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Title	:	No Matter How Loud I Shout: A Year in the Life of Juvenile Court
Author	:	Edward Humes
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Special Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 400 pages
Published	:	May 7th 1997 by Simon Schuster (first published 1996)
Categories	:	Nonfiction. Sociology. Law. Mystery. Crime. True Crime

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In an age when violence and crime by young people is again on the rise, No Matter How Loud I Shout offers a look inside the juvenile court system that deals with these children and the impact decisions made in the courts had on the rest of their lives. Granted unprecedented access to the Los Angeles Juvenile Court, including the judges, the probation officers, and the children themselves, This book provides evidence of the system's inability to slow juvenile crime or to make even a reasonable stab at rehabilitating troubled young offenders. Humes draws a portrait of a judicial system in disarray.

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Original Title:	No Matter How Loud I Shout: A Year in the Life of Juvenile Court
ISBN:	0684811952 (ISBN13: 9780684811956)
Edition Language:	English
Literary Awards:	Edgar Award Nominee for Best Fact Crime (1997)

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I knew the juvenile justice system was a mess, but now I know just how big a mess. Solidly researched and expertly written in vivid, often intensely gloomy prose, Shout presents the stories of dozens of kids who, for better or for worse, get sucked into the court system, along with the hopelessly undermanned crew of prosecutors, defense attorneys, judges, probation officers and--saddest of all--parents all scrambling desperately to find the tipping point that will save America's youth. It's a

A heartbreaking look at the juvenile justice system from the inside. Edward Humes spent a year studying the Los Angeles juvenile justice system. He spoke with judges, attorneys, probation officers, parents and children.The end result is a damning look of a system that despite its best intentions are failing. Children who need help are routinely shunted aside when they commit crimes, until they commit a serious crime - murder, armed robbery, drive by shooting. Cases are repeatedly delayed and

Very well done. Heartbreaking, but a worthy read. I work in the juvenile justice field and while it has changed tremendously in the last 20 years, it surprisingly has stayed the same . I've seen kids released who should have been detained based on the Judge's dislike of their probation officer. Likewise kids detained on a minor first offense that posed no danger to anyone based on an unjustified recommendation from their probation officer. Until petty politics and departmental games stop

I fundamentally disagreed with so much of how the author perceives troubled youth. Throughout this book, Humes argues (seriously!!) that we should return to the 19th century system of prosecuting minors for offenses such as disrespect to authority and skipping school, and that the way to make our juvenile justice system more effective is to give harsher penalties for all offenses. I felt his arguments were judgmental, shortsighted, and lacking context.Humes acknowledges that the juvenile justice

This book broke my heart. Over and over and over and....This is an extremely well-written book, in which Humes manages to show us the humans behind the label 'criminal'. He shows us the inside and the backdrop of their lives, how they rationalise, think, what they want and how they feel, and how they are (and have been) treated by caregivers, society and the system, and finally how the many chance factors that play into how their fate is decided in court. The books aim isnt to relieve the

This is top-notch nonfiction writing. The author was granted access to a public interest space (juvenile court) that is often closed to the public and appears to have managed to interview lots of relevant folks--judges, lawyers, juveniles, family members, victims. The book is a bit dated at this point: it covers 1993-1994; gangs are huge, juvenile crime is up, crime in general is up, computer technology is relatively uncommon. I spent much of the book wondering how the statistics have (or

Written by a guy teaching an English/writing class in juvenile hall, this is an insightful look into the lives of kids wending their way through the juvenile justice system. At its core, the sytem (or at least the LA system Humes focused on at the time of the writing), is horrendously broken. At the time of the writing, the system focuses most of its efforts on the worst offenders. Being so over-burdened, the system can't afford to do anything else. As a result, the early offenders get slaps on