Juvenile Offenders in Adult Prisons

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The paper argues that imprisoning juvenile offenders in adult correctional facilities is counter-productive. The paper explains that adult prisons focus on punishment rather than rehabilitation, which increases the likelihood that these offenders will become violent career criminals. The paper further explains that the harsh conditions of adult prisons only encourages the perpetration of further crimes once these juveniles are released back into society.

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"Because juvenile offenders in adult prisons are exposed to a criminal culture characterized by violence and abuse, adult prisons tend to degenerate a wayward juvenile delinquent into a hardened career criminal. Daily survival requires finding ways to fit into and be accepted in the adult inmate culture, but most juvenile offenders experience difficulty submitting to authoritarian relationships with adult inmates. Adjusting to this harsh environment requires accepting physical and psychological intimidation as a part of daily lives and developing physical and psychological intimidation behavior themselves in order to survive. (Eisikovits and Baizeman 5-20)"

Sample of Sources Used:

• Abbott, Jack. In the Belly of the Beast: Letters from Prison. New York: Vintage Books, 1991.
• Earley, Pete. The Hot House: Life inside Leavenworth Prison. New York: Bantam, 1995.
• Eisikovits, Z., and Baizeman, M. 1983. "Doin' Time: Violent Youth in a Juvenile Facility and in an Adult Prison." Boston: Offender Counseling, Services, and Rehabilitation. Volume 6. No. 3, 1983.
• Fagan, Jeffrey. "The Comparative Impact of Juvenile Versus Adult Court Sanctions for Adolescent Felony Offenders." Law and Policy. Volume 18, 1996
• Flaherty, Michael. An Assessment of the National Incidence of Juvenile Suicide in Adult Jails and Juvenile Detention.. Champaign: University of Illinois Press, 1980.

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