Juvenile Offenders With Substance Abuse Problems

In order to properly address mandatory incarceration for chronic juvenile offender’s criminal activities, it is important to begin with psychological assessments and evaluations. Half of our youths have experienced some type of psychological trauma such as depression, PTSD, personality disorders, anxiety, anger issues, or dissociation, just to name a few (Moroz, K. 2009). In order to determine mandatory incarceration, all of these factors must be considered. I will agree with most of our society that is , if they are a danger to society and serious of the crime, they need to be put into detention, where they cannot cause harm but where they can received the right intervention program and mental health treatment for them, it’s the law. The juvenile justice system is to rehabilitate not punish young offenders. Punishment is not the answer in solving their delinquent behavioral patterns.

According to Ruddell and Thomas (2009), in 2006 it was estimated that there was 93,000 juveniles in either a detention center or juvenile correctional facility; however, the arrest rates have decreased at least by 2,000 since 1993. Many juveniles on release are reoffending quickly since most of them have been locked up throughout their developmental years and their brain did not get the right cognitive development it needed to help make the right decision. Many different states and correctional institutions have started their own different programs to help decrease recidivism rate in juveniles. Two programs that will be examined further are the Capital Offender Group that was implemented by Giddings State School in Texas, and the Juvenile Cognitive Intervention Program that was implemented by the State of Wisconsin Department of Corrections.

According to (Juvenile Offender) young people today are more malleable and can be easily influenced. It is mainly believed that the criminal actions by young offenders might be influenced by such external forces such as parental neglect, and inappropriate living conditions or with relations within their family. It is important to note that instead of seeing a rehab program as a form of punishment. Young people who are undergoing such a program should understand they are voluntary and should consider the program as a positive opportunity to change their lives for the better.

Introduction: Recidivism or, habitual relapses into crime, has time and time again proven to be an issue among delinquents, which thereby increases the overall juvenile prison population. This issue has become more prevalent than what we realize. Unless a unit for measuring a juvenile’s risk of recidivism is enacted and used to determine a system to promote effective prevention, than the juvenile prison population will continue to increase. Our court system should not only focus on punishing the said juvenile but also enforce a program or policy that will allow for prevention of recidivism. So the question remains, how can recidivism in the juvenile prison population be prevented so that it is no longer the central cause for increased

Should Juveniles be waived to adult court Philosophy 14 Nov 98 Should juveniles be waived to adult court. There has been tension between teens (pre-teens) and adults for thousands of years, and the question how to deal with the youth of a culture, in a punishment sense, has been with us for just as long. Socrates, for example, stated that "children show little respect for there elders." Since Socrates time largely due to the spread of guns and drugs, younger and younger children are committing violent crimes. Children that have special needs or have committed a criminal act have been subject to state protection since, 1838. The first juvenile court was established in Chicago in 1890. The assumption, that was made

The need of diversion programs in juvenile correctional settings is on an increase. Two conflicting impulses dominate the desire to decrease the number of reoffending juveniles. The first is a compassionate approach that concentrates on treating the youth whereas the second approach uses punishment to protect their focus, which is community safety (Artello, Hayes, Muschert, & Spencer, 2015). It is important to note that not all individuals are impacted in the same way therefore many approaches aimed towards assisting the youth within the justice system exist. Due to the Progressive Era Reform, the state has the ability and responsibility to protect the welfare of children leading to treatment that hopefully divert them from continuously

For many years, people have debated what is the best course of action when it comes to juvenile offenders, whether it is in the community’s best interest to incarcerate our youth for the safety of the community or do we spend our resources on rehabilitation in order to protect our future? Many people believe that safety and security of the society is most important which may be why as American’s we rely heavily on incarceration compared to any other nation. People have failed to notice, however, that incarceration is ineffective, very costly, and far from the original perspective of juvenile justice. By rethinking our current approach to juvenile justice, we can fix our recidivism numbers, budget problems, and in the long run

In order to deal with juvenile delinquent behavior there needs to be other alternative options available to the legal system instead of incarcerating every apprehended juvenile. One such option is the creation of juvenile boot camps. With each new initiative, like juvenile boot camps, there are certain goals that need to be achieve to determine if a specific program is successful. In this program, as well as other alternative juvenile rehabilitation programs the primary goal is to reduce recidivism. Unfortunately, studies show that juvenile boot camps have not been successful in reducing overall recidivism rate for juveniles.

