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Administration of Criminal justiceAfrican American juvenile delinquentsDiscrimination in criminal justice administrationSocial conditionsAfrican American familiesBiographyAfrican American young menNew York Times reviewed
"In a shattering work that shifts between a woman's private anguish over the loss of her beloved baby cousin and a scholar's fierce critique of the American prison system, Danielle Allen seeks answers to what, for many years, felt unanswerable. Why? Why did her cousin, a precocious young man who dreamed of being a firefighter and a writer, end up dead? Why did he languish in prison? And why, at the age of fifteen, was he in an alley in South Central Los Angeles, holding a gun while trying to steal someone's car?"--Dust flap
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