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"This riveting ethnography provides readers with a rare look at the experiences of young women within the juvenile justice system. Flores brilliantly demonstrates how schools and carceral institutions become inextricably connected to form a ubiquitous system of punitive control, leading to bleak outcomes in the lives of marginalized girls."—Victor Rios, author of Punished: Policing the Lives of Black and Latino Boys
"Jerry Flores’s compelling ethnography focuses on the lives of fifty Latina girls at a youth detention facility and its associated community (continuation) school. Through analyzing the various pathways to incarceration, Flores illustrates key turning points that can help extricate girls from the criminal justice system. This book questions conventional knowledge about girls in detention and ultimately complicates the portrayal of racially gendered criminalization. It should be carefully examined by practitioners, scholars, policy makers, and students."—Denise A. Segura, coeditor of Women and Migration in the U.S.-Mexico Borderlands: A Reader
List of contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction
1. Trouble in the Home, and First Contact with the Criminal Justice System
2. Life behind Bars
3. Legacy Community School and the New Face of Alternative Education
4. School, Institutionalization, and Exclusionary Punishment
5. Hooks for Change and Snares for Confinement
Conclusion
Appendix A: “Who Is Th is Man in the Classroom?”
Appendix B: Demographic Information
Notes
References
Index
About the author
Jerry Flores is Assistant Professor of Sociology at the University of Toronto.
Summary
From home, to school, to juvenile detention center, and back again. This book follows the lives of fifty Latina girls living forty miles outside of Los Angeles, California, as they are inadvertently caught up in the school-to-prison pipeline.
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"Very informative and engaging... To the reader, Flores can seem as if he is closely tied to his participants, and as if he wants his readers to feel that same connection."
