Title A dream denied : incarceration, recidivism, and young minority men in America / Michaela Soyer.

Publication Info.	Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2016]
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Description	xi, 172 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references (pages 155-167) and index.
Contents	The role of agency in the desistance process -- Two cities, two systems, similar problems: juvenile justice in Boston and Chicago -- Too little too late juvenile justice as a social service provider -- Imagining desistance -- Weak ties-strong emotions: caring for juvenile offenders in Boston and Chicago -- The uncertainty of freedom: teenagers' desire for confinement and supervision -- "I know how to control myself": autonomy and discipline in the desistance process.
Summary	"'A Dream Denied' shows how the narrative of American Dream shapes the offending trajectories of twenty-three young Latino and African American men in Boston and Chicago. Believing in the American Dream helps the teenagers to cope with the pains of incarceration. However, without the ability to experience themselves as creative actors, reproducing the rhetoric of American meritocracy leaves the teenagers unprepared to negotiate the complex and frustrating process of desistance and reentry.
Subject	Juvenile delinquency -- United States.
	Juvenile delinquents -- Behavior modification -- United States.
	African American juvenile delinquents -- Massachusetts -- Boston.
	African American juvenile delinquents -- Illinois -- Chicago.
	Hispanic American youth -- Massachusetts -- Boston.
	Hispanic American youth -- Illinois -- Chicago.
	Juvenile recidivists -- United States.
	African American juvenile delinquents. (OCoLC)fst00799212
	Hispanic American youth. (OCoLC)fst00957510
	Juvenile delinquency. (OCoLC)fst00985320
	Juvenile delinquents -- Behavior modification. (OCoLC)fst01767836
	Juvenile recidivists. (OCoLC)fst00985508
	Illinois -- Chicago. (OCoLC)fst01204048
	Massachusetts -- Boston. (OCoLC)fst01205012
	United States. (OCoLC)fst01204155
Other Form:	Online version: Soyer, Michaela, 1980- author. Dream denied. Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2016] 9780520964617 (DLC) 2016005504
ISBN	9780520290440 (cloth ;) (alk. paper)
	0520290445 (cloth ;) (alk. paper)
	9780520290457 (pbk. ;) (alk. paper)
	0520290453 (pbk. ;) (alk. paper)

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