The Juvenile Corrections System

Family Integrated Transitions: A Promising Program for Juvenile Offenders with Co-Occurring Disorders, First talks about how once children are released from the juvenile correctional centers, the successful progress made by children is lost upon the time of their release. Children with substance abuse and co-occurring disorders are at risk of relapse and re-entry into the juvenile correction system. The goal of the organization is to observe and identify the key Physiological, biological, and environmental factors that would be part of the cause of re-entry for an individual. The program emphasizes that ethnicity, as an important factor to consider, since some groups have a higher rate of offending than others in urban areas. Substance abuse, …show more content…
The article also states that white reformers were the original founders of the juvenile correction system. The original founders had never intended it to benefit all children that would be entered into the institutions and that there was always was a sense that mostly upper-middle-class whites ran the corrections. This meant that many of the founders believed in the idea that Black children could be normalized and uphold their way of life and thought. The research in this article focused on the preferences and attitudes within a certain location. They had asked a series of questions that had been asking about whether or not the juvenile justice system should be more for rehabilitation rather than punishment. Results came back that those that lived in high crime rate areas that tend to be the victims were in support of the more punitive system. These respondents tended to be older and …show more content…
The study was conducted in Thailand, where the criminology department of the court had discovered that many of common theories about the causes of deviant behavior among juvenile did not support the rates and patterns that the children had been displaying. The researchers found that the home life with immediate family tended to have the most influence along with the community along with deviant peer groups. Within the study, the participants aged from 14-19 and were under probation under the authorization of the Department of Juvenile Observation and Protection. The test was a questionnaire asked questions about the exposure to the violence they had experienced, the violence they had experienced between, along with the violence experienced by the community. In conclusion to the study, they had made two groups of the subjects. The first group part took in offenses against illegal drugs, motor vehicles, and public disorder. This group was more against tradition and the culture in which they lived in. the second group had committed more theft and vandalism, and were more influenced by peers and had poor records in