Lost Childhoods : Poverty, Trauma, and Violent Crime in the Post-Welfare Era
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Format
Hardback or Cased Book
ISBN-10
0520296702
ISBN-13
9780520296701
Publisher
University of California Press
Imprint
University of California Press
Country of Manufacture
US
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Dec 11th, 2018
Print length
152 Pages
Weight
363 grams
Dimensions
22.90 x 15.20 x 1.80 cms
Product Classification:
Violence in societyCrime & criminologyFamily law: children
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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.
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