Describe Three Alternatives To Incarceration That Juvenile Courts Currently Use
1. Examine the underlying historical and economic reasons as to why the quest for alternatives to incarcerating offenders in jails and prisons.
2. Describe three alternatives to incarceration that juvenile courts currently use.
3. Discuss the significant and societal and individual benefits of imposing sanctions or punishments that do not involve removing an offender from his/her family or community. Strayer University
Historical and Economic reasons
In the early 1920’s and 1930’s instead of placing a juvenile offender into custody the patrol officer would either return the juvenile to the parent with a warning or place them with a school or church program. Detaining youth in juvenile facilities are expensive. In Illinois alone it cost taxpayers about 85thousand dollars per year to house juvenile offenders. They also believe that housing the juveniles does not work because it fails to improve public safety or rehabilitate the youth that have been sentenced to the juvenile detention. According to the Office of Justice programs, if it is not a major offense such as rape, robbery or murder, then the juvenile offender could easily and effectively be rehabilitated in a community base supervision and intervention program. Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention (OJJDP) …show more content…
It is the court decision to decide what type of program to place a juvenile offender into. These decisions are based on rather the crime requires incarceration to protect the public or if the offender can be rehabilitated through one of the other alternatives. In the United States there are over 3,000 correctional facilities to house juvenile offenders. It is also pretty costly. So there are several alternatives to incarceration that can be least expensive for the state and also can be detrimental to help the
2. Describe three alternatives to incarceration that juvenile courts currently use.
3. Discuss the significant and societal and individual benefits of imposing sanctions or punishments that do not involve removing an offender from his/her family or community. Strayer University
Historical and Economic reasons
In the early 1920’s and 1930’s instead of placing a juvenile offender into custody the patrol officer would either return the juvenile to the parent with a warning or place them with a school or church program. Detaining youth in juvenile facilities are expensive. In Illinois alone it cost taxpayers about 85thousand dollars per year to house juvenile offenders. They also believe that housing the juveniles does not work because it fails to improve public safety or rehabilitate the youth that have been sentenced to the juvenile detention. According to the Office of Justice programs, if it is not a major offense such as rape, robbery or murder, then the juvenile offender could easily and effectively be rehabilitated in a community base supervision and intervention program. Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention (OJJDP) …show more content…
It is the court decision to decide what type of program to place a juvenile offender into. These decisions are based on rather the crime requires incarceration to protect the public or if the offender can be rehabilitated through one of the other alternatives. In the United States there are over 3,000 correctional facilities to house juvenile offenders. It is also pretty costly. So there are several alternatives to incarceration that can be least expensive for the state and also can be detrimental to help the