Table of Contents
Author's Note xiii
Prelude: The Time Is at Hand 1
Introduction 5
Part I Teenage Wasteland
1 Inside Juvenile Prison 21
2 Birth of an Abomination: The Juvenile Prison in the Nineteenth Century 38
3 Other People's Children 52
4 The Rise of the Super-Predator and the Decline of the Rehabilitative Ideal 71
5 The Fist and the Boot: Physical Abuse in Juvenile Prisons 81
6 An Open Secret: Sexual Abuse Behind Bars 103
7 The Hole: Solitary Confinement of Juveniles 129
8 "Hurt People Hurt People": Trauma and Incarceration 151
9 The Things They Carry: Juvenile Reentry 181
Part II Burning Down the House
10 A New Wave of Reform 201
11 A Better Mousetrap: The Therapeutic Prison 224
12 Only Connect: Rehabilitation Happens in the Context of Relationship 254
13 Connection in Action: Transforming Juvenile Justice 274
14 The Real Recidivism Problem: One Hundred Years of Reform and Relapse at the Arthur G. Dozier School for Boys 290
15 Against Reform: Beyond the Juvenile Prison 307
Acknowledgments 321
Notes 325