Corrections and Treatment Felicia Spafford CJS/240 November 24‚ 2013 Jeffery Beasley In this paper I will be covering over the following: juvenile corrections and community-based treatment programs‚ including covering over community-based treatment‚ institutionalization‚ and aftercare programs. Corrections and Treatment Juveniles needs to learn from their crimes‚ so that is where the consequences comes into play for the juvenile’s criminal behavior
Premium Crime Criminal justice Criminology
Change Within The Juvenile Justice System: The History & Review of the Juvenile Justice System Jerod H. Richardson Survey of Law and Criminal Procedure CJ 2241 Professor David Horiuchi 11/20/2014 Change Within America ’s Juvenile Justice System One of the hardest decisions that judges have to make is sentencing a juvenile to be tried as an adult. With the increase in violent crimes in America today‚ juveniles are often found in the front line of media for violent crimes.
Premium Crime Criminology Criminal justice
On January 13‚ 1999‚ tragedy struck when Hae Min Lee went missing after what seemed to be a normal day at Woodlawn High School in Baltimore‚ Maryland. Then on February 9‚ 1999‚ Lee’s body was found buried in Leakin Park‚ just a seven minute drive from the high school. Lee’s former boyfriend‚ Adnan Syed‚ was seventeen at the time of the murder and attended the same school as Lee. They had an on-and-off relationship that officially ended in December of their senior year‚ just one month before her disappearance
Premium
change within time creating too many rights for the criminal and giving light punishment. Punishment and the correction system make drastic changes every century‚ and the understandings of both are complicated do to their changes. A part of society wants harsh punishment to comeback and the other big part are not agreeing with incarceration it all. Imprisonment later changes into corrections in the mid-1950s because punishing and treating criminals became an industry. Before the 1950s there was
Premium Criminal justice Crime Prison
Juvenile Justice Reform Act Effects on Society vs. the Juveniles Themselves Juvenile Delinquency Abstract Juvenile justice is the area of criminal law that applies to those individuals that aren’t of age to be held responsible for criminal acts. The age‚ in most states‚ for a juvenile criminal‚ is set at 18 years. While being mainly governed by state law‚ juvenile law usually enacts a juvenile code. Although the main goal of the juvenile justice system
Premium Crime Juvenile delinquency
CORRECTIONS AND TREATMENT There is a wide choice of correctional treatments available for juveniles‚ which can be subdivided into two major categories‚ which are community treatment and institutional treatment. Community treatment refers to efforts to provide care‚ protection‚ and treatment for juveniles in need. Institutional treatment facilities are correctional centers operated by federal‚ state‚ and county governments. These facilities restrict the movement of residents through staff monitoring
Free Crime Criminal justice
CORRECTIONAL FACILITIES Name: Institution: Correctional Facilities Introduction The correctional system is an overall term referring to an array of directives directly administered or executed by jurisdictional justice organizations that entail the management‚ castigation‚ rehabilitation and supervision of sentenced criminals. These mandates are frequently done through incarceration‚ probation and parole‚ whereas prison offers the most widespread correctional agency worldwide (Clear & Cole‚ 2013)
Premium Prison Penology Corrections
whilst providing justice and deterring crime. Within the criminal justice system‚ there are practices in use to identify how an offender is classed and treated an example of these are instrumental factors and non-instrumental factors. Instrumental functions are purposes of control and prevention‚ deterrence‚ rehabilitation and incapacitation. It aims to deter offenders and stop them from re-committing any crime‚ practices in place to deter criminals are jail‚ juvenile detention‚ corrections facilities
Premium Law Criminal law Crime
youth is neglected. If youth with disabilities were help more‚ than this particular group would not have a huge increase in correction facilities. In Kvarfordt‚ Purcell‚ and Shannon’s article of "Youth with Learning Disabilities in the Juvenile Justice System: A Training Needs Assessment of Detention and Court Services Personnel" (2005)‚ talks about the roles of corrections personnel in their pursuit to helping youth with learning disabilities in youth detention. There was a point made where youth
Premium Educational psychology Learning disability Special education
Week 6 Assignment: Corrections and Treatment John Cho University of Phoenix Corrections and treatment within the Juvenile Justice System have a variety of helpful rehabilitative and crime deterrent programs. These programs can help young juvenile offenders correct behavioral patterns‚ therapeutically rehabilitate their mental state‚ and prevent long term criminal activity. The treatment options are separated into two smaller categories: community-based treatment and institutionalization. The
Premium Crime Criminology