Kids for Cash - Two Judges, Thousands of Children, and a $2.8 Million Kickback Scheme

Informationen zum Autor William Ecenbarger was part of a "Philadelphia Inquirer" reporting team that was awarded a Pulitzer Prize for their coverage of the Three Mile Island nuclear accident. Once an international correspondent for "Reader's Digest," he has been published in the "Washington Post," the "Los Angeles Times," "Smithsonian Magazine," "Esquire," "Audubon," and other leading newspapers and magazines. He is also the author of "Walkin' the Line," a travel-history narrative about the Mason-Dixon Line. He lives with his wife, a travel photographer, in Hershey, Pennsylvania. Klappentext Matthew, Angelia, and Charlie are just three children among the thousands who appeared in Judge Mark A. Ciavarella's courtroom between 2003 and 2008 and were sent away to a detention facility in which, it later came to light, Ciavarella had a personal financial stake. The author shows how this miscarriage of justice underscores a multitude of problems with our juvenile justice system, which too often criminalizes standard adolescent behavior, treats adolescents more harshly than if they were adults, and denies them their most fundamental constitutional rights.

Product details

• Authors: William Ecenbarger, Ecenbarger William
• Publisher: New press usa
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 02.09.2014
• EAN: 9781620970409
• ISBN: 978-1-62097-040-9
• No. of pages: 288
• Subjects: Fiction > Suspense; Non-fiction book > Politics, society, business > Biographies, autobiographies; Social sciences, law, business > Law > International law, foreign law; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Popular Culture, True Crime, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Criminology, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Penology, TRUE CRIME / General, LAW / Courts, LAW / Criminal Law / Juvenile Offenders, LAW / Trial Practice, Popular beliefs & controversial knowledge, Local History, Corporate crime, Corporate crime / white-collar crime, Popular beliefs and controversial knowledge, History of the Americas, Crime and criminology, Crime & criminology, Penology and punishment, Penology & punishment, Northeastern & North Atlantic States, Southeastern & South Atlantic States, Courts & procedure, Legal systems: courts and procedures, US Northeast: Mid-Atlantic States, US South: South Atlantic States, Juvenile Criminal Law