Screwing The System And Making It Work

Download or read book Screwing the System and Making it Work written by Mark D. Jacobs and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 1993-10 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Who is responsible for juvenile delinquency? Mark D. Jacobs uses ethnographic, statistical, and literary methods to uncover the many levels of disorganization in American juvenile justice. By analyzing the continuities betwen normal casework and exceptional cases, he reveals that probation officers must commonly contrive informal measures to circumvent a system which routinely obstructs the delivery of services to their clients. Jacobs defines the concept of the "no-fault society" to describe the larger context of societal disorder and interpersonal manipulation that the juvenile justice system at once reflects and exacerbates.