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The Palgrave International Handbook of Youth Imprisonment

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Editors:
  1. Alexandra Cox

    1. Department of Sociology, University of Essex, Colchester, UK

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  2. Laura S. Abrams

    1. Luskin School of Public Affairs, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, USA

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  • Includes a foreword by Professor Manfred Nowak
  • Balances scholarly analysis with ‘real life’ perspectives, from formerly-incarcerated youth, system administrators, and policy advocates
  • Draws in particular on the work of researchers who have engaged in qualitative research about the imprisonment of young people
  • Lays out the tensions and debates in this area of study
  • Speaks to those interested in the sociology of punishment and imprisonment, prison studies, juvenile delinquency/youth justice, critical youth studies, and social work/social welfare

Part of the book series: Palgrave Studies in Prisons and Penology (PSIPP)

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Table of contents (28 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xxviii
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  2. Introduction

    • Alexandra Cox, Laura S. Abrams
    Pages 1-15

  3. Violated: Children’s Rights are Human Rights

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 17-17
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    2. Self-Isolation May Feel Like Jail: It’s Nothing Compared to Youth Prison

      • Hernán Carvente-Martinez
      Pages 19-21

    3. Children and Young People in Custody in England and Wales: Rights and Wrongs

      • Laura Janes
      Pages 23-50

    4. Everyday Violence in El Redentor Specialized Care Center in Bogotá, Colombia

      • Laura Liévano-Karim, Amy E. Ritterbusch
      Pages 51-75

    5. Doing Time: Young People and the Rhetoric of Juvenile Justice in Ghana

      • Kofi E. Boakye, Thomas D. Akoensi
      Pages 77-103

  5. Regulating Emotions and Relationships Behind Bars

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 183-183
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    2. State Property

      • Jim St. Germain
      Pages 185-204

    3. Boredom: A Key Experience of Youth Imprisonment

      • Tea Torbenfeldt Bengtsson
      Pages 205-223

    4. Friendship in the Juvenile Correctional Institution

      • Anne M. Nurse
      Pages 225-241

    5. Juvenile Facility Staff: Research, Policy, and Practice

      • Alexandra Cox
      Pages 243-264
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About this book

This handbook brings together the knowledge on juvenile imprisonment to develop a global, synthesized view of the impact of imprisonment on children and young people. There are a growing number of scholars around the world who have conducted in-depth, qualitative research inside of youth prisons, and about young people incarcerated in adult prisons, and yet this research has never been synthesized or compiled. This book is organized around several core themes including: conditions of confinement, relationships in confinement, gender/sexuality and identity, perspectives on juvenile facility staff, reentry from youth prisons, young people’s experiences in adult prisons, and new models and perspectives on juvenile imprisonment. This handbook seeks to educate students, scholars, and policymakers about the role of incarceration in young people’s lives, from an empirically-informed, critical, and global perspective.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Department of Sociology, University of Essex, Colchester, UK

    Alexandra Cox

  • Luskin School of Public Affairs, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, USA

    Laura S. Abrams

About the editors

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.

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