Hope and Survival: Jeff Hobbs on the Juvenile Justice System
In Conversation with Roxanne Coady on Just the Right Book
In this episode of Just the Right Book, Roxanne Coady talks with Jeff Hobbs about hope and survival in the juvenile justice system. Hobbs’s new book, Children of the State, is a deep look at juvenile detention and the path to justice, and how internal and external factors put so many of our youth at risk.
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Jeff Hobbs graduated with a BA in English language and literature from Yale in 2002, where he was awarded the Willets and Meeker prizes for his writing. He is the author of The Short and Tragic Life of Robert Peace, which won the Los Angeles Times Book Prize, Show Them You’re Good, and The Tourists. He lives in Los Angeles with his wife and two children.
Roxanne Coady is owner of R.J. Julia, one of the leading independent booksellers in the United States, which—since 1990—has been a community resource not only for books, but for the exchange of ideas. In 1998, Coady founded Read To Grow, which provides books for newborns and children and encourages parents to read to their children from birth. RTG has distributed over 1.5 million books.
