Juvenile Justice System Pros And Cons

a. A juvenile justice system based on a general theory of crime would involve programs that would prevent the potential to parents to ineffectively be a parent to their child at a young age, resulting in a child to have a lack of self control. Therefore, I would create a program that would teach parents how to correctly apply learned skills in order to properly teach their children right from wrong but to also praise the, for doing right. In addition,I would create a department in the local government that would monitor neighborhoods and that can respond to reports of improper parental behavior or abusive behavior. Finally, I would monitor foster homes to ensure that each and every child is being cared for properly and I would promote benefits to couples who adopt children, after extensive personality test of the couples.
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In a quick summary, the author believes that these scared straight programs will either promote gang affiliation in the teen because of the polices desire to turn them away from it or it will cause teens in the program to show off for the other at risk teams they are with. These two reasons, on average, cause about 13% of the individuals in the study to commit crimes that they otherwise wouldn't have if they weren't in scared straight. I think the authors alternative suggestion of big brother/sisters and community involvement would be two great ways to promote a teen’s social bond to activities that are non-criminal. On the other hand I don't think community service would work as one of these activities because I believe that in most at risk teens, it would promote a feeling that the activity is a punishment. I would suggest that the dad do what my parents did for me, I would promote promote that the father involve his child in more athlete activities that allow her to get her frustrations out in a healthy way such as a sport like lacrosse or basketball or soccer in order to promote good skills like