Young Offenders
Discussion and Analysis
Background information
This study attempts to display young people within the system and their families. Within the system, many young people are becoming more visible, which is affecting families allowing these underlying issues to grow further to access from services. The data acquired was collected by questionnaires, this was quantitative. The findings of my investigation are structured within my themes of my research questions. Within my findings I have grouped these questions together to come to a conclusion. Please refer to Appendix 1.
Are young people aware of the consequences due to criminal offences?
Theme one: Support
The main theme I have discovered for these questions is Support. The focus for these …show more content…
Question one read, “What do you think is the best solution for helping a young offender?”. In relation to my results (Refer to appendix 3), 15 people out of 25 suggest that counselling is the best form of help and a solution for a young offender, whereas only 7 agree that therapy is the best form of help. In line with parliament.uk (2014), “All young offender institutions and prisons are required to have procedures in place to identify, manage and support …show more content…
The prison population has an imbalance of young people within the system that have lived in the most socially deprived areas (Houchin, P., 2005) The link between social class and poverty is very strong, this is forged through events or experiences that lead two pathways of opportunity and motivation. These are based of structural factors such as family parenting, organisation or supervision (Fergusson et al, 2004) Who is responsible for youth offenders today? My results conclude that over half suggested parents are to blame leaving society as another fault. Criminologists have yet to prove that blame for the delinquencies of 10-17 year olds rests on the parents (The Guardian, Downes, 2015) Already there is a unheralded era
Background information
This study attempts to display young people within the system and their families. Within the system, many young people are becoming more visible, which is affecting families allowing these underlying issues to grow further to access from services. The data acquired was collected by questionnaires, this was quantitative. The findings of my investigation are structured within my themes of my research questions. Within my findings I have grouped these questions together to come to a conclusion. Please refer to Appendix 1.
Are young people aware of the consequences due to criminal offences?
Theme one: Support
The main theme I have discovered for these questions is Support. The focus for these …show more content…
Question one read, “What do you think is the best solution for helping a young offender?”. In relation to my results (Refer to appendix 3), 15 people out of 25 suggest that counselling is the best form of help and a solution for a young offender, whereas only 7 agree that therapy is the best form of help. In line with parliament.uk (2014), “All young offender institutions and prisons are required to have procedures in place to identify, manage and support …show more content…
The prison population has an imbalance of young people within the system that have lived in the most socially deprived areas (Houchin, P., 2005) The link between social class and poverty is very strong, this is forged through events or experiences that lead two pathways of opportunity and motivation. These are based of structural factors such as family parenting, organisation or supervision (Fergusson et al, 2004) Who is responsible for youth offenders today? My results conclude that over half suggested parents are to blame leaving society as another fault. Criminologists have yet to prove that blame for the delinquencies of 10-17 year olds rests on the parents (The Guardian, Downes, 2015) Already there is a unheralded era