Youth, Community and the Struggle for Social Justice

Tim Goddard, "Youth, Community and the Struggle for Social Justice "
English | ISBN: 0367228130 | 2021 | 184 pages | EPUB | 407 KB
Activists, policymakers, and scholars in the US have called for policy reform and evidence-based efforts to decrease the number of people in jail and prison, improve hostile police-community relations, and rollback the "tough on crime" movement. Given that poor people, particularly poor people of color, make up the majority of those under carceral control in Western, industrial countries, can technical solutions, gradual reforms, and individual-level programming genuinely change the deeply entrenched carceral state that has been expanding in the US for over 40 years?