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From home, to school, to juvenile detention center, and back again. Follow the lives of fifty Latina girls living forty miles outside of Los Angeles, California, as they are inadvertently caught up in the school-to-prison pipeline. Their experiences in the connected programs between “El Valle” Juvenile Detention Center and “Legacy” Community School reveal the accelerated fusion of California schools and institutions of confinement. The girls participate in well-intentioned wraparound services designed to provide them with support at home, at school, and in the detention center. But these services may more closely resemble the phenomenon of wraparound incarceration, in which students, despite leaving the actual detention center, cannot escape the surveillance of formal detention, and are thereby slowly pushed away from traditional schooling and a productive life course.
Price: $95.00
Pages: 200
Publisher: University of California Press
Imprint: University of California Press
Series: Gender and Justice
Publication Date:
09 August 2016
Trim Size: 9.00 X 6.00 in
ISBN: 9780520284876
Format: Hardcover
"By centering the compelling testimonials of 30 young Latinas, Flores details the multiple impacts and varied forms of gendered, socioeconomic, and racialized violence the participants encounter at home, school, in intimate relationships, and while in detention. Especially significant are the tolls that trauma and inequality take and the ways the participants are caught up in the California juvenile justice system, despite its intended focus on rehabilitation. The book ends with concrete experiences from Latinas who have been able to leave the criminal justice system and those who have not—highlighting Flores's main finding that increased contact with criminal justice agencies reduces the possibilities of escaping from them."
Jerry Flores is Assistant Professor of Sociology at the University of Toronto.
Acknowledgments
Introduction
1. Trouble in the Home, and First Contact with the Criminal Justice System
2. Life behind Bars
3. Legacy Community School and the New Face of Alternative Education
4. School, Institutionalization, and Exclusionary Punishment
5. Hooks for Change and Snares for Confinement
Conclusion
Appendix A: “Who Is Th is Man in the Classroom?”
Appendix B: Demographic Information
Notes
References
Index
Introduction
1. Trouble in the Home, and First Contact with the Criminal Justice System
2. Life behind Bars
3. Legacy Community School and the New Face of Alternative Education
4. School, Institutionalization, and Exclusionary Punishment
5. Hooks for Change and Snares for Confinement
Conclusion
Appendix A: “Who Is Th is Man in the Classroom?”
Appendix B: Demographic Information
Notes
References
Index