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Question

What measures should community corrections take to best serve juveniles? Give specific examples. Could new measures also be cost effective?

Do juveniles deserve prisons that are different from adult offenders? Elaborate

Answer 1

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This brief answer comes to you from my personal reflection as a Criminal Justice Professional, Instructor and former manager of a juvenile detention cell block in Washington, DC.

I would contend that community corrections measures that are best for youthful offenders (YO) are typically the ones that recognizes the entities victimized by the YO; keep the YO in the community and accountable for their deviant behaviors; involve all of the YO's capable guardians in their treatment/reintegration plan; and have active achievable measurable outcomes for the YO to not re-offend and become a more productive citizen.

Specific community corrections examples would be: probation; restitution; home confinement; institutional corrections and boot-camp (Bates and Swan, 2019) to name a few. I support the boot-camp concept followed by and intensive supervised home confinement.

I believe juveniles require a different closed-custody correctional atmosphere separate from adults for two primary reasons.

1. The juvenile justice system considers certain behaviors of youth to be deviant (not criminal) and subject to detention (not incarceration) based on their age. Thus they a labeled youthful offenders and not criminals.
2. Youthful Offenders and their subsequent petition (charge) denotes a lack of maturity and impulse control. Therefore, them being housed in an adult facility would inherently present them as vulnerable; and potentially subject to physical and psychological abuse (Bates and Swan, 2019)

Bates, K.A., and Swan, R.S. (2019). Juvenile Delinquency in a Diverse Society (3 ed.). Thousand Oaks,

CA: SAGE Publications.

Answer 2

This question has been highly debated for years in terms of should juveniles be tried as adults and be held in the same facilities. The system can best serve young offenders by having community corrections aide offenders in their rehabilitation. Community corrections in many parts of the United States have entered drug treatment programs, substance abuse therapy, case workers, child and family team meetings, etc. New measures like drug treatment programs could be considered cost effective to many when one considers the cost to incarcerate members of society compared to out-patient programs usually surrounding mental health issues.