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Author:  Russ Immarigeon.


Source: Volume 18, Number 04, Summer 2009 , pp.19-21(3)




Journal of Community Justice (formerly Journal of Community Corrections)

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Abstract: 

Five book reviews cover issues regarding work with addicted individuals, sentencing and incarceration, work with juveniles, and the value of peacemaking projects in youth work: Let’s Get Free: A Hip Hop Theory of Justice by Paul Butler (The New Press); The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness by Michelle Alexander (The New Press); Juvenile Justice in America: Problems and Prospectsedited by Randall G. Shelden and Daniel Macallair (Waveland Press); Childhood, Youth, Social Work in Transformation: Implications for Policy and Practice edited by Lynn M. Nybell, Jeffrey J. Shook, and Janet L. Finn Foreward by Rosemary Saari (Columbia University Press); Peacemaking Circles and Urban Youth: Bringing Justice Home by Carolyn Boyes-Watson Foreword by the Reverend Dr. Martin Brokenleg (Living Justice Press).

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Affiliations:  1: Book Review Editor.

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