Corrections and Treatment Tunsghen Anderson CJS/240 05/13/2012 Deanna Beaubouef Corrections and community based treatments in the Juvenile Justice System have a variety of proactive programs and rehabilitative efforts to deter crime. These programs are designed and can help juvenile offenders with modifying their behavioral issues, provide therapy to rehabilitate their mental state of mind, and prevent criminal activity in the long run. Treatment options are divided into two smaller categories: community-based treatment and institutionalization. These two types of treatment programs are specifically designed for juvenile offenders. These treatment programs will help get juvenile offenders back on the right track towards a positive lifestyle.
Atiyyah Burgess English 3 E-zone Essay/ We Beat the Street We Beat the Street is very inspirational and up lifting. It potentially gives youth a different view on life and helps them to make wise and reasonable decisions that will lead them success. It also shows youth how to face peer pressure, gang violence, drug use and the difficulties of being young and African American. This book places a positive image on every reader. We Beat the Street aims toward encouraging youth to be determined to succeed, inspires youth to learn from other people’s mistakes and teaches youth to believe in overcoming struggles of life.
Making the effort to ensure that a higher level of education is attainable for all citizens would be considered a step in the right direction towards educating youth. Education should also be made available to prisoners. By making education available to prisoners, they could be given the opportunity towards becoming successful in society when they are released. Treating the drug crisis could help reduce the amount of repeat offenders here in North Carolina. Drug intervention programs and rehabilitation centers help to keep people from using and aid in helping addicts “kick the habit”.
Malik Thompson Ethics The juvenile court System is a very good system, and is one that is well needed. Without it, how else would we punish the youngsters that make some wrong decisions? Three ways I would fix the problem here in the United States is that, I would have more harsh punishments for those who commit the crimes; I would have a better rehab process to prevent further crimes, and finally I would implement a mandatory parenting class for parents of violators. With the combination of these three ideas, plus other people’s ideas out in the world, we can all come to help to make this world and safer and better place to live and raise our children in. The first thing that I would change would be to enforce harsher punishment for crimes so as to defer young teens from making the same mistakes again.
A minor needs more one on one based care due to the fact they are more influential during this stage in their life. In order to reduce the likely hood of a juvenile committing crime during adulthood, law makers need to ensure that the minor not only learns their lesson but has a positive experience as well. By providing this positive experience the juvenile is more apt to continuing the same pattern. In closing; while adults receive a hearing while be tried for crime, a juvenile should be able receive the same
During this era members in society began to recognize the developmental difference between the juvenile delinquent and the adult criminal offender. The new focus was on rehabilitating the juvenile and repairing the family in order to assist them in becoming more productive members of society. The juvenile justice system was developed based on a rehabilitative model that would focus on the mitigating factors surrounding the juvenile’s delinquency and ensure the juvenile is provided with the necessary programs to successfully recover their lives. The juvenile justice system would take into account childhood abuse and the child family situation and develop programs designed to change their perception and behavior and assist in restoring the family. While this was the focus of the juvenile justice system
Activities for teens can be difficult to find, which makes it even more important for public libraries to provide them. Teenagers need a lot of support from their community and public libraries are a great source of support. Offering many services for teens may help them stay out of trouble. It is also important that public libraries provide a safe place for teens to feel comfortable coming to for help with any problem they may have. Services for teens are one of the most important things that all public libraries should
A third possibility is the juvenile court’s expanding jurisdiction over abuse and neglect cases.Oversight of abuse and neglect cases and of the social service agencies whichdeliver services to families has become a major portion of the work of the juvenile court” (Hanson, 1996) . “The juvenile court of the future should be able to take advantage of community resources more effectively by turning to volunteers and public-private partnerships for support. Communities seem ready to give their time and resources to children and families. The challenge for each court will be to identify the most effective ways by which communities can be organized to work with the court on behalf of children” (Hanson, 1996). Corrections: There are a few sections that need to be addressed in order to make a better future for juvenile justice system.
The body of the victim was found with pills in hand and on the table in front of her, a laptop open with an apparent suicide note on screen. The victim’s home was in disarray when she was found which tends to be a sign of a struggle. With that being said, there were no markings on the victim’s body that leads me to believe that there was a struggle. Although the victim’s sister claims she was a neat freak, which doesn’t rule out the thought of a struggle. The neighbor claims that he saw the victim’s boyfriend speeding out of her driveway two days prior to her body being discovered.
When considering the “best” way to equip teens, the first problem arises because it is important to keep in mind that what one individual view’s as the best way, another might view as the worst way. First, supplying teens with strategies to succeed in life are of utmost importance. The best way to do this is for a professional to be able to pinpoint a troubled teen and then lend them the resources that will guide them in the right direction. For educators it is paramount that researching an at-risk teen’s file will help make sound decisions on what are the best tactics to steer and guide the student in the appropriate direction. The second problematic aspect is taking into account exactly what “challenges” with which teens are faced.