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tegies to use for troubled juveniles that have behavior problems and others that have been involved in criminal activity. Certain strategies can help teens before they actually become involved in criminal activity. These strategies is also good for intervention and rehabilitation of troubled juveniles. Throughout this paper I will be comparing and contrasting boot camp and correctional facilities for juveniles. Teenagers go through a lot throughout their teenage years and we are held responsible for helping them survive the obstacles that come their way. With crime rate steadily rising there have been many options for parents to consider for turning their child’s life around before they head down a road of destruction.
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This program is sot up to be like a military basic training program with the goal of teaching juveniles positive behavior skills, recidivism decrease and better antisocial skills with all this intensive training it is in hopes of enforcing for the juvenile not to reoffend. Before the judge make the decision of sending juvenile to a correctional facility we would like for him to have learned from his mistakes. “There are generally three types of boot camps: the military drilling style that focuses on strict discipline; (2) the rehabilitative model; and (3) the educational/vocational model. Juvenile boot camps may employ elements from the rehabilitative and educational/vocational models, but continue to make the military drill style the central theme” (Khol, 2010). Juveniles that participate in boot camp is similar like a correctional facility whereas both are required to be obedient to the rigorous daily schedule of activities. Boot camp has drills that have to be followed, manual labor is performed by the juvenile and physical training like the military. When a juvenile is placed in a correctional facility manual labor, and physical activity do not have to be performed. However both boot camp and correctional facility have to be woken up early each morning. In boot camp juveniles are kept busy with numerous of different things on their schedule …show more content…

Race and ethnic is divided by most of the correctional facility and gang members which means that this is the most dominant influences of juvenile’s behavior while locked up. Violence influence juveniles that’s incarcerated to be a part of a gang for protection against other inmates. With the prisons being so overcrowded prison can be fearsome from murderer’s covered in tattoos to dangerous drug dealers carrying homemade shanks. These type of inmates beat and kill each other for any given reason over minor disagreements and arguments. Gang members in correctional facilities has spreaded all over the American prison system. However, making correctional facilities less crowded mean they want be as dangerous and the inmates will require less gang protection. Boot camp teach juveniles different strategies to make wise decisions in life such as not being affiliated with gang members and how to control anger issues. “Boot camp increases the sense of responsibility that comes from a communal living atmosphere, self-discipline that comes from truly caring about the effects of their actions, and a positive attitude of empowerment that come from making positive life goals and working towards them. These are benefits that a correctional facility don’t offer a trouble juvenile” (Sawyer,

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