{"product_id":"real-recognizes-real-david-c-brotherton-9781439922804","title":"Real Recognizes Real: The Credible Messenger Mentoring Movement","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe Credible Messenger Mentoring Initiative (CMMI), launched in New York City in 2012, is a transformative program where adults who had been in the justice system serve as mentors, role models, and life coaches for 16- to 24-year-olds. The program socializes and empowers these at-risk and formerly incarcerated youth offenders, diverting them from juvenile justice institutions and rehabilitation centers. It aims to build trust, deepen their ties to their community and family, and help them become peacemakers and role models for other youths.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eReal Recognizes Real\u003c\/i\u003e is the first in-depth study of the CMMI, focusing on the Washington, DC branch of the program, which is becoming a model for a new movement of anti-violent interventions. It shows the advantages of the CMMI being built on the love that members of a community have for one another rather than on outside intervention. The authors also explain how this state-run, non-profit program reduced recidivism rates and helped its participants, youth and mentors alike, develop more meaningful and lasting relationships.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFeaturing interviews with youths and their mentors, \u003ci\u003eReal Recognizes Real\u003c\/i\u003e evaluates the successes, challenges, failures, and lessons of the CMMI, while emphasizing its value in the campaign for juvenile justice reform.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn the series \u003ci\u003eStudies in Transgression\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e David C. Brotherton,Danny Kessler,Bahiyyah M. Muhammad\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1439922802\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781439922804\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Temple University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 01\/29\/2027\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 294\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.00lbs","brand":"David C. Brotherton","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":49001238266111,"sku":"9781439922804","price":42.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/real-recognizes-real-david-c-brotherton-9781439922804","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}