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Lost Causes
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 221

Lost Causes

What should be done with minors who kill, maim, defile, and destroy the lives of others? The state of Texas deals with some of its most serious and violent youthful offenders through “determinate sentencing,” a unique sentencing structure that blends parts of the juvenile and adult justice systems. Once adjudicated via determinate sentencing, offenders are first incarcerated in the Texas Youth Commission (TYC). As they approach age eighteen, they are either transferred to the Texas prison system to serve the remainder of their original determinate sentence or released from TYC into Texas’s communities. The first long-term study of determinate sentencing in Texas, Lost Causes examines t...

The Routledge International Handbook of Juvenile Homicide
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 1071

The Routledge International Handbook of Juvenile Homicide

  • Categories: Law

The Routledge International Handbook of Juvenile Homicide is the definitive work on juvenile homicide. This volume provides an up-to-date, comprehensive, and in-depth exploration of what is known about juveniles involved in murder. Taking an interdisciplinary approach to juvenile homicide, this handbook brings together the leading experts in social sciences, mental health, and law from many countries. The volume covers the phenomenon of juvenile homicide from beginning to end, by addressing the questions “why do kids kill?” all the way to “how does society stop them from killing?”. The tough issues involved in sentencing youths who take the lives of others, often deliberately and in ...

The Oxford Handbook of Prisons and Imprisonment
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 777

The Oxford Handbook of Prisons and Imprisonment

Research on prisons prior to the prison boom of the 1980s and 1990s focused mainly on inmate subcultures, inmate rights, and sociological interpretations of inmate and guard adaptations to their environment, with qualitative studies and ethnographic methods the norm. In recent years, research has expanded considerably to issues related to inmates' mental health, suicide, managing special types of offenders, risk assessment, and evidence-based treatment programs. The Oxford Handbook of Prisons and Imprisonment provides the only single source that bridges social scientific and behavioral perspectives, providing graduate students with a more comprehensive understanding of the topic, academics w...

American Corrections
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 924

American Corrections

American Corrections, Second Edition offers you a contemporary, issues-oriented introduction that covers every aspect of corrections, prompting you to think critically about complex issues that are affecting the current U.S. correctional system. Incorporating the most recent theory, research, and data available, the Second Edition encourages you to explore the most interesting and progressive developments in correctional policy and practice. Authors Barry A. Krisberg, Susan Marchionna, and Christopher J. Hartney draw from years of professional experience to give you a practical knowledge of corrections, as well as provide a framework for thoughtful analysis into what is plaguing the American...

Lost Causes
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 221

Lost Causes

What should be done with minors who kill, maim, defile, and destroy the lives of others? The state of Texas deals with some of its most serious and violent youthful offenders through “determinate sentencing,” a unique sentencing structure that blends parts of the juvenile and adult justice systems. Once adjudicated via determinate sentencing, offenders are first incarcerated in the Texas Youth Commission (TYC). As they approach age eighteen, they are either transferred to the Texas prison system to serve the remainder of their original determinate sentence or released from TYC into Texas’s communities. The first long-term study of determinate sentencing in Texas, Lost Causes examines t...

Cárcel, derecho y sociedad
  • Language: es
  • Pages: 400

Cárcel, derecho y sociedad

Cárcel, derecho y sociedad es un avance relevante en la discusión sobre las condiciones, los problemas, los efectos y las alternativas del sistema penitenciario actual en Colombia, e invita a una reflexión más amplia sobre el lugar de la prisión en la sociedad. Los artículos reunidos aquí analizan diferentes aspectos necesarios para comprender el mundo penitenciario del país, su relación con la sociedad y los efectos del arreglo penitenciario y carcelario contemporáneo sobre las personas privadas de la libertad. Son no solo una ventana al aparato carcelario, sino también un recordatorio de que las actuales formas de organización social están soportadas en el sufrimiento de cient...

Personal Epistemology in the Classroom
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 617

Personal Epistemology in the Classroom

This book presents theoretical and empirical work pertaining to personal epistemology in the classroom and consider its broader educational implications.

Smart Decarceration
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 305

Smart Decarceration

  • Categories: Law

Smart Decarceration is a forward-thinking, practical volume that provides concrete strategies for an era of decarceration. This timely work consists of chapters written from multiple perspectives and disciplines including scholars, practitioners, and persons with incarceration histories. The text grapples with tough questions and builds a foundation for the decarceration field.

Last Chance in Texas
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 306

Last Chance in Texas

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2008-04-29
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  • Publisher: Random House

A powerful, bracing and deeply spiritual look at intensely, troubled youth, Last Chance in Texas gives a stirring account of the way one remarkable prison rehabilitates its inmates. While reporting on the juvenile court system, journalist John Hubner kept hearing about a facility in Texas that ran the most aggressive–and one of the most successful–treatment programs for violent young offenders in America. How was it possible, he wondered, that a state like Texas, famed for its hardcore attitude toward crime and punishment, could be leading the way in the rehabilitation of violent and troubled youth? Now Hubner shares the surprising answers he found over months of unprecedented access to ...

Juveniles in Contemporary Society
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 544

Juveniles in Contemporary Society

"Introductory text for courses on juvenile justice/juvenile delinquency"--