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NO MATTER HOW LOUD I SHOUT : A Year in the Life of Juvenile Court | 
| Author: Edward Humes
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Category: Book
List Price: $15.00
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Rating:  26 reviews
Sales Rank: 14733
Media: Paperback
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 400
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.9
Dimensions (in): 8.5 x 5.6 x 1
ISBN: 0684811952
Dewey Decimal Number: 364.3609794
EAN: 9780684811956
Publication Date: May 7, 1997
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Amazon.com Review
This is one powerful book: it will grab you with vivid stories about individual kids, draw you in with honesty and compassion, and amaze you with alarming details about how the juvenile justice system works (or rather, doesn't work) in America. Anyone interested in the problem of crime should read Edward Humes's gripping account of how future criminals are shaped in youth, and how the system misses its chance to help them before they're lost for good. As Richard Bernstein writes in the New York Times, "There are many admirable things about Mr. Humes's book, which, despite its grim subject matter, has a narrative power that keeps you reading right to the end. One of them is that Mr. Humes is a shrewd and perceptive observer of his young subjects ... [and he] allows himself to feel sympathy for the young people whose lives and crimes he describes.... At the same time, Mr. Humes never exonerates bad children for their badness." No Matter How Loud I Shout was a finalist for the 1997 Edgar Award in Fact Crime.
Product Description
Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Edward Hume's offers this unforgettable odyssey through the corridors of the United States juvenile court system--the one place intended to save our children, though it seldom does. "Passionate. . . . A sad, maddening, brilliant book."--The Washington Post.
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 Fine insider narrative, self-defeatingly factless October 10, 1998
9 out of 13 found this review helpful
Ed Humes provides a superior account of the human (and inhuman) side of the juvenile justice system in Los Angeles. Accolades to his reporting are justified, but Humes' advocacy of the juvenile justice system suffers a fatal mistake: he relies on secondary sources for basic facts and presents a completely backwards picture. The startling truth, clearly evident from reviewing crime statistics for Los Angeles from the state Criminal Justice Statistics Center, is that juvenile crime (especially serious crime) has been PLUMMETING DRAMATICALLY for 20 years. Teenage felony rates fell more than 40% from 1975 through 1995 (and dropped even more in 1996 and 1997), with sharp decreases in property and drug crimes and no increase in violent crime. Had Humes consulted original sources instead of relying on the inflammatory secondary commentators on juvenile justice, he would have authored a revolutionary and inspiring treatise on how -- despite the negative odds of growing poverty, more chaotic homes, and deteriorating job and education opportunity for youth of color -- Los Angeles teenagers and the stressed juvenile justice system can boast surprising successes. Instead, Humes resorts to unwarranted, inflammatory denigration of an entire generation and produces a disappointingly standard book that misses the real story.
One of the best I've read February 2, 2001
8 out of 9 found this review helpful
I read this book for my sociology class. It was the best I've read. The stories of these kids are so involving and twisted that you wonder if this is book is fiction. This gives such insight to the problems of todays juveniles and how the court system fails them repeatedly and how the kids fail themself. Truly sad and yet reminding us how cold life can be and how fortunate some of us actually are relative to these kids. Although you can read this book in a few hours, it's still worth having on your shelf. This book is part indictment of the system and part spotlight on the troubles ahead for us all if it's not corrected.
Powerful, haunting, and illuminating June 21, 2001
8 out of 9 found this review helpful
I read this book for a history of child welfare class and found it impossible to put down. Humes clearly illustrates the problems with the U.S. Juvenile Justice system in Los Angeles. He follows several teen-agers through their trials, mis-trials, time in the California Youth Authority, and rehabilitation. Even though these children are often convicted, you have a chance to see that they really are just children. This book inspired me to pursue a career in juvenile justice.
there has to be a better way January 19, 2001
6 out of 6 found this review helpful
This is the quintessential book for me. All I can say is that everyone and no one is responsible for the plight of kids like "George Trevino". His impossible situation haunted me, surfacing raw emotions. Why do we turn our backs on kids like this? We need to find an answer fast before we transform conscientious orphans into delinquents whose only dominant emotion is hate. Where is George now? Has he given up on the system yet? I hope not. Every time I think of his disadvantaged life I need an easy culprit to lay the blame on, when in reality I should be holding the person in the mirror accountable...
My heart heard Georges Voice. April 5, 2001
6 out of 15 found this review helpful
I was lucky enought to meet this "heaven sent" man. When I read the book, I finally realized why I was so drawn to George. He was like me. A child that lived a life of being inprisoned because of the unfair life we were raised to lead. If your a so called "Failure to Society," then this is a book that would relive your soul. You will finally discover that you are not alone. To George, I wanna say thank you for everything, and I love you with all my heart and soul. I dont want to see, this hell sent tragity? We are seperated unlawly. How could this be? Like the life I lead, When I love, Someone ends up to leave. I wind up with a broken heart, that will forever greeve!
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