Lost Childhoods

Poverty, Trauma, and Violent Crime in the Post-Welfare Era
1. Auflage 2019
ISBN: 978-0-520-29670-1
Verlag: University of California Press

Buch, Englisch, 152 Seiten, Cloth Over Boards, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 363 g

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Soyer, Michaela

Fachgebiete

• Rechtswissenschaften Strafrecht Kriminologie, Strafverfolgung
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Kriminalsoziologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Gewalt und Diskriminierung: Soziale Aspekte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments
introduction
1. punishment and the welfare state
2. the making of life-course-persistent offenders
3. the end of childhood: parental drug addiction
and violence
4. the weakness of strong ties: extreme poverty
and the fracture of close kinship ties
5. masculinity and violence: physical and
emotional abuse at home and in the juvenile
justice system
6. losing children
conclusion and policy implications
Appendix I
Appendix II
Notes
References
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Michaela Soyer is Assistant Professor of Sociology at Hunter College and author of A Dream Denied: Incarceration, Recidivism, and Young Minority Men.