Juvenile Justice Chapter 11

1. Juvenile Justice Chapter 11 Response of Corrections

2. Corrections for Juveniles • Goal of corrections is to successfully return youth to their family, school and community • Graduated Sanctions: premise is a based on deterrence. • Whether the consequences of committing a crime is greater than the benefits. • If person believes that benefits are greater, then a crime will be committed

3. Promising Sanctioning Programs in a Graduated System • JJ System must include programs that are less restrictive than confinement, but more intense than probation. • Continuum of care for juveniles must include a wide range of sanctions designed to increase offender accountability

4. Promising Sanctioning Programs in a Graduated System • Four Types of interventions • Immediate Sanctions • Intermediate Sanctions • Secure Confinement • After-care/re-entry • Immediate Sanctions • Diversion mechanism to hold youth accountable • Includes Community based supervision • Substance abuse treatment, anger management, mental health counseling, tutoring, mentoring, parenting programs

5. Promising Sanctioning Programs in a Graduated System • Intermediate Sanctions hold youth accountable to their actions through more restrictive and intensive interventions short of secure care, including: • Probation (Most Common form) • Intensive supervision • Electronic monitoring • House arrest • Boot camps • Alternative schools

6. Probation • Probation • John Augustus is the father of probation • Goals are to: • Protect Public • Hold Juveniles accountable • Improve delinquent behavior • Rehabilitation • Probation Officer has two key functions: • Personally supervising and counseling youths • Serving as a link to community services

7. Community Based Corrections Programs • Philosophy is treatment and rehabilitation • Foster homes • Group homes • Youth Service Bureaus • Halfway houses • Community Service • Nonresidential Day Treatment Alternatives

8. Non-secure Residential Programs • Group Homes • Professional corrections staff that provides: • Counseling • Education • Job Training • Family Style Living • Holds 12-15 youths • Structured environment • Youth attend schools • Used extensively in all states

9. Non-secure Residential Programs • Foster Homes: • Family like setting • Used for children who have been neglected • Social Service and court referrals • Substance abuse treatment • Structure environment • On-site school • Skills training • Group counseling

10. Secure Programs • Training Schools • Vary in size • Some resemble adult prisons • Structured environment • School • Job training • Pro-social skill training • Substance abuse

11. Secure Programs • Boot Camps • Stresses military style discipline • Physical fitness • Vocational training • Drug treatment • Designed for non-violent first time offenders

12. Parole • Planned, supervised early release from institutionalization that is authorized by correctional facility • Provides individual with freedom with monitoring by Aftercare or Parole officer • Objective is to involve family, school and community in rehabilitate and transition youth into community

13. Youth Programs • Types of Programs for Youth • Anger management or Prevention • Substance Abuse treatment or Prevention • Wilderness Program • Group Home • Day Treatment • Alternative School • After School • Psychiatric Program Promising Sanctioning Programs in a Graduated System