Juvenile Justice Chapter 11

Response of Corrections

Corrections for Juveniles

• Goal of corrections is to successfully return youth to their family, school and community • Graduated Sanctions: premise is a based on deterrence.

– Whether the consequences of committing a crime is greater than the benefits.

– If person believes that benefits are greater, then a crime will be committed

Promising Sanctioning Programs in a Graduated System • JJ System must include programs that are less restrictive than confinement, but more intense than probation.

• Continuum of care for juveniles must include a wide range of sanctions designed to increase offender accountability

Promising Sanctioning Programs in a Graduated System • Four Types of interventions – Immediate Sanctions – Intermediate Sanctions – Secure Confinement – After-care/re-entry • Immediate Sanctions – Diversion mechanism to hold youth accountable – Includes Community based supervision – Substance abuse treatment, anger management, mental health counseling, tutoring, mentoring, parenting programs

Promising Sanctioning Programs in a Graduated System • Intermediate Sanctions hold youth accountable to their actions through more restrictive and intensive interventions short of secure care, including: – Probation (Most Common form) – Intensive supervision – Electronic monitoring – House arrest – Boot camps – Alternative schools

Probation

• Probation – John Augustus is the father of probation – Goals are to: • Protect Public • Hold Juveniles accountable • Improve delinquent behavior • Rehabilitation – Probation Officer has two key functions: • Personally supervising and counseling youths • Serving as a link to community services

Community Based Corrections Programs • Philosophy is treatment and rehabilitation – Foster homes – Group homes – Youth Service Bureaus – Halfway houses – Community Service – Nonresidential Day Treatment Alternatives

Non-secure Residential Programs • Group Homes – Professional corrections staff that provides: • Counseling • Education • Job Training • Family Style Living • Holds 12-15 youths • Structured environment • Youth attend schools • Used extensively in all states

Non-secure Residential Programs • Foster Homes: – Family like setting – Used for children who have been neglected – Social Service and court referrals • Substance abuse treatment – Structure environment – On-site school – Skills training – Group counseling

Secure Programs

• Training Schools – Vary in size – Some resemble adult prisons – Structured environment – School – Job training – Pro-social skill training – Substance abuse

Secure Programs

• Boot Camps – Stresses military style discipline – Physical fitness – Vocational training – Drug treatment – Designed for non-violent first time offenders

Parole

• Planned, supervised early release from institutionalization that is authorized by correctional facility • Provides individual with freedom with monitoring by Aftercare or Parole officer • Objective is to involve family, school and community in rehabilitate and transition youth into community

Youth Programs

• Types of Programs for Youth – Anger management or Prevention – Substance Abuse treatment or Prevention – Wilderness Program – Group Home – Day Treatment – Alternative School – After School – Psychiatric Program Promising Sanctioning Programs in a Graduated System