JUVENILE OFFENDERS

Rehabilitation of Juvenile Offenders

Abstract

In this study, we try to explore the concept of the rehabilitation of Juvenile Offenders in a holistic context. The main focus of the research is the barriers from the general public in the rehabilitation of these offenders. The research also analyzes many aspects of their rehabilitation and the reasons for the barriers.

Rehabilitation of Juvenile Offenders

Introduction

In many ways the communities called youth groups and young people as "social risk" by their attitudes, habits, living situation. These names may vary such as gangs, bars, strikes, grasshoppers, thugs, hooligan, etc, but there are two things: first the concern and fear of them, and secondly the lack of distinction between what criminal activity is or just behavior deviation from the customs and traditions, or even worse, "deviant" by the socioeconomic constraints that they face and the absence of a family.

Description and Analysis

The problem has reached such a magnitude that aims to motivate and identify all of the emerging criminal policy relating to minors. This is serious considering that the crime problem is far more heterogeneous also that many of the behaviors and attitudes of these groups are not criminal, which should rule out intervention state repression (Johnson 2002, 45).

When talking about gangs and youth groups, "public safety" is used generally as synonymous with security in the streets and houses, forgetting that a true concept of the term should include other public and private freedoms, formed for basic rights and fundamental political rights, economic rights and social rights, which are never affected, or threatened, by the existence of these groups.

The situation has worsened because the citizens have been cultured to the solution of repression as the only means capable of defending against these threats to security. There is the reason for alarm that cause certain crimes are steadily increasing, as crimes against property; however, some of these cause great public alarm despite its relatively low level of violence, like the outbursts of handbags and purses just because they are performed by minors organized into groups(Greenwood 1999, 1).

Similarly, there are crimes that have increased exaggerated in previous years that affect basic rights like life, but not to cause public alarm provided to that severity. Such is the case of traffic accidents or circulation, generating a large number of deaths (in many countries in quantities substantially greater than voluntary manslaughter), and yet not cause a reaction and the results of equal concern.

By the same token, we can cite the non-conventional crimes (ecological, economic power abuse and abuse of authority) whose results have serious implications for the basic rights of all citizens, but fail to provoke a reaction commensurate with these results, unlike of the assaults on the streets(Brynes 2001, 12).

The distinction is between crime criminology (consisting of the actual volume of crime and their implications) and fear of crime (constituted by the perception of crime and the risk of being victimized). The perception of crime and the fear of being the victim of a gigantic crime and distorts reality, with a disproportionate leverage, ...