| Summary: | 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-led community action projects of the 1960s, arguing that elite, foundation-led reforms have perpetuated a misguided focus on changing individual youth instead of the structural and social inequities that shaped them. In March 2023, the suicide of 16-year-old Joshua Keith Beasley at the Travis County State Jail in Austin, TX, joined a tragically long list of preventable deaths in American youth prisons.
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