Caught Up: Girls, Surveillance, and Wraparound Incarceration (Gender and Justice)

Gender and Justice

by Jerry Flores

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. 

Genres: Nonfiction, Sociology

200 pages, Paperback

Published August 9, 2016

Reviews

[Coco Chen (preserumcoco) · Rating 5 out of 5]

Still do not know how to rate nonfiction books, but here goes nothing. I can’t say this is a particularly enjoyable book to read, but I’m very glad to have read it. While I did know a variety of the things discussed in this book due to having taken sociology/criminology courses, I love how this book had an intersection on race, class, and gender, as well as how it told stories of some of the girls specifically. It was also amazing to read Appendix A and mention the difficulties male researchers have in creating distance as often girls have to wield their sexuality to benefit themselves.

[Isa Dalmacio · Rating 4 out of 5]

fuck school to prison pipeline! fuck wraparound incarceration!

[Wade, Rosario, and Marco · Rating 5 out of 5]

Rosario read this one for college and really liked it.