Drug Court is judicially supervised, and it handles cases of substance abusing offenders. Drug court helps the offenders recover from their drug abuse and become productive citizens once again. The goal is to stop the abuse of alcohol and other drugs. Drug court consists of a highly specialized team, which addresses the nonviolent drug related cases. The court has a team of staff, attorney’s probation officers, substance abuse evaluators and treatment professionals.
Their key arguments are: when a youth does something, he doesn’t think twice. This is because their brains are still developing. The youths who commit crimes should be sent rehabilitation, so they do not commit crimes again. Many researchers have come to a conclusion that putting youths in prison with other criminals can effected the mentally, some of those effects turns them into criminals. Now I am going to talk about my point of view.
In the criminal justice system of many countries, the purpose of imprisonment is to punish the criminal, prevent further crime and to rehabilitate the offender. How rehabilitative do you think the prison system is? The prison system is influential in rehabilitating the offenders. It seems to change the lives of offenders by providing different types of rehabilitative programs. First of all prison system provides the Vocational education training (VET) which helps in gaining the employment in future and therefore likely to work in the civilized society and less likely to reoffend (Weatherburn, 2004).
Punishing people who commit crime is the job of the prosecution lawyer; they attempt to put the violators behind bars (Gardner, T. & Anderson, T., 2012). Rehabilitating those that have committed crimes is also the responsibility of the corrections. During their stay in the jails/prison, the violators can be subject to programs to help reform them to be productive citizens once they get out of jail/prison (Gardner, T. & Anderson, T.,
Jails were managed by the local sheriff department they housed individuals convicted of misdemeanors, and crimes from small infractions to severe crimes like murder. Jail and Prison Comparison King Henry II who demanded that these buildings needed to be built introduced the first jails in England in 1166 they were first called “gaol”. Originally these jails were going to be used for detaining offenders awaiting trial. Between the fourteenth and eighteenth centuries vagrancy started to become a huge problem. Jails were now used to displace people like the poor or the mentally ill.
Community Corrections also known as probation or parole is the means of supervising felons and misdemeanants outside of a correctional facility. There is a common misconception among the American people that when a person commits a crime, then he or she will be removed from their community or society and put into a correctional facility. Foster Burke (2006). Community corrections can be very beneficial to the individuals who are placed on probation in a sense that it gives the offenders a second chance to redeem what they have done wrong in their communities. Community corrections vary from city to city and state to state.
In doing so, this gang becomes his family. He then "works towards the gang's antisocial goals” (www.Prison-gangs.com). If, for whatever reason, the new inmate is not suitable to gang life, he is often then the prey of gang members. Those who do not submit to becoming a gang member or who are not wanted by the gangs
An adults sentence is to punish the offender for the crime he or committed. Once a juvenile enters the correctional system he or she could serve time in juvenile hall or boot camps. The juvenile system believes that with the right kind of help and guidance the juvenile can be rehabilitated, this why the juvenile system focuses on rehabilitation. The adults that are put into confinement are not often rehabilitated, because that is not what the adult system is about, it is about punishment for the crime that he or she has made on society. The juvenile system is more lenient than the adult system also.
Is rationale to assume that parental and family risk factors played a vital part in the life of a criminal, because they are a product of their surroundings. Understanding the mental process of a criminal behavior can assist on identify the problems such as antisocial behaviors. It identifies the individuals with their parents and other family members of the family. Taking a look at the parents and siblings will give researcher a different spectrum that can or may not voucher for the actions of the criminal, it brings all the issues about their past to surface. Parental and family risk factors effects and shapes the individual into the person that they are today.
If offenders are not properly monitored for alcohol consumption while on probation and not receive the treatment they need, they often end up reoffending and ending right back in the system. An alcohol monitoring program can effectively address the above issues and offenders can be sentenced to participate in the program as an alternative to incarceration. This will free up our jail and/or prison space and allow appropriate offender population to be held accountable for their behavior while out in the community rather than being housed prisons at a cost to the taxpayers. An alcohol offender’s needs, once they have been identified as being eligible for the program, can be completed during the presentence stage by the probation officer preparing the report for court. Some criterias that can be used as a guideline in seeing if an offender is eligible are: 1) age; 2) gender; 3) level of education; 4) level of risk(s); 5) instant offense conduct; 6) criminal history; 7) employment history; 8) alcohol (and other substances) abuse history and; 8) treatment history (successes and failures).