Summarize "No Matter How Loud I Shout a year in the life of juvenile court" by Edward Humes

In his book Humes mentions that an experienced judge can predict the punishment meted out to a juvenile just by looking at the size of the "When a is a sixteen of an inch , it will almost certainly end in probation . A quarter to a half inch , add some time in the hall . An inch or so in thickness and the likely sentence is one of the county 's two dozen juvenile camps . And over two inches , the kid is probably a Sixteen Percenter (Humes 1997 35

Another major issue : that Hume

discusses in his book , is the fact that juvenile offenders with financial resources receive much more lenient sentences . He states that rich kids get their sentences tailored according to them while the poor kids receive sentences tailored to their crimes . He cites that this injustice occurs because rich kids and their parents can hire lawyers who prove to the judge through character witnesses that the rich kid is a law abiding and morally righteous and that his criminal behaviour is a deviant occurrence which can be corrected through rehabilitation and does not warrant a long sentence However the poorer kid cannot prove the case for rehabilitation and ends up with a longer prison sentence

Hume discusses the need to reform the young offender . Offenders should be caught early at the age of 13 or even before that when they first start to cut school and commit their first offence or right after they join their official gang

And , finally , when I was growing up

I learned how to load bullets into a gun

I learned how to carry it and aim it

and I learned how to shoot at the enemy

to be there for my homeboys , no matter what (Humes 1997 , 17

Currently the system doesn 't...