Compassionate confinement [electronic resource] : a year in the life of Unit C / Laura S. Abrams, Ben Anderson-Nathe.
2012
HV9104 .A27 2012eb
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Title
Compassionate confinement [electronic resource] : a year in the life of Unit C / Laura S. Abrams, Ben Anderson-Nathe.
Author
Abrams, Laura S.
ISBN
9780813554143 (electronic book)
9780813554136
9780813554129
9780813554136
9780813554129
Imprint
New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press, c2012.
Language
English
Description
1 online resource (xii, 169 p.)
Call Number
HV9104 .A27 2012eb
Dewey Decimal Classification
365/.420973
Summary
"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."--Publisher's website.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Anderson-Nathe, Ben.
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Critical issues in crime and society.
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Table of Contents
History and current tensions in juvenile corrections
The setting
Mixed messages: "Therapy speak" in a correctional milieu
"Take it like a man" : masculinities, treatment, and crime
"Jumping through hoops": identity, self-preservation, and change
On the outs
Rehabilitating rehabilitation: what we learned from Unit C.
The setting
Mixed messages: "Therapy speak" in a correctional milieu
"Take it like a man" : masculinities, treatment, and crime
"Jumping through hoops": identity, self-preservation, and change
On the outs
Rehabilitating rehabilitation: what we learned from Unit C.