Transcript Juvenile Justice Chapter 11

Juvenile Justice Chapter 11
Response of Corrections
Corrections for Juveniles
• Goal of corrections is to successfully
return youth to their family, school and
community
• Graduated Sanctions: premise is a based
on deterrence.
– Whether the consequences of committing a
crime is greater than the benefits.
– If person believes that benefits are greater,
then a crime will be committed
Promising Sanctioning Programs in
a Graduated System
• JJ System must include programs that are
less restrictive than confinement, but more
intense than probation.
• Continuum of care for juveniles must
include a wide range of sanctions
designed to increase offender
accountability
Promising Sanctioning Programs in
a Graduated System
• Four Types of interventions
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Immediate Sanctions
Intermediate Sanctions
Secure Confinement
After-care/re-entry
• Immediate Sanctions
– Diversion mechanism to hold youth accountable
– Includes Community based supervision
– Substance abuse treatment, anger management,
mental health counseling, tutoring, mentoring,
parenting programs
Promising Sanctioning Programs in
a Graduated System
• Intermediate Sanctions hold youth
accountable to their actions through more
restrictive and intensive interventions short
of secure care, including:
– Probation (Most Common form)
– Intensive supervision
– Electronic monitoring
– House arrest
– Boot camps
– Alternative schools
Probation
• Probation
– John Augustus is the father of probation
– Goals are to:
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Protect Public
Hold Juveniles accountable
Improve delinquent behavior
Rehabilitation
– Probation Officer has two key functions:
• Personally supervising and counseling youths
• Serving as a link to community services
Community Based Corrections
Programs
• Philosophy is treatment and rehabilitation
– Foster homes
– Group homes
– Youth Service Bureaus
– Halfway houses
– Community Service
– Nonresidential Day Treatment Alternatives
Non-secure Residential Programs
• Group Homes
– Professional corrections staff that provides:
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Counseling
Education
Job Training
Family Style Living
Holds 12-15 youths
Structured environment
Youth attend schools
Used extensively in all states
Non-secure Residential Programs
• Foster Homes:
– Family like setting
– Used for children who have been neglected
– Social Service and court referrals
• Substance abuse treatment
– Structure environment
– On-site school
– Skills training
– Group counseling
Secure Programs
• Training Schools
– Vary in size
– Some resemble adult prisons
– Structured environment
– School
– Job training
– Pro-social skill training
– Substance abuse
Secure Programs
• Boot Camps
– Stresses military style discipline
– Physical fitness
– Vocational training
– Drug treatment
– Designed for non-violent first time offenders
Parole
• Planned, supervised early release from
institutionalization that is authorized by
correctional facility
• Provides individual with freedom with
monitoring by Aftercare or Parole officer
• Objective is to involve family, school and
community in rehabilitate and transition
youth into community
Youth Programs
• Types of Programs for Youth
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Anger management or Prevention
Substance Abuse treatment or Prevention
Wilderness Program
Group Home
Day Treatment
Alternative School
After School
Psychiatric Program Promising Sanctioning Programs
in a Graduated System