juvenile delinquents

Young people whose lives have been impacted by violence and crime, either as perpetrators or as victims, tell their stories. Also includes comments from concerned adults who work with these teens.

Gecko, Arjay, and Terence, all in trouble with the law, must find a way to keep their halfway house open in order to stay out of juvenile detention.

Baz, a young pickpocket who works alongside her friend, a boy named Demi, in a modern city in Latin America, brings her loot to Fay, who manages the gang of thieves from the slums, and when Demi attracts too much attention by stealing a valuable blue ring, Baz embarks on her own only to find a larger scale of corruption out in the world.

After being caught for breaking into an old warehouse, Clive tries to come to grips with what he has become.

Nathan Henry, serving time for an armed robbery he committed when he was sixteen, reflects on the crimes, drugs, sex, and violence in his past, while beginning to understand he can turn his life around.

"...the photographs in Juvenile in Justice open our eyes to the world of the incarceration of American youths. The nearly 150 images in this book were made over 5 years of visiting more than 1,000 youth confined in more than 200 juvenile detention institutions in 31 states. These riveting photographs, accompanied by the life stories that these young people in custody shared with Ross, give voice to imprisoned children from families that have no resources in communities that have no power."--Back cover.

Sent to a remote, run-down reform school in Colorado, fifteen-year-old Angela is placed with the better girls, but upon learning that her "dangerous" friends are being isolated and left to live as animals, she takes radical steps to join them and help them escape.

Fifteen-year-old Line Marani, sentenced to a juvenile labor camp in twenty-second century Los Angeles for his part in a heist gone sour, is given a chance to redeem himself when he is offered a place on a mission beyond the stars.

Text and photographs follow a year in the life of two urban black males from opposites sides of the street. Gary Lemite, a police officer and Sharron Corley, a member of a street gang.

The story of two young murderers, tracing their experiences with the juvenile courts, the foster care system, and the reform schools.