The myth of the community fix: Inequality and the politics of youth punishment.
This "community-based reform movement" forms the subject of I The Myth of the Community Fix i , which examines juvenile justice reforms in three bellweather states: Pennsylvania, California, and Texas. Cate locates the roots of this more insidious form of privatization in the federal and foundation-...
| Published in: | Law & Society Review Vol. 57; no. 3; pp. 411 - 414 |
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Cambridge University Press
Sep2023
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