" In an era when the mothers and fathers of privileged children are cast as helicopter parents, chastised for protecting their offspring from even the most mundane slights and injuries, children who end up in the juvenile detention system are essentially handed over to the wolves. Adolescent risk taking is both normative and developmentally vital. But in these children we punish it, and we do so with particular ruthlessness in children of color. "

― Christine Montross , Waiting for an Echo: The Madness of American Incarceration