JUVENILE BOOT CAMPS

Juvenile Boot Camps



Abstract

The main problem discussed in this paper is to check whether the Juvenile Boot Camps are effective and beneficial to use or not. For this purpose, a brief background of Boot Camps was given. The literature review discusses the brief history of Juvenile Boot Camps. The limitation discusses the ethical limitations of the paper due to its secondary research. After that, summary of the findings is discussed. Then data analysis is found. Methodology discusses the methodological application on this data. Then the findings and paper is concluded.

Table of Content

Abstractii

Review Problem1

Background1

Literature Review1

Limitations2

Ethical considerations3

Summarize the main findings3

Data Analysis4

Methodology6

Conclusion7

References8

Juvenile Boot Camps

Review Problem

The research problem is to see whether Juvenile Boot Camps are safe to use or not. This paper discusses the effectiveness of Juvenile Boot Camps whether these programs are beneficial and effective for the young offenders or not.

Background

Boot camp programs are a correctional sanction modeled after military basic training camps. According to the National Criminal Justice Reference Service (NCJRS), boot camps are in-prison programs that resemble military basic training by emphasizing vigorous physical activity, drill and ceremony, manual labor, and other activities that ensure that participants have very little or no free time at all. They are often referred to as shock or intensive incarceration. The first correctional boot camps originated in the adult correctional systems in Georgia and Oklahoma in 1983. Since then, correctional boot camps have grown rapidly within the adult correctional systems as well as juvenile correctional systems. They are now a part of many federal, state and local juvenile and adult jurisdictions in the United States of America (Wood, 1999).

Literature Review

For over 15 years, there are the U.S' camps for offenders, modeled on basic military training, emphasize discipline and physical fitness. It is only recently that legislators have begun to consider this formula as punishment for young offenders. The military-style penal institutions have proliferated in the United States in the 80 and 90 for three main reasons. First, in the 60s and 70s, some have questioned the fact that rehabilitation efforts were successful in preventing recidivism and protecting the population. For them, "nothing worked" and therefore, rehabilitation has lost its importance in the choice of sentence. Second, the principle of "get what we deserve" has supplanted the rehabilitation element of the sentence, meaning that the punishment should be proportionate to the crime. It was believed that the severity of punishment should be set according to the seriousness of the offense, not its author whose treatment needs or the risks it poses. Third, issues surrounding criminal justice have been politicized.

A working group on iron discipline for young offenders, appointed by the Minister, recommended the establishment of a program to the following key features: 16-hour days of highly structured, compulsory education, the port a uniform. An iron discipline is the key to the proposed program. Our government is determined to develop a program that will introduce young offenders the discipline and sense of responsibility. The men released from the camp of Georgia actually had a ...