Literacy in Juvenile Offenders

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This paper examines how the majority of youth in the juvenile justice system is illiterate, preventing school success and contributing to delinquency. It looks at how these illiterate juveniles are at higher risk for high school expulsion or dropout, pregnancy, alcohol and substance abuse, continued juvenile delinquency, and criminal conviction. It discusses how the government needs to address the behavioral and educational needs of these youths and how. by making a greater effort to understand their behavior and teach them how to read and writer, we can eventually reduce school dropout and delinquent behavior in the U.S.

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"The link between illiteracy and juvenile delinquency is one that goes way back. Michael S. Brunner, Visiting Research Fellow at the U.S. Department of Justice, reported that "the link between academic failure and delinquency is strong.... Schools are apparently contributing to the delinquency problem by continuing to provide traditional programming that... leaves many students, after six years of instruction, unable to read accurately, fluently and effortlessly with comprehension.... What brings about the delinquency is not the academic failure per se, but sustained frustration which results from continued failure to achieve selected academic goals (Citizens Commission on Human Rights, 2000)." "

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