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Chargement... Children of the State: Stories of Survival and Hope in the Juvenile Justice Systempar Jeff Hobbs
   Aucun Actuellement, il n'y a pas de discussions au sujet de ce livre.  RachelRachelRachel | Nov 21, 2023 |   As stated in the summary, Mr. Hobbs focuses on three different stories that follow the the day-to-day lives and challenges of juveniles living in and individuals working in the juvenile justice system in San Francisco, Delaware, and New York City. This non-fiction novel would be a good read for anyone contemplating a career in the juvenile justice system, or anyone curious about the system in general. (  ) AndreaHelena | Feb 23, 2023 |  ) BridgetteS | Feb 12, 2023 | Sociological research can be written as formal statistical studies for scholarly journals, or as stories people told the researcher. This is a book of stories. We visit three programs for teenagers with criminal records: a prisonlike one in Delaware, one that tries to be more like prep school in California, and a day program for teens living with a parent in New York. We see the two on the East Coast through the eyes of male students, the one in California through the eyes of a female teacher. Hobbs tells their stories in a believable way, with an explanation of what is fact and what is fiction. The stories aren't rosy, Neither are they hopeless. One of the students asks for more challenging course material at the reform school (yes, they are schools, not prisons for kids), qualifies for admission to college, but soon drops out of college--for now--to take an entry level job. The other washes out; though he has a concerned father and makes friends in an enlightened program that seems to be helping his friends, because he misses his home town. The teacher gets through the year, frustrated that she's not in a position to make more of a difference for her students. The intended audience for this book are adults. Hobbs' phrase "early intervention" seems to presuppose government employees, though employers seem more likely to help teenagers. An additional audience may be teenagers themselves. Hobbs' decision to focus on introvert teenagers creates two readable, relatable stories that may warn teenagers against criminal behavior and may also prepare them to work or go to college with ex-offenders. ( ) PriscillaKing | Dec 3, 2022 | aucune critique | ajouter une critique
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"Very little has been written about juvenile justice. In the greater consciousness, the word "justice" in this context has been leeched of meaning; it just signifies prison for kids. But to those living and working in various capacities within that system, the word "justice" holds a sepulchral gravity. In Children of the State, bestselling author of The Short and Tragic Life of Robert Peace Jeff Hobbs presents three different true stories that show the day-to-day life and the existential challenges faced by those living and working in juvenile programs: educators, counselors, administrators, and-most importantly-children. While serving a year-long detention in Wilmington, DE-perennially one of the violent crime capitols of America-a bright but stunted young man considers the benefits and also the immense costs of striving for college acceptance while imprisoned. A career juvenile hall English Language Arts teacher struggles to align the small moments of wonder in her work alongside its overall statistical futility, all while the city government presumes to design a new juvenile system without cinderblocks-and possibly without those teaching in the current system. A territorial fistfight in Paterson, NJ is characterized by the media as a hate crime, and the boy held accountable for that crime seeks redemption and friendship in a rigorous Life & Professional Skills class in lower Manhattan. These stories are followed to their knotty conclusions in triptych form. In chronicling the work of this constellation of people trying to accomplish good work in abjectly horrible systems and circumstances, Children of the State asks: What should society do with young people who have made terrible decisions? For many kids, a woeful mistake made at age thirteen or fourteen-often as a result of external factors bearing upon a biologically immature brain-will resonate through the rest of their lives, making high school difficult, college nearly impossible, and a middle class life a foolish fantasy. To observe these missteps and raw challenges and small triumphs from shoulder height, through the experiences of thinking, feeling, poignant young people, is to be moved to consider altering the fixed narrative currently laid out of them. As Hobbs demonstrates in piercing, vivid prose: No one so young should ever be considered irredeemable"-- Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
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This book offers a look at the juvenile justice system in a couple different U.S. states, through the in-depth stories of some of the teens in the system.
I liked it overall, especially the parts that detailed how the education system worked in the different facilities.
However, I felt it was a little long and repetitive at times, and there was a lot of profanity - and not all of it was as quotes, which I always find unprofessional. God's and Jesus' names were used as exclamations occasionally in the quotes from students.
I received a copy of this from the publisher via NetGalley. (