Compassionate Confinement: A Year in the Life of Unit C (Critical Issues in Crime and Society)

by Laura S. Abrams (Author), Ben Anderson-Nathe (Author)

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  Hardcover
  2013

  $170.65

  Brings to light the challenges and complexities inherent in the US system of juvenile corrections. Building on over a year of field work at a boys' residential facility, the authors provide a context for contemporary institutions and highlight some of the system's most troubling tensions. The book provides narratives, observations, case examples, and recommendations for rehabilitating the system.