Young Blood

This work features writings by death-row inmates, family members of victims and perpetrators, religious and political figures, journalists, criminologists, and legal experts, along with information on programs designed to help young people who have gone astray. Intimate personal accounts reveal the fear and regret of death-row inmates as well as the horror and anxiety of their loved ones. In one moving chapter, a mother speaks candidly about the murder of her daughter and how she feels toward the murderer. Alternately grief-stricken and angry, she concludes that it is up to every citizen to play a part in helping our troubled children before they grow up to become gun-toting hoodlums. The book advocates rehabilitation programs, a new national emphasis on broken families and the problems of youth, child care for single mothers, and an overhaul of the juvenile-justice system. Dicks calls for a distinction between justice and revenge, and offers a provocative, wrenching, yet realistic look at a problem that threatens the future of our society.

ISBN 0879759534   Pages 295 ISBN13 9780879759537 (What's this?)   Volumes 1 Publisher Prometheus Books   Weight (grammes) 590 Imprint Prometheus Books   Published in Amherst Format Hardback   Height (mm) 230 Publication date 19 Dec 1995   Width (mm) 155 Library of Congress HV9104.Y66   Spine width (mm) 28 DEWEY 364.660835   Academic level Undergraduate, Postgraduate, Professional / Scholarly DEWEY edition DC20

1		Should Teens Be Tried as Adults? by Ron Harris		13
2		Drugs and Teen Violence by Shirley Dicks		51
3		Wrong Side of a Gun by Susan Thomas		57
4		The Mentally Retarded and the Justice System by Robert Perske and Shirley Dicks		75
5		Coretta Scott King on the Execution of Westley Allan Dodd		89
6		The Electric Chair by Frank Bambridge		93
7		Life without Parole: An Alternative to the Death Penalty by Richard Dieter		97
8		The Young Criminal Years of the Violent Few by Donna Martin Hamparian and Joseph M. Davis and Judith M. Jacobson and Robert E. McGraw		105
9		Juveniles on Death Row: Case Profiles by Shirley Dicks		117
10		An Attorney Decries Juvenile Executions by David Bruck		159
11		Juveniles on Death Row by Victor Streib		167
12		Who's to Blame? by Ward Weaver, Jr.		177
13		Gary Graham, Juvenile on Death Row by Shirley Dicks		181
14		A Death Row Inmate Speaks to Youth by Ricky Smith		189
15		"Isolation That You Can't Understand," The Ron Harries Story by Shirley Dicks		193
16		An Ex-Biker Rehabilitated on Death Row by Gerald Laney		201
17		Wrongly Convicted by Shirley Dicks		209
18		They Sentenced My Son to Die by Shirley Dicks		225
19		The Power of Forgiveness by Bill Pelke		235
20		Winning the Battle against Violence by Coby Coffman		253
21		The Abuse of Power by Betty McCullough		263
22		Tennessee Friends Outside Organization: Reconciliation Ministries		269
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