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Lost Childhoods: Poverty, Trauma, and Violent Crime in the Post-Welfare Era

Lost Childhoods: Poverty, Trauma, and Violent Crime in the Post-Welfare Era

Soyer, Michaela

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CriminologyGeneral Law

ISBN10: 0520296710
ISBN13: 9780520296718
Publisher: Univ Of California Pr
Published: Dec 11 2018
Pages: 152
Weight: 0.50
Height: 0.60 Width: 5.90 Depth: 8.90
Language: English
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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