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"Deborah Ellis, activist and award-winning author of The Breadwinner interviews young people involved in the criminal justice system and lets them tell their own stories. Jamar found refuge in a gang after leaving an abusive home where his mother stole from him. Fred was arrested for assault with a weapon, public intoxication and attacking his mother while on drugs. Jeremy first went to court at age fourteen ("Court gives you the feeling that you can never make up for what you did, that you're just bad forever") but now wears a Native Rights hat to remind him of his strong Métis heritage. Kate, charged with petty theft and assault, finally found a counselor who treated her like a person for the first time. Many readers will recognize themselves, or someone they know, somewhere in these stories. Being lucky or unlucky after an incident of shoplifting, or the drug search at school, or hanging out with the wrong kids at the wrong time. The encounter with a mean cop, or a good one, that can change the trajectory of a kid's life. Couch-surfing, or being shunted from one foster home to another. The effect of youth crime on families (the book includes the points of view of family members as well as "voices of experience" -- adults looking back at their own experiences as young offenders). The kids in this book represent a range of socioeconomic backgrounds, genders, sexual orientations and ethnicities. Every story is different, but there are common threads -- loss of parenting, dislocation, poverty, truancy, addiction, discrimination. Most of all, this book leaves readers asking the most pressing questions of all. Does it make sense to put kids in jail? Can't we do better? Have we forgotten that we were once teens ourselves, feeling powerless to change our lives, confused about who we were and what we wanted, and quick to make a dumb move without a thought for the consequences?"--

Die Autorin (Verfasserin des Buches "Women of the Afghan War") beschreibt in Romanform die Lebensbedingungen in Kabul unter der Herrschaft der Taliban anhand der Geschichte eines jungen Mädchens, deren Vater von den Taliban verhaftet wurde und die nun - als Junge verkleidet - für den Lebensunterhalt der Familie sorgt. (DÜI-Sdt)

Foreword / by Don Hicks, managing director, Multiverse Investments, Detroit Area, USA -- Adapt or die : the problems facing traditional supply chains -- Surviving in today's fast-moving topsy-turvy world -- Dynamic alignment : a heuristic to cut through complexity -- High-performance supply chains do not just evolve -- "Outside-in" design for supply chains -- Seeing the world through the eyes of your customers and other key stakeholders -- Tailored supply chains give flexibility -- Competing on differentiation -- Decision making at a faster clockspeed -- Decision support systems, analytics and tools for faster, better decisions -- Working in an omni-channel world -- Designing the optimal array of pathways to market -- Critical internal capabilities -- Shaping the appropriate subcultures to propel operational strategies forward -- Digital strategies -- Developing a digital supply chain via automation, digitisation, iot and blockchain -- From a "static" to "dynamic" supply chain philosophy -- Disrupting the organisation and increasing clockspeed -- Future business models -- Focusing on true value, scale and efficient use of resources -- Transformation delivered -- With all its moving parts : one step back; two steps forward -- Endnotes -- Selected bibliography -- Index.

For two years, Ellis traveled across the United States and Canada interviewing Native children. The result is a compelling collection of interviews with children aged nine to eighteen. They come from all over the continent, from Iqaluit to Texas, Haida Gwaai to North Carolina, and their stories run the gamut; some heartbreaking; many others full of pride and hope.--