Juvenile Justice Reflection

In Summary, It appears that even those youth who have had positive experience with either or both the Department of Human Services or the Juvenile Justice System still associate themselves and their situation with a negative stigma. The frustration and fairness of the systematic process seems to be seen across the board even in those who have been able to positively move forward, given the interview information the multiple changes in school, placement and/or the number of professionals involved when these agencies are involved seems to be impactful no matter how severe the incident that brought them into the system is. The trauma associated with the involvement added to the reason for the involvement seem to be impactful on some level amongst
The moving around in schools also is directly connected to the youth being able to identify areas of difficulty but also being less likely to receive formal assessment (identification of the learning issue or pinpointed individualized identification) or assistance with the overall problem even in the event they received assistance, this was also impactful to those youth who were above average intelligence. The juvenile justice label was significantly impactful as many youth stated that once in that system the need to establish their “toughness” and to protect themselves they had to re-engage in activities that had the potential to have them pick up additional charges, stay on probation longer and maintain their involvement with the activities that brought them into the system. Labeling definitely has a negative impact on youth in the system even if that impact is only from how they perceive themselves due to the