Falling Back: Incarceration and Transitions to Adulthood among Urban Youth

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Falling Back CRITICAL ISSUES IN CRIME AND SOCIETY Raymond J. Michalowski, Series Editor Critical Issues in Crime and Society is oriented toward critical analysis of contemporary problems in crime and justice.The series is open to a broad range of topics including specific types of crime, wrongful behavior by economically or politically powerful actors, controversies over justice system practices, and issues related to the intersection of identity, crime, and justice. It is committed to offering thoughtful works that will be accessible to scholars and professional criminologists, general readers, and students. For a list of titles in the series, see the last page of the book. Falling Back Incarceration and Transitions to Adulthood among Urban Youth Jamie J. Fader Rutgers University Press New Brunswick, New Jersey, and London Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Fader, Jamie J. Falling back : incarceration and transitions to adulthood among urban youth / Jamie J. Fader. p. cm.—(Critical issues in crime and society) Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 978–0–8135–6074–8 (hardcover : alk. paper)-ISBN 978–0–8135–6073–1 (pbk. : alk. paper)-ISBN 978-0-8135-6075-5 (e-book) 1. Juvenile delinquents—Pennsylvania—Philadelphia. 2. Juvenile delinquents— Rehabilitation—Pennsylvania—Philadelphia. 3. Juvenile corrections— Pennsylvania—Philadelphia. 4. Juvenile justice,Administration of— Pennsylvania—Philadelphia. 5. Mountain Ridge Academy. I.Title. HV9106.P5F33 2013 365.'420974811—dc23 2012033333 A British Cataloging-in-Publication record for this book is available from the British Library. Copyright © 2013 by Jamie J. Fader All rights reserved No part of this book may be reproduced or utilized in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, or by any information storage and retrieval system, without written permission from the publisher. Please contact Rutgers University Press, 106 Somerset Street, New Brunswick, NJ 08901.The only exception to this prohibition is “fair use” as defined by U.S. copyright law. Visit our website: http://rutgerspress.rutgers.edu Manufactured in the United States of America To my dad, James Frederick Fader “This is a terrible hardened one,” they says to prison wisitors, picking out me. “May be said to live in jails, this boy.” Then they looked at me, and I looked at them, and they measured my head, some on ‘em,—they had better a measured my stomach—and others on ‘em giv me tracts what I couldn’t read, and made me speeches what I couldn’t understand. They always went on agen me about the Devil. But what the Devil was I to do? I must put something in my stomach mustn’t I? Tramping, begging, thieving, working sometimes when I could—a bit of a poacher, a bit of a labourer, a bit of a wagoner, a bit of a haymaker, a bit of a hawker, a bit of most things that don’t pay and lead to trouble, I got to be a man. —Magwitch, in Charles Dickens’s Great Expectations (1861) ...