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Lost Childhoods: Poverty, Trauma, and Violent Crime in the Post-Welfare Era

By Michaela Soyer

Book information

Publisher
University of California Press
Year
2018
ISBN
9780520969087
DOI
10.1525/9780520969087
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
376 kB (384980 bytes)
Pages
152\156
Library
degruyter.com
Time added
2023-08-21 15:30:09

Description

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.

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