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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.
Price: $95.00
Pages: 152
Publisher: University of California Press
Imprint: University of California Press
Publication Date:
11 December 2018
Trim Size: 9.00 X 6.00 in
ISBN: 9780520296701
Format: Hardcover
"This book makes a significant contribution to the study of adolescents by examining how the many factors of childhood can affect the criminal behavior in the future."
Michaela Soyer is Assistant Professor of Sociology at Hunter College and author of A Dream Denied: Incarceration, Recidivism, and Young Minority Men.
Acknowledgments
introduction
1. punishment and the welfare state
2. the making of life-course-persistent offenders
3. the end of childhood: parental drug addiction
and violence
4. the weakness of strong ties: extreme poverty
and the fracture of close kinship ties
5. masculinity and violence: physical and
emotional abuse at home and in the juvenile
justice system
6. losing children
conclusion and policy implications
Appendix I
Appendix II
Notes
References
Index
introduction
1. punishment and the welfare state
2. the making of life-course-persistent offenders
3. the end of childhood: parental drug addiction
and violence
4. the weakness of strong ties: extreme poverty
and the fracture of close kinship ties
5. masculinity and violence: physical and
emotional abuse at home and in the juvenile
justice system
6. losing children
conclusion and policy implications
Appendix I
Appendix II
Notes
References
Index