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Winner of the 2019 Outstanding Book Award - ASC DCCSJ
Trapped in a Vice explores the consequences of a juvenile justice system that is aimed at promoting change in the lives of young people, yet ultimately relies upon tools and strategies that enmesh them in a system that they struggle to move beyond. The system, rather than the crimes themselves, is the vice. Trapped in a Vice explores the lives of the young people and adults in the criminal justice system, revealing the ways that they struggle to manage the expectations of that system; these stories from the ground level of the justice system demonstrate the complex exchange of policy and practice.
Contents
Introduction 1
1 Reproducing Reforms 13
2 Ungovernability and Worth 33
3 Racialized Repression: Barriers to the Emancipation of Young People at the Edges of the System 61
4 The Responsibility Trap 98
5 Change from the Inside 127
Conclusion 160
Methodological Appendix 167
Acknowledgments 179
Notes 183
Index 211
