Disadvantages Of Juvenile Correctional Methods

75% of youth in correctional facilities for delinquency are not in for a serious violent felony crime (Ross). Many minors in such facilities are held because their families cannot take care of them. Drug use, often stemming from the parents, is prevalent in teens detained in juvenile detention. Additionally, teen pregnancy and sexual abuse are common among the incarcerated young adults. Most of them have some level of a psychiatric disorder, however, a small percentage of them actually receive treatment. An unhealthy home environment, drug addiction, and mental trauma all contribute to the cycle of juvenile detention. In fact, 66% of youth who have been arrested will become repeat offenders within 24 months (“21 Juvenile Repeat Offenders

In the United States of America today when a person has been committed of a crime they are trialed through a system to conclude if they are guilty as well as determine their best fit punishment of due to the crime. From what most people know when an adult is put through this process they have the right to a quick and speedy trial with a jury to determine if they are guilty and they are given their punishment. However, within our system the process of punishment and sentencing is significantly different if the defendant of the crime is under the age of 18, if they are under 18 they are legally considered a child and are not put through the same system and punishment with which adult are. They are but through what we call a juvenile court system.

In Contrast to Bryan Stevenson’s “Just Mercy” stories of juveniles being tried as adults, Jason Zeidenberg in the article “The Risks Juveniles Face When They Are Incarcerated with Adults” strongly emphasizes the dangers and consequences that juveniles face when they are tried as adults. Zeidenberg states the consequences of juveniles being raped, assaulted, committing suicide and the effects of being victimized. Children who are housed in the same facility as Adults is not a good idea nor a good mix, according to Zeidenberg a “15-year-old girl was sexually assaulted in Ohio by a deputy after she was placed in an adult jail for a minor in

In 1971, the Federal Bureau of Prisons relocated some low risk woman inmates in an overcrowded Virginia prison to a minimum-security prison in West Virginia that housed young males (Schmalleger & Smykla, 2015). This was the birth of coed prisons, which house both female and male inmates in one facility (Schmalleger & Smykla, 2015). Cocorrections are how both females and males interact in prison under the guidance of one administration (Schmalleger & Smykla, 2015). There are approximately 52 coed prisons in America, housing an estimated 23,000 males and 7,000 females (Schmalleger & Smykla, 2015). Since these coed prisons began, it has been argued that they provide a benefit to some correctional problems listed below.

The most excellent official course of action for dealing with juveniles engaged in status offenses such as drinking, smoking, breaking curfew, running away from home, truancy, in my opinion, is community service. Juvenile status offenders should be rehab, in my opinion, working the drug and alcohol centers for adults, mental consumer centers, and hospitals, so that they can get a feel of what life can be like from breaking the lesser offenses. The above offenses are not severe crimes; however, these offenses can lead to a more serious crime, which may involve criminal punishment. Why can the justice system stop juvenile engagement status offenses before it becomes a significant problem? When corporal punishment was removed from schools and household, juveniles saw their day of justice as a right in court.

The criminal justice system has a branch for juvenile offenders. Established in the early twentieth century; it is the responsibility of this division to decide the fates of youthful offenders. This is administered by family court with support of social workers and family. With the increased number of youthful, violent offenders, many are being processed and sentenced as adults. Important issues such as culpability, severity of the crime, accountability, constitutional rights of the offenders and victims, and probability of rehabilitation,

There have been many studies conducted that examine ways in which the juvenile justice system responds to female offenders. Historically juvenile female offenders have been treated under status offense jurisdiction (Zahn et al., 2010, p. 10). United States Courts would exercise the principle of “parens patriae” to place the female in detention as a form of punishment for misbehavior (Sherman, 2012, pp. 1589-1590). This principle also remains prevalent as it pertains to how the juvenile justice system currently responds to juvenile female offenders.

Alternatives to secure detention and confinement for juveniles are approaches that help avoid juveniles from being detained in a secure detention facility or a confinement facility. Secure detention facilities hold juveniles who are entering into the juvenile justice system generally for two specific reasons. Those reasons are to ensure the juvenile will be in attendance for all court hearings and for the safeguard of the community from future crimes. Confinement facilities house juveniles that have been adjudicated and assigned to the custody of correctional facilities. Secure detention and confinement of juveniles tend to do more harm than good. Research has shown that secure detention and confinement facilities have a negative effect on

In order for them to behave well they need to have the solitary room. They have seen when a juvenile is sent to the solitary room they come out with a trauma but there behavior improves. Another thing they have observed is that they juveniles feel depressed for being in the solitary but this makes them reflect not to get in trouble. The secretary will also respond to, there is no other way to punished them we have seen their behavior improve when they are isolated from the rest of the inmates. According to the philosopher Mary in order to for the juveniles to have personal identity they need to have ability to feel

Let’s say your child has been tried as an adult, would you want your child housed with an adult, who is over the age of eighteen? Honesty, no, what parent would want their child to be housed with adults? The parent would be concern of the juvenile’s well-being. How does a thirteen years old who is housed with a forty-five year old make any sense? There should be separation of housing and rehabilitation when the juvenile who is under the age of 18. When the juvenile turns eighteen or twenty-one it would be appropriate for juvenile to be transition to adult housing. Juveniles who stand trial as an adult, again I mention should not be housed with adults because of possibilities of physical and sexual abuse from adult inmates, juvenile psychological

The financial, emotional, and the behavioral problems can be solved in different ways. Different programs should be introduced to help the kids with parents in prison. For instance, increasing the contacts between the parents and the children may prove to be very instrumental in solving the behavioral issues. It would also be very important to treat the kids as a special group that needs to be protected. By protecting the group of children, cases of stigmatization in schools and the community will be reduced

3. Some of the special problems female inmates face include health care, vocational trainning and work oppurtunities, potential sexual abuse by staff, substance abuse, and prblems relating to their children.(Seiter, pg219)

The distinctive cultural groups contrast to conventional norm of subculture has demonstrated the increase of prison enrollment. Norms that is labelled as deviant that can range from pickpocketing, stealing, rapes and murders. These vast differences of degree of deviant behaviors causes juvenile jails or regular jails. From the mass enrollment with the general populations in prison of the same sex that can range from different severity. While in jail many unwilling sexual intercourse if performed. Rape, is the unwanted and force sexual intercourse from someone of the same or opposite sex. According to the Editorial Board, “Previous studies have found that juveniles housed in adult facilities were at greater risk of sexual assault than

The juvenile justice system in America has been through numerous phases of growth. In recent years, it has endured extensive changes that have taken place as a product of reforms made to revitalize the innovative principle of juvenile justice, the idea of bringing individual justice and treatment to the heart of the system. This assessment of related literature looks particularly at the accessible studies on juvenile detention centers in order to prove the negative effects of taking a disciplinary approach in juvenile justice. It starts with an historical evaluation in order to place the increase of detention centers in context. This paper subsequently goes on to talk about detailed problems

When one thinks of the juvenile corrections system, they tend to gender this institution, focusing mainly on young boys. Due to this, one often neglects the thought there are also young girls that are in the system. This may be due to the fact that when compared to young boys within the juvenile corrections system, in previous years the girls consisted of a small portion within in this space. However, according to recent studies, girls in the juvenile system has been rapidly increasing over the last 20 years (Levintova, 2015). This is an issue which needs to be acknowledge due to the fact that young women are caught in this system for starkly contrasting reasons when compared to young males. These reasonings are described in the book Girls in Trouble with the Law by Laurie Schaffner which we will further explore.