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001 2013043709
003 DLC
005 20140930081308.0
008 131125s2014 nyu b 000 0 eng
010 $a 2013043709
020 $a9781595589569 (hardback)
020 $z9781595589668 (e-book)
040 $aDLC$beng$cDLC$erda$dDLC
042 $apcc
043 $an-us---
050 00 $aHV9104$b.B4243 2014
082 00 $a365/.420973$223
084 $aLAW026010$aLAW013000$aSOC030000$2bisacsh
100 1 $aBernstein, Nell.
245 10 $aBurning down the house :$bthe end of juvenile prison /$cNell Bernstein.
264 1 $aNew York :$bThe New Press,$c2014.
300 $axiii, 365 pages ;$c25 cm
336 $atext$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$2rdamedia
338 $avolume$2rdacarrier
520 $a"When teenagers scuffle during a basketball game, they are typically benched. But when Will got into it on the court, he and his rival were sprayed in the face at close range by a chemical similar to Mace, denied a shower for twenty-four hours, and then locked in solitary confinement for a month. One in three American children will be arrested by the time they are twenty-three, and many will spend time locked inside horrific detention centers that defy everything we know about how to rehabilitate young offenders. In a clear-eyed indictment of the juvenile justice system run amok, award-winning journalist Nell Bernstein shows that there is no right way to lock up a child. The very act of isolation denies delinquent children the thing that is most essential to their growth and rehabilitation: positive relationships with caring adults. Bernstein introduces us to youth across the nation who have suffered violence and psychological torture at the hands of the state. She presents these youths all as fully realized people, not victims. As they describe in their own voices their fight to maintain their humanity and protect their individuality in environments that would deny both, these young people offer a hopeful alternative to the doomed effort to reform a system that should only be dismantled. Burning Down the House is a clarion call to shut down our nation's brutal and counterproductive juvenile prisons and bring our children home. "--$cProvided by publisher.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references.
650 0 $aJuvenile justice, Administration of$zUnited States.
650 0 $aJuvenile delinquency$zUnited States.
650 0 $aJuvenile courts$zUnited States.
650 7 $aLAW / Criminal Law / Juvenile Offenders.$2bisacsh
650 7 $aLAW / Civil Rights.$2bisacsh
650 7 $aSOCIAL SCIENCE / Penology.$2bisacsh