Compassionate Confinement

A Year in the Life of Unit C

By: Laura S. Abrams, Ben Anderson-Nathe

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Paperback | 1 February 2013

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To date, knowledge of the everyday world of the juvenile correction institution has been extremely sparse. Compassionate Confinement brings to light the challenges and complexities inherent in the U.S. system of juvenile corrections. Building on over a year of field work at a boys’ residential facility, Laura S. Abrams and Ben Anderson-Nathe provide a context for contemporary institutions and highlight some of the system’s most troubling tensions.

This ethnographic text utilizes narratives, observations, and case examples to illustrate the strain between treatment and correctional paradigms and the mixed messages regarding gender identity and masculinity that the youths are expected to navigate. Within this context, the authors use the boys’ stories to show various and unexpected pathways toward behavior change. While some residents clearly seized opportunities for self-transformation, others manipulated their way toward release, and faced substantial challenges when they returned home.

Compassionate Confinement concludes with recommendations for rehabilitating this notoriously troubled system in light of the experiences of its most vulnerable stakeholders

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"This is an incisive contribution to complicating juvenile crime, incarceration, and rehabilitation discussion. The authors locate several teenagers, inside and outside the juvenile facilities where they are confined, and show how they adapt one setting to the other with a hybrid of promising and troubling results." -- Mike Males * From the Foreword *
"This study takes us inside the lives of troubled youth that the juvenile court was designed to rescue; it is a must-read for those seeking a humane and effective juvenile corrections system." -- Barry Krisberg * University of California, Berkeley School of Law *

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Foreword
Acknowledgments
Introduction
History and Current Tensions in Juvenile Corrections
The Setting
Mixed Messages: "Therapy Speak" in a Correctional Milieu
"Take It Like a Man": Masculinities, Treatment, and Crime
"Jumping through Hoops": Identity, Self-Preservation, and Change
On the Outs
Rehabilitating Rehabilitation: What We Learned from Unit C
Appendix
References
Index
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A Year in the Life of Unit C

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