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Lost Childhoods : Poverty, Trauma, and Violent Crime in the Post-Welfare Era by Michaela Soyer; University of California Press is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

What is Lost Childhoods : Poverty, Trauma, and Violent Crime in the Post-Welfare Era about?

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. ** From the Inside Flap "Soyer gives readers heart-wrenching accounts, in which marginal young men make sense of their physical and emotional traumas, their parents' instability, and their striking out into a world that frames them as ‘undeserving’ from the start. She certainly captures the disastrous impacts of mass incarceration on the new generation of youths."—Randol Contreras, author of  The Stickup Kids "In a powerful study bas

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

Author

Michaela Soyer; University of California Press

Publisher

University of California Press

Published

2018

Language

EN

ISBN

9780520969087

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Science, Law, Social Science