Ocean Tide Chapter Summary
A constant theme in the United States in the legal system is that criminals should be punished and the reasons for their crimes are rarely addressed. The Ocean Tides program is an innovative system rather than punishing juveniles it is an approach that hopes to rehabilitate adjudicated boys in Rhode Island within a year. Typically the more severe a crime is, the longer the criminal is sent away for. At the Ocean Tides program, 1 year is retrospectively the time that is used to help criminals readjust so once they complete the program their behavior will be better. The history of things begins on a dark road and that is people seek change, which for the juvenile system ultimately began in 1961. Although the juvenile court in Rhode Island was
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established in 1898, it was still in connection with the adult court. 1961, Rhode Island established the first family court in the United States which separated domestic issues from the regular court system (pg.7). Agnew’s theory of crime (pg.53) believes family to be the most influential life domain because it is where people develop their self which directs every other aspect of their life. With innovative ideas comes change and although Rhode Island being the first state to establish a family court, the Ocean Tides program showed that juveniles are not defined by one offense and that adjudicated boyd have the potential to succeed still in a society that downs on them.
Chapter 2 talks about the data that was collected for the Ocean Tides program.
Although many of the tables were interesting I felt the most compelled to the tables regarding child abuses, most recent charges and hobbies. Table A.6 shows the family structure of the Ocean Tide boys and I find it extremely interesting that 46% of the boys experienced emotional abuse from their biological fathers and 20% from their biological mothers. (p.29). Table A.6 shows that no boys lived in a single family home with just their biological father so one can infer from this that the emotional abuse is the most prominent in 2 parent households, probably under patriarchy. On pg. 144 Agnew talks about parenting practices and I think the author’s found such high emotional abuse rates among biological parents is because of poor parenting skills. Agnew (2005), pg. 146 infers that many parents possess traits like irritability and low self control and are more prone to engage in abusive parenting practices because their motivation and ability to engage in good parenting are reduced. Although I do not think violation of probation should be considered a charge, it is the most common violation alongside breaking and entering for the ocean tide boys according to Table A.10. The Ocean Tide boys committed 62.6% nonviolent crimes and 36.8% of violent crimes (p.30). My assumption is that the authors found these numbers because crime often has short term effects according to Agnew (pg. 94). Violation of probation is probably related to trying to see friends or drug activity and other nonviolent offenses like theft and burglary involve gaining money or valuable things. These are all short term and come with penalty which is why nonviolent crimes are double in percentage compared to violent
crimes.
Although technology is still a growing field, I expected videogames and computers to be one of the major hobbies rather than sports. I find it interesting because I feel like sports prevent conducive behavior. According to Agnew (p.50) delinquents desire lower goals because they reduce stake in conformity and may increase strain. I find participating in a sport has some type of gal so it’s contradictory to what Agnew says but when one dives further, the scenario seems comprehensible. For example if someone with a poor family life domain was trying to avoid that domain playing a sport would be logical because they would be further from home rather than playing a video game which can only virtually distract one’s attention for so long.
Chapter 3 of Turning the Tide illustrates figure 3.1 and states that everyone sits in some place along a continuum that stretches from non criminal to criminal. Agnew’s general theory of crime is useful in determining nonviolent and violent youthful experiences. Just like on the continuum a person’s location is shifting throughout time, Agnew on chapter 9 pg. 157 states that the life domains are also changing overtime and each one has a correlation on the other. The web of crime is important in comparing differences in violent and nonviolent youthful experiences. Chapter 4 of the Juvenile is focused on family as a life domain but more importantly poor parenting as a major source of strain. “It is generally accepted among researchers that children who are exposed to PIPV experiences emotional and behavioral problems that can reach into adulthood and that these experiences often lead to violent behaviors, but the number of studies that directly test this assumption is very low and empirical results are inconclusive.” Pg.56. I think the parens patriae principle should be expanded on and more research/funds should be applied on children exposed to PIPV. Although parents are able to care for their child and education, they may not be ethically doing so and directly shifting life domains. I think just like businesses have accountants look into their finances to make sure all money is accounted for, social workers or someone involved in family relations should be determining whether the parens patriae is needed before the system waits for a crime to occur before looking into it.
