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100 1  Hobbs, Jeff,|d1980-|eauthor. 
245 10 Children of the state :|bstories of survival and hope in 
       the juvenile justice system /|cJeff Hobbs. 
250    First Scribner hardcover edition. 
264  1 New York :|bScribner,|c2023. 
300    xiii, 364 pages ;|c24 cm 
336    text|btxt|2rdacontent 
337    unmediated|bn|2rdamedia 
338    volume|bnc|2rdacarrier 
520    "Very little has been written about juvenile justice. In 
       the greater consciousness, the word "justice" in this 
       context has been leeched of meaning; it just signifies 
       prison for kids. But to those living and working in 
       various capacities within that system, the word "justice" 
       holds a sepulchral gravity. In Children of the State, 
       bestselling author of The Short and Tragic Life of Robert 
       Peace Jeff Hobbs presents three different true stories 
       that show the day-to-day life and the existential 
       challenges faced by those living and working in juvenile 
       programs: educators, counselors, administrators, and-most 
       importantly-children. While serving a year-long detention 
       in Wilmington, DE-perennially one of the violent crime 
       capitols of America-a bright but stunted young man 
       considers the benefits and also the immense costs of 
       striving for college acceptance while imprisoned. A career
       juvenile hall English Language Arts teacher struggles to 
       align the small moments of wonder in her work alongside 
       its overall statistical futility, all while the city 
       government presumes to design a new juvenile system 
       without cinderblocks-and possibly without those teaching 
       in the current system. A territorial fistfight in Paterson,
       NJ is characterized by the media as a hate crime, and the 
       boy held accountable for that crime seeks redemption and 
       friendship in a rigorous Life & Professional Skills class 
       in lower Manhattan. These stories are followed to their 
       knotty conclusions in triptych form. In chronicling the 
       work of this constellation of people trying to accomplish 
       good work in abjectly horrible systems and circumstances, 
       Children of the State asks: What should society do with 
       young people who have made terrible decisions? For many 
       kids, a woeful mistake made at age thirteen or fourteen-
       often as a result of external factors bearing upon a 
       biologically immature brain-will resonate through the rest
       of their lives, making high school difficult, college 
       nearly impossible, and a middle class life a foolish 
       fantasy. To observe these missteps and raw challenges and 
       small triumphs from shoulder height, through the 
       experiences of thinking, feeling, poignant young people, 
       is to be moved to consider altering the fixed narrative 
       currently laid out of them. As Hobbs demonstrates in 
       piercing, vivid prose: No one so young should ever be 
       considered irredeemable"--|cProvided by publisher. 
650  0 Juvenile delinquents|zUnited States|vCase studies. 
650  0 Juvenile delinquents|xRehabilitation|zUnited States|vCase 
       studies. 
650  0 Juvenile justice, Administration of|zUnited States|vCase 
       studies.