CJS 240 Week 6 Assignment Paper
Christena Isaac
1/29/12
CJS 240 Week 6 Assignment
When a juvenile offender is committed of a crime there are different courses of action that the court may proceed with to help them become rehabilitated in the community. A juvenile offender can be offered a community based treatment or be institutionalized. A community based treatment can consist of probation, restitution, vocational programs, or counseling. Depending on the type of crime that is committed helps determine what is necessary for the juvenile. Probation is a commonly used community based treatment program that is ordered by the courts to a juvenile that is not considered a threat to society and did not commit a violent crime. Probation can consist of any amount …show more content…
Counseling can be used in conjunction with probation to help the juvenile work out the issues he/she may be having that is causing them to act out in criminal ways. If a child has a family that his/her parents abuse drugs, has suffered abuse or neglect, this may cause them to act delinquent and believe that their behavior is normal. Through counseling the juvenile can work through their issues and learn other ways that are acceptable to society to voice their aggression or other emotions to provide them with tools to have a better …show more content…
A detention center houses and feeds the juvenile while monitoring their every move. A huge issue with juveniles who are institutionalized is that there is a serious lack of funding for these programs. In many cases the male detention centers receive more of the funding, and better care than female detention centers. Detention centers are over crowded, have high numbers of minority, and do not actually help the juvenile realized what they have done is wrong and why it is wrong. The juvenile justice needs to be concerned with these issues because once the juvenile has served his/her time they may end up back in a detention center or turn into an adult criminal. This will not help reduce the amount of crime. Juveniles need a huge support system, and many times this is not the case with their family or members of the community once being released from detention centers. Once being released the juveniles are than placed on parole where they must adhere to rules and guidelines very similar to juveniles placed on
1/29/12
CJS 240 Week 6 Assignment
When a juvenile offender is committed of a crime there are different courses of action that the court may proceed with to help them become rehabilitated in the community. A juvenile offender can be offered a community based treatment or be institutionalized. A community based treatment can consist of probation, restitution, vocational programs, or counseling. Depending on the type of crime that is committed helps determine what is necessary for the juvenile. Probation is a commonly used community based treatment program that is ordered by the courts to a juvenile that is not considered a threat to society and did not commit a violent crime. Probation can consist of any amount …show more content…
Counseling can be used in conjunction with probation to help the juvenile work out the issues he/she may be having that is causing them to act out in criminal ways. If a child has a family that his/her parents abuse drugs, has suffered abuse or neglect, this may cause them to act delinquent and believe that their behavior is normal. Through counseling the juvenile can work through their issues and learn other ways that are acceptable to society to voice their aggression or other emotions to provide them with tools to have a better …show more content…
A detention center houses and feeds the juvenile while monitoring their every move. A huge issue with juveniles who are institutionalized is that there is a serious lack of funding for these programs. In many cases the male detention centers receive more of the funding, and better care than female detention centers. Detention centers are over crowded, have high numbers of minority, and do not actually help the juvenile realized what they have done is wrong and why it is wrong. The juvenile justice needs to be concerned with these issues because once the juvenile has served his/her time they may end up back in a detention center or turn into an adult criminal. This will not help reduce the amount of crime. Juveniles need a huge support system, and many times this is not the case with their family or members of the community once being released from detention centers. Once being released the juveniles are than placed on parole where they must adhere to rules and guidelines very similar to juveniles placed on