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Author Soyer, Michaela, 1980- author.

Title A dream denied : incarceration, recidivism, and young minority men in America / Michaela Soyer
Published Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2016]

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Description 1 online resource (xi, 172 pages)
Contents The role of agency in the desistance process -- Two cities, two systems, similar problems: juvenile justice in Boston and Chicago -- Too little too late juvenile justice as a social service provider -- The imagination of desistance -- Weak ties-strong emotions: caring for juvenile offenders in Boston and Chicago -- The uncertainty of freedom-teenagers' desire for confinement and supervision -- "I know how to control myself"-autonomy and discipline in the desistance process
Summary "'A Dream Denied' shows how the narrative of American Dream shapes the offending trajectories of twenty-three young Latino and African American men in Boston and Chicago. Believing in the American Dream helps the teenagers to cope with the pains of incarceration. However, without the ability to experience themselves as creative actors, reproducing the rhetoric of American meritocracy leaves the teenagers unprepared to negotiate the complex and frustrating process of desistance and reentry
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes In English
Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on July 26, 2016)
Subject Juvenile delinquency -- United States
Juvenile delinquents -- Behavior modification -- United States
African American juvenile delinquents -- Massachusetts -- Boston
African American juvenile delinquents -- Illinois -- Chicago
Hispanic American youth -- Massachusetts -- Boston
Hispanic American youth -- Illinois -- Chicago
Juvenile recidivists -- United States
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Criminology.
African American juvenile delinquents
Hispanic American youth
Juvenile delinquency
Juvenile delinquents -- Behavior modification
Juvenile recidivists
Illinois -- Chicago
Massachusetts -- Boston
United States
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2016005504
ISBN 9780520964617
0520964616