Delinquency Prevention Model

The first important ingredient in the G.R.E.A.T program is the instruction of life skills is the foundation of the program. The program is intended as an immunization against delinquency, youth violence, and gang membership for children in the years immediately before the prime ages for introduction into gangs and delinquent behavior. In accordance with a study by Dr. Esbensen in 2000, delinquency often serves as a precursor to gang involvement, the GREAT program focuses on providing life skills to students to help them avoid delinquent behavior and resorting to violence to solve problems. Communities need not have a gang problem in order to benefit from the program as its primary objective is prevention and is intended as an immunization against delinquency, youth violence, and gang membership.

I have almost 18 of working with at-risk youth to provide intervention, diversion or employment services and program referrals starting in 1998 with the Mayor’s Gang Intervention Project Pride Program as a Youth Outreach Worker I. My population target was at risk a high-risk, gang-impacted 12 to 18 year old participants at the Gardner Community Center located in a highly gang-impacted neighborhood where there is a multi-generational Norteno gang influence from one of the oldest gangs in the city of San Jose, Varrio Horse Shoe. I was in charged of implementing pro-social activities like educational and recreational field trips, which included college campus visits and teamwork oriented recreational activities like white water rafting and camping

This particular gang intervention face various barriers, but also have support agents who make the intervention possible for at problem youths. A barrier to this program

This paper's purpose is to introduced the nonprofit organization boys and girls club of America explaining more about their involvement in helping preventing gang affiliation in youth , through activities children find interesting .The BGCA hope their mission will be fulfilled in preventing adolescents juvenile behavior such as joining gangs so they can have a chance at a future before it’s too late .The paper will introduce the BGCA and problems they face along with personal suggestions that could be solutions to fix the problems through coats estimation , budget and organizational designs.

These comprehensive gang and delinquency prevention programs uses different techniques and to direct youth to positive alternatives. It begins at the local level by using community leaders and Club staff to discuss local gang issues, design a community-strategy and clarify each organization’s or person’s role in providing services to the youth. Meanwhile on the local

There are several positive and successful programs that are put in place in which involves the help and deterrence of youth from engaging into gangs. Such task of helping out the youth and future generations takes time and commitment. Possible solutions of getting involved in helping the youth that are in the gangs to get them off the streets are implementing the same gang model that they already know in which involves the commitment of one to another as members of a close-knitted family but without the drugs and violence. With the ideas and belief that they have already known would be easier to implement and develop programs that they are familiar to. Such programs should instill the same love, respect, and belonging as one would receive when joined a gang; therefore, it gives them another option of committing themselves in a positive way as a model citizen. It gives them

Intervention and prevention programs play a big role is reducing recidivism. As we know some programs can be beneficial, however some others have less effect on reducing recidivism. However there are three principal of effective Intervention: The risk principal, the need principal and the treatment principal. First let’s look at Risk principal which focuses strictly on individuals that could benefits from the program. Not every program can be applied to all offenders or all at risk individuals. Each program has its own targeted population which is very important that intervention program is targeting the right group of individuals. For example we cannot simply target city that has lower poverty level. Because it doesn’t mean that everyone who

This helps to ensure their success by closely monitoring their actions and making sure they’re staying on track. Parole officers’ main goals are to decrease recidivism, promote the juvenile’s safety and wellbeing, and to hold them accountable for their own behavior. There are six different approaches to probation: deterrence, treatment, confrontation, restorative justice, counseling, and behavioral tactics (Shwalbe, Maschi, 2009). The deterrence aspect focuses on giving youth the expectation that if they commit a crime, legal authorities will find out about it and punishment is inevitable. This forces the juveniles to think about if the costs of committing an illegal act outweigh the benefits or vice versa. When the punishments are viewed as severe, crimes are less likely to be committed. Probation may also be used alternatively to serving a sentence in juvenile detention centers. For minor offenses, it is sometimes viewed that probation or parole may be more beneficial to the juvenile than incarceration would

Chapter 11 focuses on preventing delinquency for children who are at risk. Having antisocial behavior can lead to delinquent acts. This chapters gives an overview on how programs are designed to prevent delinquency. The YMCA and the Boys and Girls Club are great examples of delinquency prevention programs. In fact, the public health approach was one of the first efforts to classify the many different types of delinquency prevention activities. The activities for prevention are called primary, secondary, and tertiary. Primary focuses on helping troubled youths get access to health care services and general prevention education. Secondary interviews children who are more likely to be at risk for becoming offenders. Tertiary prevention interview

Ward and colleagues feel that the primary focus with the model has been reducing “various deficits present in the individual” while paying “insufficient attention to the person and the idiosyncratic goals that he/she may wish to address” (Looman & Abracen, 2013, 30). In response to the RNR model, Ward has proposed an alternative model called the Good Lives Model (GLM). Ward states that the GLM “promotes the enhancement of strengths, skills and abilities… in an attempt to promote a ‘good life” (Looman & Abracen, 2013, 31). It is argued that people are viewed as practical decision-makers and that the focus should be on “helping offenders acquire the core competencies they require in order to engage in valued activities” (Looman & Abracen, 2013, 32). While Ward and colleagues suggest that this model is better than the RNR model, Ogloff and Davis (2006) mention that there is no empirical support that favors the use of the GLM for

Crimes, criminal behavior, and incarceration have been a part of society since man became “civilized”. While that may have been enough for the crimes of yesteryear, people like John Augustus realized that not every crime deserves incarceration, and he developed what has become the modern day probation and intermediate sanctions section of the correctional system. These programs were developed as a response to prison overcrowding and overburdened probation systems in our country. Where we used to focus on casework, now we focus on supervision, and technology allows us to monitor electronically, send prisoners away to boot camps, or even halfway houses in order to reduce prison overcrowding and recidivism at the same time. These programs have

Syke and Matza state that “much delinquency is based on what is essentially an unrecognized extension of defense to crimes, in the form of justification for deviance that are seen as valid by the delinquent but not by the legal system or society at large.” In this case techniques of neutralization seem to be a set of different excuses which are quite fragile. I want to mention some of them, which have the highest possibility of appearance in our particular situation. The first technique is called “Denial of responsibility”. It means that some students will probably argue that “Everybody else is doing it” or that the forces of competition pushes them to act immorally and to accept the offer. Nevertheless, this point can not be used as an official

According to the NIJ, National Institute of Justice, recidivism is defined as: “A person’s relapse into Criminal Behavior, often after the person receives sanctions or undergoes intervention for previous crimes. A study of 30 states shows that 67.8% of approximately 404,638 state prisoners that were released in 2005 were re-arrested within five-years.” (NIJ,2014 June) Prevention of relapse into criminal behaviors should be a top priority for Correctional facilities. There are programs that when implemented correctly, have

School-Based programs is a program that operates in the respective school to prevent students from joining gangs. Most school in the United States have some sort of school based activities to keep young students out of trouble and under surveillance if a parent or a guardian is not home to monitor the kids. The strategy the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention recommends is “in-school safety and control procedures” to interfere and identify students that might’ve been exposed with gang, “experience more meaningful, effective, and enjoyable” by hosting gym activities for students to participate and play sport games as well as be orientated on playing the game and having fun, and “formal links to community-based programs” which leads to opportunities for getting a job, references, contacts to become successful in life.

When a juvenile commits an act that would be criminal if committed by an adult, the juvenile is determined to be delinquent. Delinquent acts may include crimes against persons, crimes against property, drug offenses, and crimes against public order. Delinquency prevention efforts seek to redirect youth who are considered at-risk for delinquency or who have committed a delinquent offense from deeper involvement in the juvenile justice system (Deling, 2014).