Thank you for the opportunities to read this book. I have attempted it on a number of occasions but unfortunately I haven’t been able to get into it.

This had such huge potential- there is a real commercial space for a politically charged expose on American youth justice, especially in shops like mine. Surely the success of Piers Morgan's Women who Kill shows this. The book has an outstanding cover, strong title and blurb but the content is too academic for them. By far the most frustrating feature is the repetition and the near constant references to "the previous chapter", "in chapter 6", "as previously argued " etc that is very disruptive to the narrative flow. The most rewarding chapters feature case studies and how they led to law changes. There seems a disconnect between the book and marketing.