established in 1898, it was still in connection with the adult court. 1961, Rhode Island established the first family court in the United States which separated domestic issues from the regular court system (pg.7). Agnew’s theory of crime (pg.53) believes family to be the most influential life domain because it is where people develop their self which directs every other aspect of their life. With innovative ideas comes change and although Rhode Island being the first state to establish a family court, the Ocean Tides program showed that juveniles are not defined by one offense and that adjudicated boyd have the potential to succeed still in a society that downs on them.
Chapter 2 talks about the data that was collected for the Ocean Tides program.
Although many of the tables were interesting I felt the most compelled to the tables regarding child abuses, most recent charges and hobbies. Table A.6 shows the family structure of the Ocean Tide boys and I find it extremely interesting that 46% of the boys experienced emotional abuse from their biological fathers and 20% from their biological mothers. (p.29). Table A.6 shows that no boys lived in a single family home with just their biological father so one can infer from this that the emotional abuse is the most prominent in 2 parent households, probably under patriarchy. On pg. 144 Agnew talks about parenting practices and I think the author’s found such high emotional abuse rates among biological parents is because of poor parenting skills. Agnew (2005), pg. 146 infers that many parents possess traits like irritability and low self control and are more prone to engage in abusive parenting practices because their motivation and ability to engage in good parenting are reduced. Although I do not think violation of probation should be considered a charge, it is the most common violation alongside breaking and entering for the ocean tide boys according to Table A.10. The Ocean Tide boys committed 62.6% nonviolent crimes and 36.8% of violent crimes (p.30). My assumption is that the authors found these numbers because crime often has short term effects according to Agnew (pg. 94). Violation of probation is probably related to trying to see friends or drug activity and other nonviolent offenses like theft and burglary involve gaining money or valuable things. These are all short term and come with penalty which is why nonviolent crimes are double in percentage compared to violent
crimes.
Although technology is still a growing field, I expected videogames and computers to be one of the major hobbies rather than sports. I find it interesting because I feel like sports prevent conducive behavior. According to Agnew (p.50) delinquents desire lower goals because they reduce stake in conformity and may increase strain. I find participating in a sport has some type of gal so it’s contradictory to what Agnew says but when one dives further, the scenario seems comprehensible. For example if someone with a poor family life domain was trying to avoid that domain playing a sport would be logical because they would be further from home rather than playing a video game which can only virtually distract one’s attention for so long.
Chapter 3 of Turning the Tide illustrates figure 3.1 and states that everyone sits in some place along a continuum that stretches from non criminal to criminal. Agnew’s general theory of crime is useful in determining nonviolent and violent youthful experiences. Just like on the continuum a person’s location is shifting throughout time, Agnew on chapter 9 pg. 157 states that the life domains are also changing overtime and each one has a correlation on the other. The web of crime is important in comparing differences in violent and nonviolent youthful experiences. Chapter 4 of the Juvenile is focused on family as a life domain but more importantly poor parenting as a major source of strain. “It is generally accepted among researchers that children who are exposed to PIPV experiences emotional and behavioral problems that can reach into adulthood and that these experiences often lead to violent behaviors, but the number of studies that directly test this assumption is very low and empirical results are inconclusive.” Pg.56. I think the parens patriae principle should be expanded on and more research/funds should be applied on children exposed to PIPV. Although parents are able to care for their child and education, they may not be ethically doing so and directly shifting life domains. I think just like businesses have accountants look into their finances to make sure all money is accounted for, social workers or someone involved in family relations should be determining whether the parens patriae is needed before the system waits for a crime to occur before looking into it.