Current Issues: Child Welfare and Juvenile Justice - Children may be our future, but poverty, homelessness, and the school-to-prison pipeline are all too often theirs. These books address the millions of children each year who struggle in a world that has no safety net for them, moving from foster home to foster home, stealing food to eat, and winding up in juvenile detention where the trajectory of their life can become locked in a loop of hardship and incarceration.
