No Matter How Loud I Shout Summary

Edward Humes is a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and a PEN Award recipient for his nonfiction work, No Matter How Loud I Shout: A Year in the Life of Juvenile Court. His training and experiences reflect No Matter How Loud I Shout because he has immersed himself in the court system of California and spent one year in the justice system in Los Angeles, Inglewood, and Pomona, California, which gave him insight into the juvenile system and the necessary skills and resources to construct this book. Along with this book, Humes has written thirteen other nonfiction books. They range from discussing the G.I. Bill to looking at American high schools. Humes writes about the American people and the effects of social life and the government. No Matter How Loud I Shout aligns with this subject matter because it breaks down the juvenile court system and its effects on American youth. Humes has constructed an account of LA, California’s juvenile justice system and the children who pass through it in the mid-1990s (XIV). This carefully researched book chronicles the arrests of seven teenagers and their experiences both in juvenile court and while serving time. He describes the legal processes and interactions between prosecutors, public, private

Duncan’s case is infamous because of the murder and Beckstrand is eager to try his case. Humes illustrates that juveniles like Duncan are entitled to unlimited delays in the juvenile system. Duncan represents a teenager who seems to not care about his actions or the process of the juvenile court system. Beckstrand is faced with challenges of locating her start witness and arguing the case of Ronald Duncan. Hume is illustrating in the first chapter that there are people working to fight against the broken system, but because of the lack of resources, people such as Duncan will not receive a punishment suitable for their