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Alice Goffman: How we're priming some kids for college — and others for prison
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In the United States, two institutions guide teenagers on the journey to adulthood: college and prison. Sociologist Alice Goffman spent six years in a troubled Philadelphia neighborhood and saw first-hand how teenagers of African-American and Latino backgrounds are funneled down the path to prison — sometimes starting with relatively minor infractions. In an impassioned talk she asks, “Why are we offering only handcuffs and jail time?”
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TED.com
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Tedtalks;TED;Talks;crime;culture;inequality;prison;race;violence;TED2015;2015
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