the system's most troubling tensions. The book provides narratives, observations, case examples, and recommendations for rehabilitating the system. A detailed appendix on conducting field research is useful for individuals in th.
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Title Series Information; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication; Contents; Foreword; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Chapter 1. History and Current Tensions in Juvenile Corrections; Chapter 2. The Setting; Chapter 3. Mixed Messages: ""Therapy Speak in a Correctional Milieu""; Chapter 4. ""Take It Like a Man"": Masculinities, Treatment, and Crime; Chapter 5. ""Jumping Through Hoops"": Identity, Self-Preservation, and Change; Chapter 6. On the Outs; Chapter 7. Rehabilitating Rehabilitation: What We Learned From Unit C; Appendix. Behind the Scenes: Reflections on Field Research in Action.

This ethnographic text 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, the authors provide a context for contemporary institutions and highlight some of the system's most troubling tensions. The book provides narratives, observations, case examples, and recommendations for rehabilitating the system. A detailed appendix on conducting field research is useful for individuals in th.

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