An Exercise in Failure
Punishing “At-Risk” Youth and Families in a South Los Angeles Boot Camp Program
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2415438 |
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| Authors | Luis Daniel Gascón, Aaron Roussell |
| Year | 2018 |
| Volume | 8 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 270-297 |
| Publication date | 2018-07-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Race and Justice (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 2153-3687 • E-ISSN: 2153-3687 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1177/2153368716678289 |
| OpenAlex | W2559669855 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 39 |
Juvenile correctional boot camps seek to transform youth labeled "at-risk" into productive members of society. While these military-style programs have been in decline since the early 2000s, the Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD), one of the largest agencies in the country, continues to embrace them as a key disciplinary practice and vestige of the "get tough" era in U.S. juvenile justice reform. Contemporary transformative programs have been linked to Progressive Era juvenile social control, and scholars are beginning to show that, historically, racial exclusion has been a central function. The goals of this research are to interrogate the treatment of boot camp participants by police and demonstrate how racial exclusion remains central to juvenile social control. Drawing on collaborative ethnographic fieldwork, this study shows how police stigmatize Black and Latino parents, adopt the role of disciplinary authority in the family, and infuse formal control processes into domestic life. Youth face stigmatizing encounters through degradation and punitive physical training as part of the camp's disciplinary regime. This research suggests that youth intervention programs built on liberal ideals are the most recent in a long line of racialized social control systems in the United States that seek to stigmatize and confine youth of color
Crime control · Criminal justice · Criminology · Discipline · Economic Justice · Mass incarceration · Pedagogy · Political science · Punitive damages · School Discipline · Social control · Sociology · Transformative learning · Criminal Justice and Corrections Analysis · Education Discipline and Inequality · Homelessness and Social Issues · Law
Scenes of subjection
The child savers
The Black Child-Savers
Intersectionality and Criminology
Silent Covenants
Race Effects in Juvenile Justice Decision-Making
Dehumanization
Discipline and Punish
Crook County
Writing Ethnographic Fieldnotes
Punishment and Modern Society
Punished
The Condemnation of Blackness
Treatment Without Trial
Deadly Symbiosis
What do I Care? Perceived Ingroup Responsibility and Dehumanization as Predictors of Empathy Felt for the Victim Group
Effects of Correctional Boot Camps on Offending
The New Jim Crow
Slave Patrols
Schools and Delinquency in the Early 20th Century
Construction and initial validation of the Color-Blind Racial Attitudes Scale (CoBRAS)
Not yet human
Policing the Anticommunity
Moments of Social Inclusion and Exclusion Race, Class, and Cultural Capital in Family-School Relationships
Do You See What I See? Examining a Collaborative Ethnography
The Linguistics of Color Blind Racism
Conditions of Successful Degradation Ceremonies
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