The Palgrave International Handbook of Youth Imprisonment

Foreword, Professor Manfred Nowak. 1. Introduction, Alexandra Cox and Laura S. Abrams.- 2. Self-Isolation May Feel Like Jail-It's Nothing Compared to Youth Prison, Hernán Carvente-Martinez.- 3. Children and Young People in Custody in England and Wales - Rights and Wrongs, Laura Janes.- 4. Everyday Violence in El Redentor Specialized Care Center in Bogotá, Colombia, Laura Liévano-Karim and Amy E. Ritterbusch.- 5. Doing Time: Young People and the Rhetoric of Juvenile Justice in Ghana, Kofi E. Boakye and Thomas D. Akoensi .- 6. The Rebirth of Delinquent: Adult-Children: Criminal Capacity, Socio-Economic Systems and the Malleability of Penality of Child Delinquency in India, Shailesh Kumar.- 7. Juvenile Deprivation of Liberty in Brazil: Discretion, Expansion and Deterioration, Rafael Barreto Souza.- 8. "I wanna be somebody by the time I turn 25": Narratives of Pathways into Crime and Reentry Expectations among Young Men in Germany and the United States, Michaela Soyer and Janina L. Selzer.- 9. State Property, an excerpt from A Stone of Hope: A Memoir, Jim St. Germain.- 10. Boredom: A Key Experience of Youth Imprisonment, Tea Torbenfeldt Bengtsson.- 11. Friendship in the Juvenile Correctional Institution, Anne Nurse.- 12. Juvenile Facility Staff: Research, Policy, and Practice, Alexandra Cox.- 13. Straight and Narrow: Girls, Sexualities, and the Youth Justice System, Lisa Pasko.- 14. "This Place Saved My Life": The Limits of Christian Redemption Narratives at a Juvenile Detention Facility for Girls, Mary Thomas- 15. Horizontal Surveillance and Therapeutic Governance of Institutionalized Girls, Carla P. Davis.- 16. Hypermasculinity in Interaction: Affective Practices, Resistance And Vulnerability in a Swedish Youth Prison, Anna Franzén.- 17. Incarcerated Young Men and Boys: Trauma, Masculinity, and the Need for Trauma-Informed, Gender-Sensitive Correctional Care, Nina Vaswani, Carla Cesaroni, and Matthew Maycock.- 18. The Expectations and Challenges of Youth Reentry,

Alexandra Cox is Senior Lecturer in Sociology at the University of Essex, UK. She previously served as Assistant Professor at the State University of New York at New Paltz in their Department of Sociology.
Laura S. Abrams is Chair and Professor of Social Welfare at UCLA Luskin School of Public Affairs, USA. Her scholarship focuses on improving the well-being of youth and young adults with histories of incarceration.