Juvenile Rehabilitation

Paper Summary:

The paper contends that, despite some evidence pointing towards a greater need to "lock down" juveniles, the rehabilitation strategy is much more effective and is morally correct. The paper explains the rehabilitation model as based upon the concept of "curing" an offender of his or her criminal mindset and behavior. The paper maintains that retributive justice will ultimately result in more crime because it makes juveniles harbor a lifetime of hate towards society whilst a rehabilitative system creates a greater ability to change juvenile offenders into valuable members of society.

From the Paper:

"Historically the juvenile court system was created as an alternative to the current adult system for processing delinquents. It was built upon the premise that rehabilitation was a much better fundamental strategy for dealing with juvenile delinquents than the retribution model. However, recent statistics have shown an increase in juvenile violence as well as other forms of crime. In addition, there have been overwhelming statistics which point to the fact that juvenile delinquents are more than likely to commit crimes upon their release from prison. These crime waves have brought more and more juvenile offenders back to adult courts, and a greater public debate has been ongoing about the success of the rehabilitation model."

Sample of Sources Used:

• Thomas, Matthew. "Keeping Control While Reaching for Rehabilitation: Juvenile Hall Culture" Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Society of Criminology, Royal York, Toronto <Not Available>. 2007-04-26
• DeBrovner, Caroline. ""I Know Why You Wanted Me to Read This Book." Bibliotheraphy as a Tool of Intervention and Rehabilitation with Juveniles" Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Society of Criminology, Royal York, Toronto, 2005-11-15 <Not Available>. 2007-04-26
• Rees, Carter. and Freng, Adrienne. "Juvenile Case Processing: Where Have All the Juveniles Gone?" Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Society of Criminology, Royal York, Toronto <Not Available>. 2007-04-26
• Griffin, Tim., Barthe, Emmanuel. and Weicko, Fil. "Predictors of Juvenile Case Processing Outcomes" Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Society of Criminology, Royal York, Toronto <Not Available>. 2007-04-26

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