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A Kind and Just Parent: The Children of Juvenile Court
by William Ayers
Product Group: Book
Publisher: Beacon Press (1997-06-30)
ISBN: 0807044024
EAN: 9780807044025
Dewey Decimal #: 364.360977311
Binding/Media: Hardcover - 206 pages
SKU: S286-1109
Condition: New
Comments: In stock - Sent fast from British booksellers.
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Editorial Reviews
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Product Description
The author traces his five years as a teacher and observer of Chicago's Juvenile Court prison, the nation's first and largest institution of juvenile justice, and offers real-life portraits of its inner-city youths. Tour."
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Amazon.com Review
William Ayers brings a reporter's eye and an activist's heart to this well-written and profoundly disturbing book, A Kind and Just Parent: The Children of Juvenile Court. Ayers, who teaches offenders in Chicago's juvenile court system, is a brilliant storyteller, the damning fly on the wall. His book portrays the lives of his students--both within the juvenile temporary detention center and on the "outside." Ayers puts their stories into historical context; argues passionately about the roles of media, poverty, and neglect; refutes the idea of teenager as "superpredator"; and challenges parents--all of us--to ask the question, "Is this good enough for my child?" when determining the standard to use when we think of justice for kids.
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Customer Reviews
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Important book for all to read
Rating  (5)
Date: 2010-02-03
1 out of 1 customers found this reveiw helpful
This book really finds the humanity in an otherwise demonized demographic (juvenile delinquents). Everyone going into education should read this book.
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Great stories of juveniles and justice system in trouble.
Rating (5)
Date: 1998-12-30
7 out of 24 customers found this reveiw helpful
This is a story of children, real children, still soft inside, and yet with a force field that can put off both the kindest and the most brutal attacks one can inflict. It is a story of a justice system long gone amuck, but often with good intentions, and some surprisingly good people lighting up the corners. Ayers is a good tale-teller, and catches students at the juvenile detention "home" in Chicago - it could just as well be many other places - in moments of anger, despair, humor, joy, self-deception and learning, along with the teachers that carefully try to offer regularity, challenge and choice. For those many to whom juveniles and juvenile detention facilities are not real, this book is a must. For those who know, it will be a renewed inspiration and challenge.
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This book is powerful, instructive, and brilliant.
Rating (5)
Date: 1998-04-20
3 out of 19 customers found this reveiw helpful
Ayers book should be read by all educators who work with young people forgotten by the system. His case studies are brilliantly drawn and teach us a great deal about "juvenile justice". It has provoked discussion of poverty, violence, and social change. It has changed the thinking of many of my students for its clarity, insight, and hope.
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