RT Article
T1 Trouble with the Child in the Carceral State
JF Social justice
VO 41
IS 3
SP 120
OP 144
A1 Meiners, Erica R. 1969-
LA English
YR 2014
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/1747155365
AB The article discusses the use of the concept of "the child" in the debates surrounding incarcerations, prisons, and the prison industry. Topics include racial, sexual, and gendered inequalities in who qualifies as a child; the use of the concept to justify both prison closings and prison openings; and the differences in treatment of individuals termed children, juveniles, adolescents and adults, such as imprisonment.
K1 Economics
K1 Race discrimination in criminal justice administration
K1 Prison reform
K1 Prisons
K1 Discrimination in juvenile justice administration
K1 Juvenile justice administration
K1 Criminal Justice System
K1 Legal status of children
K1 Correctional institutions