Wheelchair Warrior

Gangs, Disability, and Basketball

Melvin Juette, Ronald J. Berger (Autoren)

Buch | Softcover

192 Seiten

2009
Temple University Press,U.S. (Verlag)
978-1-59213-475-5 (ISBN)

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Melvin Juette has said that becoming paralyzed in a gang-related shooting was 'both the worst and best thing that happened' to him. The incident, he believes, surely spared the then sixteen-year-old African American from prison and/or an early death. It transformed him in other ways, too. This title tells Juette's story.

Melvin Juette is Community Service Coordinator of the Deferred Prosecution Unit of the Dane County District Attorney's Office in Madison, Wisconsin. Ronald J. Berger is Professor of Sociology and Chair of the Department of Sociology, Anthropology, and Criminal Justice at the University of Wisconsin-Whitewater

Preface
Introduction

Part I: Beginnings
1. Roots
2. In the Company of Peers
3. Gangs
4. The Shooting

Part II: Transitions
5. Road to Recovery
6. Breaking Away
7. A Motley Crew

Part III: Resolutions

8. Fundamentally Sound
9. Lost and Found
10. The Best of All Victories
Conclusion
Notes
Index

Verlagsort	Philadelphia PA
Sprache	englisch
Maße	140 x 210 mm
Themenwelt	Literatur ► Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte
	Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Sport ► Basketball
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
ISBN-10	1-59213-475-0 / 1592134750
ISBN-13	978-1-59213-475-5 / 9781592134755
Zustand	Neuware