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Author
Series
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
What started out as a joke landed seventeen-year-old Dillon Yates in a lockdown juvenile facility in Boston Harbor. When he set up a prank Twitter account for his vice principal, he never dreamed he could be brought up on criminal charges, but that's exactly what happened. This is Blackburn, Massachusetts, where zero tolerance for minors is a way of life. Leading the movement is tough-as-nails Judge Joe Scali, who gives speeches about getting tough...
Author
Publisher
Essential Library
Pub. Date
[2020]
Lexile measure
1160L
Physical Desc
1 online resource (112 pages) : illustrations (some color).
Language
English
Description
Examines the history of for-profit prisons in the United States justice system, exploring scandals like the "Kids for Cash" scheme in Pennsylvania and gerrymandering. Discusses whether or not for-profit prisons have a future in the American justice system. Includes a glossary.
Author
Publisher
Berrett-Koehler Publishers, BK Currents Books
Pub. Date
[2014]
Physical Desc
vii, 228 pages ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
"35,000 Americans are arrested every day, and the number of prisoners has increased 500% over the last three decades. Truth out Executive Director Maya Schenwar shows that incarceration actually doesn't deter crime, looks at its devastating effect on families and communities, and offers more humane and more effective alternatives"--
4) The bezzle
Author
Publisher
Tor Publishing Group
Pub. Date
[2024]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
230 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
The year is 2006. Martin Hench is at the top of his game as a self-employed forensic accountant, a veteran of the long guerrilla war between people who want to hide money, and people who want to find it. He spends his downtime on Catalina Island, where scenic, imported bison wander the bluffs and frozen, reheated fast food burgers cost twenty-five dollars. Wait, what? When Marty disrupts a seemingly innocuous scheme during a vacation on Catalina Island,...
Author
Publisher
Hachette Books
Pub. Date
2018.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
xv, 254 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"A bold new voice from the frontlines of the criminal justice reform movement. Like so many women before her and so many women yet to come, Donna Hylton's early life was a nightmare of abuse that left her feeling alone and convinced of her worthlessness. In 1986, she took part in a horrific act and was sentenced to 25 years to life for kidnapping and second-degree murder. It seemed that Donna had reached the end--at age 19, due to her own mistakes...
9) Juvie
Author
Pub. Date
2013
Edition
1st ed.
Lexile measure
830L
Physical Desc
311 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Working hard to be a contributing member of her family, Sadie accepts blame for her sister's drug deal to keep the latter out of prison and finds everything she worked for threatened by a six-month sentence that tests her sister's character.
11) Youth violence
Series
Pub. Date
1992
Physical Desc
263 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Publisher
Praeger, an imprint of ABC-CLIO, LLC
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
viii, 262 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"This book provides a comprehensive, cutting-edge look at the problems that impact the way we conduct intervention and treatment for youth in crisis today--an indispensable resource for practitioners, students, researchers, policymakers, and faculty working in the area of juvenile justice. Provides insights into juvenile justice from contributors and editors who have extensive experience in teaching, researching, and writing on the subject. Represents...
Author
Publisher
Flatiron Books
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
323 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"The United States, alone, locks up a quarter of the world's incarcerated people. And yet apart from clichés-paying a debt to society; you do the crime, you do the time-there is little sense collectively in America what constitutes retribution or atonement. We don't actually know why we punish. Ben Austen's powerful exploration offers a behind-the-scenes look at the process of parole. Told through the portraits of two men imprisoned for murder, and...
14) Juvenile crime
Series
Pub. Date
2012
Physical Desc
237 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.
Language
English
15) Tarnished dreams
Author
Publisher
North Star Press of St. Cloud, Inc
Pub. Date
2014.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
xi, 226 pages ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
"Thrilled to have my daughter back after she ran away from home in 2009, I catered to her every whim. I heard the accusations all over my small Minnesota community about how much she lied, but my blinding love made me believe every word she uttered. Discovering my high school-age daughter was sending topless photos of herself electronically made my stomach lurch. Hearing the police say it was a crime left me speechless. A year later, I began to see...
Author
Pub. Date
2013
Physical Desc
xiv, 256 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Jamie J. Fader documents the transition to adulthood for a particularly vulnerable population: young inner-city men of color who have, by the age of eighteen, already been imprisoned. How, she asks, do such precariously situated youth become adult men? What are the sources of change in their lives? Falling Back is based on over three years of ethnographic research with black and Latino males on the cusp of adulthood and incarcerated at a rural reform...
18) Kids for cash
Publisher
Kino Lorber, Inc
Pub. Date
[2014]
Edition
Widescreen version.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (102 min.) : sound, color with black and white sequences ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Examines the "kids for cash" scandal, in which two Luzerne County, Pennsylvania judges had set up a system by which they would end up receiving $2.6 million from privately-owned juvenile detention centers for convicting more than 3,000 youths for mostly minor offenses.