No Place for Children: Voices from Juvenile Detention

by Steve Liss, Cecilia Balli, Marian Wright Edelman

Book Overview

Juvenile crime rates have dropped dramatically since the early 1990s, yet more young people are in juvenile detention today than at any other time in America's history. Most are nonviolent offenders. Many have mental health or substance abuse problems. All have been failed by some combination of their families, schools, churches, and communities. But instead of addressing these young people's needs for treatment, rehabilitation, and basic nurturing,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0292701969
• ISBN13: 9780292701960
• Release Date: May 2005
• Publisher: University of Texas Press
• Length: 151 Pages
• Weight: 2.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 8.6" x 11.7"