Trapped in a Vice: The Consequences of Confinement for Young People

Winner of the 2019 Outstanding Book Award - ASC DCCSJ​

Trapped in a Vice explores the consequences of a juvenile justice system that is aimed at promoting change in the lives of young people, yet ultimately relies upon tools and strategies that enmesh them in a system that they struggle to move beyond. The system, rather than the crimes themselves, is the vice. Trapped in a Vice explores the lives of the young people and adults in the criminal justice system, revealing the ways that they struggle to manage the expectations of that system; these stories from the ground level of the justice system demonstrate the complex exchange of policy and practice.

Author: Alexandra Cox
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
Published: 01/30/2018
Pages: 234
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.72lbs
Size: 8.78h x 8.09w x 0.56d
ISBN: 9780813570464

Review Citation(s):
Choice 09/01/2018

About the Author
ALEXANDRA COX is a lecturer in sociology at the University of Essex in Colchester, England.