Caught Up

Jerry Flores

• Publisher: University of California Press
• Year: 2016
• ISBN:
  9780520960541
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Social Sciences
• Subtopic: Criminology
• Index: Social Sciences

From home, to school, to juvenile detention center, and back again. Follow the lives of fifty Latina girls living forty miles outside of Los Angeles, California, as they are inadvertently caught up in the school-to-prison pipeline. Their experiences in the connected programs between "El Valle" Juvenile Detention Center and "Legacy" Community School reveal the accelerated fusion of California schools and institutions of confinement. The girls participate in well-intentioned wraparound services designed to provide them with support at home, at school, and in the detention center. But these services may more closely resemble the phenomenon of wraparound incarceration, in which students, despite leaving the actual detention center, cannot escape the surveillance of formal detention, and are thereby slowly pushed away from traditional schooling and a productive life course.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Caught Up
• Title
• Copyright
• CONTENTS
• Acknowledgments
• Introduction
• 1. Trouble in the Home, and First Contact with the Criminal Justice System
• 2. Life behind Bars
• 3. Legacy Community School and the New Face of Alternative Education
• 4. School, Institutionalization, and Exclusionary Punishment
• 5. Hooks for Change and Snares for Confinement
• Conclusion
• Appendix A: “Who Is Th is Man in the Classroom?”
• Appendix B: Demographic Information
• Notes
• References
• Index