The Ineffective Alternative for Youthful Offenders: Juvenile Boot Camps
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Summary
America’s youth are becoming more and more involved with crime, while juvenile crime rates are skyrocketing. As these crime rates increase, a need for better and more proficient means to detain and rehabilitate youth is apparent. Juvenile boot camps were the solution that many professionals thought would be the best way to deal with this problem. As with all forms of incarceration and rehabilitation, which are employed by America’s criminal justice system, the effectiveness and methods of operation of juvenile boot camps have been questioned. The purpose of this research is to show that juvenile boot camps are not always effective and cost-efficient enough to be solely used to solve the problem of juvenile delinquency in America. Several studies will be used to demonstrate this idea. A few methods and ideas of improvement on the effectiveness of juvenile boot camps will be suggested.
Table of Contents
- America's youth are becoming more and more involved with crime, while juvenile crime rates are skyrocketing
- As juvenile crime rates began increasing dramatically in 1978, new methods of detainment and rehabilitation were developed
- Boot camps are often acceptable to the public because they 'appear to be ‘tough on crime,' while at the same time applying much-needed structure and education to the lives of adolescents?
- Numerous studies of adult and juvenile boot camps have shown that graduates do no better in terms of recidivism than offenders who were incarcerated or, in some cases, than those sentenced to regular probation supervision.
- Other evidence confirms this use of military structure.
- Evidence indicates that juveniles released from boot camps fare no better than their counterparts who are detained in more traditional correctional facilities
- Nearly every study conducted on the use of juvenile boot camps as an alternative method of punishment and rehabilitation for youthful offenders exhibits the same discouraging evidence toward their use
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