Compassionate Confinement

LAURA S. ABRAMS is an associate professor of social welfare at the UCLA Luskin School of Public Affairs and has written over forty scholarly articles and book chapters concerning youth identity, juvenile corrections, and reentry. BEN ANDERSON-NATHE is an associate professor and program director of Child and Family Studies at Portland State University. He is the author of Youth Workers, Stuckness, and the Myth of Supercompetence and coeditor of Child & Youth Services.

• ForewordAcknowledgments Introduction1. History and Current Tensions in Juvenile Corrections2. The Setting3. Mixed Messages: “Therapy Speak” in a Correctional Milieu4. “Take It Like a Man”: Masculinities, Treatment, and Crime5. “Jumping through Hoops”: Identity, Self-Preservation, and Change6. On the Outs7. Rehabilitating Rehabilitation: What We Learned from Unit CAppendix ReferencesIndex

"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)