RT Book
T1 A dream denied: incarceration, recidivism, and young minority men in America
A1 Soyer, Michaela 1980-
LA English
PP Oakland, California
PB University of California Press
YR 2016
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/1620979101
AB "'A Dream Denied' shows how the narrative of American Dream shapes the offending trajectories of twenty-three young Latino and African American men in Boston and Chicago. Believing in the American Dream helps the teenagers to cope with the pains of incarceration. However, without the ability to experience themselves as creative actors, reproducing the rhetoric of American meritocracy leaves the teenagers unprepared to negotiate the complex and frustrating process of desistance and reentry
AB The role of agency in the desistance process -- Two cities, two systems, similar problems: juvenile justice in Boston and Chicago -- Too little too late juvenile justice as a social service provider -- The imagination of desistance -- Weak ties-strong emotions: caring for juvenile offenders in Boston and Chicago -- The uncertainty of freedom-teenagers' desire for confinement and supervision -- "I know how to control myself"-autonomy and discipline in the desistance process
NO Includes bibliographical references (pages 155-167) and index
CN HV9104
SN 9780520290440
SN 9780520290457
K1 Juvenile Delinquency : United States
K1 Juvenile delinquents : Behavior modification : United States
K1 African American juvenile delinquents : Massachusetts : Boston
K1 African American juvenile delinquents : Illinois : Chicago
K1 Hispanic American Youth : Massachusetts : Boston
K1 Hispanic American Youth : Illinois : Chicago
K1 USA : Schwarze : Lateinamerikaner : Jugendlicher Täter : Rückfall : American dream