The correction field today seems to keep growing with the get tough on crime personality that the police are taking now. They are taking all sorts of people to jails and prisons now even for small offenses. For instance, there are more juveniles in today than there ever where before. In 1995 there were around 7,800 juveniles that were being incarcerated. The goal of any justice system is to keep the people safe from delinquents and to rehabilitate them as well. However, many states do not have funding to do the rehabilitation programs that these kids need (Juvenile justice). The people who make these policies are not always able to get these programs into the facilities to achieve what they are supposed to, so the kids end up just sitting there waiting out their term. The places that do put the extra money into the programs that help rehabilitate the juveniles have been shown to decrease the juvenile offenses. However, these programs take time and money they do help. While the increase of juvenile incarceration facilities help keep our society safe while they are in there it is useless unless we try to make policies that try to give the juveniles a chance to get better or when they get out of the facilities they could go back to committing the offenses that got them there in the first place.
There are many different kinds of rehabilitation programs and they range anywhere from aggressive rehabilitation like boot camp, which teach kids the meaning of respecting authority, it teaches them useful skills that they could use in their everyday life like mechanics and also teaches them values. But then there are the less aggressive like the anger management meetings, drug rehabilitation. The list keeps going on, but all of these facilities do not do a thing if they are not being put through these programs that are proven to help.
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Wow, Travis! You have about 17 different topics here--all which would be very relevant and engaging! Before you begin drafting, let's talk about possible directions...maybe after you've done some preliminary research.
ReplyDeleteThe whole "Boot Camp" thing is crazy, isn't it?