The Adult Correctional system in the United States is growing at an alarming rate due to the increase in recidivism among adults. How do we combat the problem? The answer is quite simple. We start at the very beginning when the adults are involved in the Juvenile Justice System, under the age of eighteen. Juvenile delinquency is an ongoing issue within the United States that presents a challenge, not only to the respective court, but to the correctional system. It is often thought that the Juvenile System is separate from the criminal justice system due to the age of the youth. However, a lot of the same laws apply in Juvenile Court. A delinquent can be adjudicated with an offense and given a determinate or indeterminate sentence should the court feel that the youth should enter into the legal custody of the respective State. There is a strong correlation

The utilization of evidence based programs have proven to have positive outcomes for youth such as; reduced anxieties, and depression, academic success, support systems and skills for employment. Characteristically, juvenile delinquency follows a route comparable to that of usual adolescent development. Delinquent behavior is a path followed and not just something that children randomly engage in and therefore, through the understanding of the developmental paths of at-risk youth, researchers believe that early interventions can help to increase positive outcomes (Youth.Gov, 2017).

Have you ever wondered what happens to juvenile delinquents when they go to prison or detention centers? If you have, this article is perfect for you. some psychologists still struggle to find an effective treatment for juvenile delinquents. Recently they have started discovering new ways to deal with the mistakes of today's youth. This article will describe the effective and ineffective treatments and programs that psychologist are using on juvenile delinquents in today's society.

Over the years, the United States has been focused on finding alternative methods that will reduce crime rates, but there is still a larger issue at hand- the high rates of youth incarceration and racial disparities. The United States is the leading country in the world as far as juvenile incarceration is concerned. Many juveniles are taken to juvenile jails every day and this issue has raised a lot of questions from the public and private organizations. Studies conducted by the U.S Department of Justice’s office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency prevention have shown that the juvenile crime rates and juvenile incarceration rates have significantly been reduced over the past couple of years but there is still more that can be done so that these rates can hopefully, in the near future become very close to non-existent (Puzzanchera, 2013). After spending countless of hour’s conduction research,

With regard to juvenile offenders, what should the overall goal of imprisonment be? For adult offenders, prison has always been, in this country, a matter of protecting society and deterring potential offenders; however, juvenile offenders present the greatest opportunity for rehabilitation. It seems plausible for the justice system to pursue education and cognitive restructuring for these offenders. Young offenders, particularly adolescents, may engage in “reckless behaviors,” but they “may be caused, in part, by age-related physicological changes in brain development” (Hansen). Strangers and peers, especially those within the school system or neighborhood, seem to have the greatest impact on the developing mind. Perhaps the best example of society perpetuating delinquency is the crack epidemic of the late-1980s to mid 1990s. Levitt and Murphy, researchers from the University of Chicago, studied the effects of crack cocaine on society and found that “most social ills resulting from the crack epidemic were caused by drug gangs fighting for territory and killing each other, not from the ill effects of the drug, as lawmakers had long claimed” (Kingsbury). Adolescents, growing up in

Finally, literature on the juvenile justice system often focuses on program implementation and effectiveness at addressing rehabilitation, as well as diversion techniques within the system (Greenwood, 2008). This review audits these problems in detail and establishes them within the bigger struggle in the juvenile justice system to rehabilitate youth offenders.

Delinquency prevention offers a plethora of programs which range anywhere from substance abuse education and treatment, family counseling, youth mentoring, parenting education, educational support, to youth sheltering. Many of these, if not all are helpful. The problem is: the situation of juvenile delinquency persists. Moreover, some