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1) Breathing
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (94 minutes) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Deutsch
Description
Portrait of an incarcerated teenager attempting to win parole by working at a local morgue. Raised from birth in institutions, he is initially impassive and self-sabotaging in his behavior; soon, though, he begins to respect the solemn work of handling the dead, and starts to come to terms with his own youthful crime.
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1 videodisc (approximately 102 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A wild Scottish island provides the backdrop for this tense drama of a stormy marriage between an authoritarian minister and his mysterious wife whose lives are shaken by the unexpected arrival of a delinquent into their home.
Physical Desc
178 pages : illustrations ; 27 cm
Language
English
Description
"Deborah Ellis, activist and award-winning author of The Breadwinner interviews young people involved in the criminal justice system and lets them tell their own stories. Jamar found refuge in a gang after leaving an abusive home where his mother stole from him. Fred was arrested for assault with a weapon, public intoxication and attacking his mother while on drugs. Jeremy first went to court at age fourteen ("Court gives you the feeling that you...
Author
Language
English
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Levin creates a world driven equally by moral fervor and slapstick comedy. Expelled from multiple Jewish day-schools for acts of violence and backtalk, Gurion ends up in the Cage, a special lockdown program for the most hopeless cases of Aptakisic Junior High. Separated from his scholarly followers, Gurion becomes a leader with righteous aims building to a revolution of troubling intensity.
Author
Physical Desc
xvii, 349 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
In 1984, this groundbreaking book offered readers an illuminating window into the workings of the criminal mind and a revolutionary approach to "habilitation". In 2004, armed with twenty years of additional knowledge and insight, Samenow explored the subject anew, using his expertise to explain the thought patterns of those who commit the crimes we were most concerned with in the new millennium, such as domestic violence, Internet victimization, and...
Author
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xii, 243 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"ALL DAY is a behind-the-bars, personal glimpse into the issue of mass incarceration via an unpredictable, insightful and ultimately hopeful reflection on teaching teens while they await sentencing. Told with equal parts raw honesty and unbridled compassion, ALL DAY recounts a year in Liza Jessie Peterson's classroom at Island Academy, the high school for inmates detained at New York City's Rikers Island. A poet and actress who had done occasional...
Author
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303 pages ; 20 cm
Language
English
Description
"A chance phone call throws the biggest murder case in southern England into the hands of provincial attorney Leo Curtice. Twelve-year-old Daniel Blake stands accused of murdering an eleven-year-old girl. But who is truly responsible when one child kills another? As Curtice sets out to defend the indefensible, he soon finds himself pitted against an enraged community calling for blood. When the build-up of pressure takes a sinister turn, he fears...
Language
English
Description
Jim Stark, a new kid in town whose loneliness, frustration and anger mirrored those of postwar teens, is still reverberating 50 years later. Though he finds some of this in his relation with Judy, and a form of it in both Plato's adulation and Ray's concern for him, Jim must still prove himself to his peers.
Author
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368 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"A thought-provoking, masterfully told work of literary journalism about a shocking crime committed by a teenager--and its even more shocking aftermath. In 1985 in Gary, Indiana, a black teenage girl kills an elderly white woman in a robbery gone wrong. The shock and awe of the case captivates the state, whose citizens cry out for vengeance. Soon after, Paula Cooper, the fifteen-year-old killer, is sentenced to death. Indiana's minimum age for the...
Series
Physical Desc
4 videodiscs (673 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
After the stunning events in the first season finale that found all of the survivors of the Ark attempting to return to the surface, and the epic battle with the Grounders, there are plenty of questions for Season Two. Foremost: Who are the mysterious Mountain Men? Who survived the battle with the Grounders? And what₂s with that mysterious white room in Mt. Weather?
12) Les Apaches
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (82 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Français
Description
A group of hoodlum teenagers in tourist-happy Corsica embark on a night of mischief that ends in desperation and murder.
13) Bravetown
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1 videodisc (114 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Josh is a New York DJ who spends his nights partying in the city's exclusive clubs. After an accidental drug overdose he is sentenced to spend a year with his dad in small town Paragon, North Dakota. When he meets Mary, she shows him this small town has more to offer than he could have ever expected.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : chiefly illustrations ; 19 cm
Language
English
Description
Majiba Kayo is a chain-smoking, class-skipping, hell-raising juvenile delinquent and pretty much the last person on Earth you'd expect to be a magical girl. But after a run-in with magical creature Myu, everything changes. Now, when Kayo transforms, neither evildoer nor innocent bystander is safe!
Author
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xxiv, 390 pages ; 20 cm
Language
English
Description
"Liz Hauck and her dad had a plan to start a weekly cooking program in a residential home for teen-aged boys in state care, which was run by the human services agency he co-directed. When her father died unexpectedly after a brief illness, Liz decided to attempt the cooking project without him. She didn't know what to expect volunteering with court-involved youth, but as a high school teacher she knew that teenagers are drawn to food-related activities,...
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Series
High Coast volume 1
Physical Desc
356 pages ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
"It's been more than twenty years since Olof Hagström left home. Returning to his family's house, he knows instantly that something is amiss. The front door key, hidden under a familiar stone, is still there. Inside, there's a panicked dog, a terrible stench, water pooling on the floor. Upstairs in the shower, the father Olaf has not seen or spoken to in decades is dead. For police detective Eira Sjödin, the investigation of this suspicious death...
17) True notebooks
Author
Physical Desc
330 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Chronicles the author's first years teaching at Central Juvenile Hall, a lockup for Los Angeles's most violent teenage offenders.
18) Standing tall
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (119 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Français
Description
A juvenile judge and a special educator are convinced that they can save the young delinquent Malony from himself and his violent ways.
Series
Film Movement volume 9, film 12
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (116, 15 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Norwegian
Description
Seventeen-year-old Erling is a rumored murderer and therefore sent to the Bastoy Boys Home correctional facility. Once there he clashes with the island facility's governor who believes manual labor, rigid discipline, and harsh punishment is the only way to turn these boys around. Refusing to accept the constant abuse, Erling leads the boys in a violent uprising that will bring them head to head with no less than the Norwegian Army.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (91 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Español
Description
Tough and in your face, Rodrigo D reveals the brutal tale of a teenager making a goal of it in one of the world's toughest towns: Medellin, Columbia. A cast of young actors and real life street toughs - some of whom met violent deaths after the filming.
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