Lost Childhoods: Poverty, Trauma, and Violent Crime in the Post-Welfare Era
Michaela Soyer
Abstract
Lost Childhoods focuses on the life-course histories of thirty young men serving time in the adult prison system in Pennsylvania for crimes they committed when they were minors. The narratives of these young men, their friends, and relatives reveal the invisible yet deep-seated connection between the childhood traumas they suffered and the violent criminal behavior they committed during adolescence. By living through domestic violence, poverty, the crack epidemic, and other circumstances, these men were forced to grow up fast, while familial ties that should have sustained them were broken at ... More
Keywords: trauma, welfare, poverty, young adult offenders
Bibliographic Information
| Print publication date: 2018 | Print ISBN-13: 9780520296701 |
| Published to California Scholarship Online: May 2019 | DOI:10.1525/california/9780520296701.001.0001 |
