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While brainstorming about a criminal justice topic, I thought about the fact that in the United States, according to the department of justice, out of 100,000 juvenile offenders released, 82% of these adolescent offenders were arrested again within 3 years. The fact is that most of the juvenile incarcerated in prison becomes worst than they were before they get imprisoned. The effectiveness of correctional programs is often measured by examining recidivism rates. Which means that the correctional programs used in juvenile prison is likely inefficient. Therefore, with this high rate of recidivism in the United States, I thought that it would be legitimate to research how does criminal rehabilitation could help juvenile offender avoid recidivism …show more content…
The authors define psychosocial maturity as self-control, perception, and liability of an adolescent. Dmitrieva, et al., through a research base on data from seven-year, longitudinal study of 1,171 male adolescent aged 14-25, finds that the negative institutional setting in which youth are placed harm and slow their development in the way that those among them incarcerated in secure facility have short-term declines in psychosocial maturity and theses youth when release are at higher risk for re-arrest. The authors’ think that the institutional placement of adolescent increases their level of antisocial. The authors recommend that States should focus more on effective community-based services for youth, rather than secure confinement, which can harm a youth’s psychosocial maturity in the short-term, and may increase the rate of re-arrest. States should also stay away from harsh treatment of confined youth by slowing their developing maturity, such treatment not only harms youth, but can have a negative effect on public safety as well, by making youth less able to act like responsible adults, and more likely to commit new
While brainstorming about a criminal justice topic, I thought about the fact that in the United States, according to the department of justice, out of 100,000 juvenile offenders released, 82% of these adolescent offenders were arrested again within 3 years. The fact is that most of the juvenile incarcerated in prison becomes worst than they were before they get imprisoned. The effectiveness of correctional programs is often measured by examining recidivism rates. Which means that the correctional programs used in juvenile prison is likely inefficient. Therefore, with this high rate of recidivism in the United States, I thought that it would be legitimate to research how does criminal rehabilitation could help juvenile offender avoid recidivism …show more content…
The authors define psychosocial maturity as self-control, perception, and liability of an adolescent. Dmitrieva, et al., through a research base on data from seven-year, longitudinal study of 1,171 male adolescent aged 14-25, finds that the negative institutional setting in which youth are placed harm and slow their development in the way that those among them incarcerated in secure facility have short-term declines in psychosocial maturity and theses youth when release are at higher risk for re-arrest. The authors’ think that the institutional placement of adolescent increases their level of antisocial. The authors recommend that States should focus more on effective community-based services for youth, rather than secure confinement, which can harm a youth’s psychosocial maturity in the short-term, and may increase the rate of re-arrest. States should also stay away from harsh treatment of confined youth by slowing their developing maturity, such treatment not only harms youth, but can have a negative effect on public safety as well, by making youth less able to act like responsible adults, and more likely to commit new