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A free ebook version of this title is available through Luminos,
University of California Press's Open Access publishing program.
Visit www.luminosoa.org to learn more. Seeking to shed light on how
we might end mass incarceration, The Price of Freedom compares the
histories and goals of the American and German justice systems.
Drawing on repeated in-depth interviews with incarcerated young men
in the United States and Germany, Michaela Soyer argues that the
apparent relative lenience of the German criminal justice system is
actually founded on the violent enforcement of cultural homogeneity
at the hands of the German welfare state. Demonstrating how both
societies have constructed a racialized underclass of outsiders
over time, this book emphasizes that criminal justice reformers in
the United States need to move beyond European models in order to
build a truly just, diverse society.
Young minority men are often portrayed in popular media as victims
of poverty and discrimination. A Dream Denied delves deeper,
investigating the social and cultural implications of the "American
dream" narrative for young minority men in the juvenile justice
systems in Boston and Chicago. This book connects young male
offenders' cycles of desistance and recidivism with normative
assumptions about success and failure in American society, exposing
a tragic disconnect between structural reality and juvenile justice
policy. This book challenges us to reconsider how American society
relates to its most vulnerable members, how it responds to their
personal failures, and how it promises them a better future.
Lost Childhoods focuses on the life-course histories of thirty
young men serving time in the Pennsylvania adult prison system for
crimes they committed when they were minors. The narratives of
these young men, their friends, and relatives reveal the invisible
yet deep-seated connection between the childhood traumas they
suffered and the violent criminal behavior they committed during
adolescence. By living through domestic violence, poverty, the
crack epidemic, and other circumstances, these men were forced to
grow up fast all while familial ties that should have sustained
them were broken at each turn. The book goes on to connect
large-scale social policy decisions and their effects on family
dynamics and demonstrates the limits of punitive justice.
Lost Childhoods focuses on the life-course histories of thirty
young men serving time in the Pennsylvania adult prison system for
crimes they committed when they were minors. The narratives of
these young men, their friends, and relatives reveal the invisible
yet deep-seated connection between the childhood traumas they
suffered and the violent criminal behavior they committed during
adolescence. By living through domestic violence, poverty, the
crack epidemic, and other circumstances, these men were forced to
grow up fast all while familial ties that should have sustained
them were broken at each turn. The book goes on to connect
large-scale social policy decisions and their effects on family
dynamics and demonstrates the limits of punitive justice.
Young minority men are often portrayed in popular media as victims
of poverty and discrimination. A Dream Denied delves deeper,
investigating the social and cultural implications of the "American
dream" narrative for young minority men in the juvenile justice
systems in Boston and Chicago. This book connects young male
offenders' cycles of desistance and recidivism with normative
assumptions about success and failure in American society, exposing
a tragic disconnect between structural reality and juvenile justice
policy. This book challenges us to reconsider how American society
relates to its most vulnerable members, how it responds to their
personal failures, and how it promises them a better future.
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