Jerry Flores: Caught Up: Girls, Surveillance, and Wraparound Incarceration

Caught Up: Girls, Surveillance, and Wraparound Incarceration, was written by Jerry Flores, someone dedicated not only to the study of juveniles in the criminal justice system but also to better understanding the effects of racial and gender bias on those in the criminal justice system. As a native of southern California, Flores interviewed and/or observed young girls (most of them Latina) in two key institutions in southern California: El Valle Juvenile Detention Facility and Legacy Community School. In these two locations Flores gathered significant evidence to support his argument that young girls (primarily Latina) who first encountered the juvenile justice system are more likely to become victims to the phenomenon of wraparound incarceration because of the ways in which the juvenile justice and educational systems treat them. …