Marcus, who had turned 16, got a job working for Kentucky Fried Chicken in Little Rock, Arkansas. Charles, who is Marcus’s friend, got hired on at the same time. They started out as bitter enemies but somehow they grew to be wonderful friends. Marcus and Charles had nothing better in the summer with their time besides tearing things up and working. They would steal signs, parking meters and drag them behind his car, blow up mailboxes, and other destructive things. They thought they owned the world. When they would get caught by the police, they would just laugh because they would have more stories to tell their friends how cool they were. Marcus had started going out with a girl named Danielle. She was older and more experienced; so he really
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These are other options that exist for juvenile treatment then prison. In psychiatric and psychological care, having emotional scars is a way that teenagers called attention to their behavior. The root cause behind their behavior is through traumatizing event. In the 1950’s, there were two options giving to the juvenile offender: jail or the army. Many believe that the army would produce a mature adult out of the juvenile then the jail will ever do. Therefore, the concept of boot camp came along to replicate the disciplined environment as the military would produce. In an environment like boot camp, it’s putting the juvenile in a potentially hazardous area instead in a war zone. Several states have enacted laws with mandatory prison time for major crimes committed by a minor (Lawrence, 2010). A significant role in reforming our youth is through the quality of these programs. In a study done by Donna Bishop, youth who transferred to adult prisons had a thirty percent higher recidivism rate than those who remained in the juvenile system (Lawrence, 2010).
When school started back and Marcus had him a new girlfriend that had him head over heels for her. He was then reunited with his best friend Steve. One night Marcus was picking up Jessica from band practice and saw Steve as he was waiting on his sister. They started talking and decided to go to Marcus house. They had talked until three in the morning. Steve told Marcus that he thinks he got his girlfriend pregnant. Marcus knew the feeling, so he told him his story and not to take that road, then began to tell him all of his other
These are other options that exist for juvenile treatment then prison. In psychiatric and psychological care, having emotional scars is a way that teenagers called attention to their behavior. The root cause behind their behavior is through traumatizing event. In the 1950’s, there were two options giving to the juvenile offender: jail or the army. Many believe that the army would produce a mature adult out of the juvenile then the jail will ever do. Therefore, the concept of boot camp came along to replicate the disciplined environment as the military would produce. In an environment like boot camp, it’s putting the juvenile in a potentially hazardous area instead in a war zone. Several states have enacted laws with mandatory prison time for major crimes committed by a minor (Lawrence, 2010). A significant role in reforming our youth is through the quality of these programs. In a study done by Donna Bishop, youth who transferred to adult prisons had a thirty percent higher recidivism rate than those who remained in the juvenile system (Lawrence, 2010).
When school started back and Marcus had him a new girlfriend that had him head over heels for her. He was then reunited with his best friend Steve. One night Marcus was picking up Jessica from band practice and saw Steve as he was waiting on his sister. They started talking and decided to go to Marcus house. They had talked until three in the morning. Steve told Marcus that he thinks he got his girlfriend pregnant. Marcus knew the feeling, so he told him his story and not to take that road, then began to tell him all of his other