Essay On Juvenile Boot Camp

Do you know a delinquent that can benefit from boot camp? How would you combat delinquency? According to Jerry Tyler, Ray Darville, and Kathi Stalnaker authors of Juvenile boot camps they state that boot camp are becoming a trend “As an example of the growth of boot camps in the United States, the National Institute of Justice reports that in 1987 only four state correctional system boot camp programs existed”. Juvenile delinquent boot camp derives from military boot camp along with their strict schedule and difficult agenda to break teenager’s bad behavior. Boot camp would benefit all troubled youths when all else fails this can be a solution. Boot camps should be mandatory for the following reasons to prevent future criminals, to bestow discipline, and for delinquents to get rehabilitation. To begin with boot camps was initiated to combat bad behavior of teenagers and prevent future criminals. In addition to Peter W. Greenwood collected information on boot …show more content…
According to authors Gordon Bazemore and W. Clinton Terry they state that a bond with the troubled adolescent can prove to be beneficial “One common protective influence that distinguishes at-risk youths who "make it" is an apparent bonding to conventional adults and to groups that facilitate successful maturation by providing opportunities for young people to gain a sense of legitimacy” (p.683). The challenge for boot camp staff is to create conditions where adolescents can nurture and develop as good individuals. Most teenagers are taught to hate authority naturally from parents or interaction from people that are anti-authoritarian. They never learn to give respect for laws that are in place to protect social and civilians. It’s a one way street for most adolescents. There are adolescents that make a choice to turn away from the life of crime and live in a life of abiding the