Community Based Treatment Model

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Community Based Treatment Model A thirteen year old boy named John Black has been adjudicated for possession of a firearm while on school grounds. He was sentenced to 5 years probation and has been ordered to participate in a community based treatment program. Following balance and the restorative justice model, the Associated Marine Institute (AMI) and Challenge of Development Center are two community based programs which will provide behavioral modification, positive role-models, emotional changing, and intellectual functioning in order to make life changing adjustments and skills needed to be rehabilitated back into society. The balance and restorative justice models were created in the interest of the community and the juveniles. By definition the balanced approach to juvenile probation is, “to protect the community from delinquency, to impose accountability for offenses committed, and to equip juvenile offenders with the required competencies to live productively and responsibly in the community.” See Dennis Maloney, Dennis Romig, and Troy Armstrong, “(The Balanced Approach to Juvenile…show more content…
He will learn that there are consequences for his actions and serve the community to reimburse them for his actions through community service. From being removed from the community and placed in either of these programs, the community will be safe from further criminal behavior he may partake in. Each program offers counseling so John will be able to fix his family relationships and how he relates to people. Skills will be taught in order for the juvenile to learn differently and succeed so he will be able to better serve his community as a law abiding
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