- Description
- 1 online resource.
- Summary
- "'A Dream Denied' shows how the narrative of American Dream shapes the offending trajectories of twenty-three young Latino and African American men in Boston and Chicago. Believing in the American Dream helps the teenagers to cope with the pains of incarceration. However, without the ability to experience themselves as creative actors, reproducing the rhetoric of American meritocracy leaves the teenagers unprepared to negotiate the complex and frustrating process of desistance and reentry.
- Uniform Title
- Dream denied (Online)
- Alternative Title
- Dream denied (Online)
- Subjects
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Access (note)
- Access restricted to authorized users.
- Source of Description (note)
- Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (Site, viewed 02/19/2021).
- Contents
- The role of agency in the desistance process -- Two cities, two systems, similar problems: juvenile justice in Boston and Chicago -- Too little too late juvenile justice as a social service provider -- The imagination of desistance -- Weak ties-strong emotions: caring for juvenile offenders in Boston and Chicago -- The uncertainty of freedom-teenagers' desire for confinement and supervision -- "I know how to control myself"-autonomy and discipline in the desistance process.
- ISBN
- 9780520964617
- LCCN
- 2016005504
- OCLC
- ssj0001681282
- Author
Soyer, Michaela, 1980-
- Title
A dream denied [electronic resource] : incarceration, recidivism, and young minority men in America / Michaela Soyer.
- Imprint
Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2016]
- Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Access
Access restricted to authorized users.
- Note
Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (Site, viewed 02/19/2021).
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- Other Form:
Print version: Soyer, Michaela, 1980- author. Dream denied Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2016] 9780520290440 (DLC) 2016003759