Essay - Are Boot Camps Effective Juvenile Justice Methods? One: What is...

Are Boot Camps Effective Juvenile Justice Methods?

*****: What is the problem the "boot camp" strategy for juvenile justice ***** attempting to address?

***** problem that needs to be addressed, and has been addressed - albeit without overwhelming success thus far - is ***** crime. And through various juvenile "justice" strategies, including ***** camps, another issue is how to best provide the punishment for, rehabilitation *****, and prevention of juvenile crime. According to ***** Executive Summary of the report, "Juvenile Crime, ***** Justice" (JCJJ, 2001), prepared by the Commission on Behavioral and Social Sciences ***** Educati*****, though ***** juvenile arrest rate for violent crimes - which had soared in the late 1980s and early 1990s - "began decreasing in 1994, by 1999, it was back to the rate of the late 1980s."

The encouraging part of ***** study ***** which was a cooper*****tive effort of the U.S. Department of Justice (Office of Juvenile ***** and Delinquency Prevention), ***** U.S. ***** of Education (Safe and Drug-Free Schools Program), The John D. ***** Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, and the Harry Frank Guggenheim Foundation - is the finding that "although a large proportion of adolescents" get arrested, only a "small ***** commits serious *****."

So, ***** initial problem is the fact ***** there ***** considerable juvenile crime in America. The second problem is that society ***** not h*****led punishment of / rehabilitation for and prevention of juvenile ***** very effectively; indeed, the JCJJ report states that "***** crime legislation and policy have become more punitive" and have caused the lines between juvenile and adult crime ***** be "blurred." This trend is continuing, JCJJ data indicates, ***** "research on recidivism and deterrence" s*****s clearly that it may be "more counterproductive to treat juveniles as adults." As to ***** questions: "At what stage in the juvenile ***** system does ***** offender go to [boot camp]"; and "Who sends the offender ***** the program," it should be noted that (according to the JCJJ report) "...the United States h***** at least 51 different juvenile justice systems... [and] t*****ere has never been a single dominant vision of how to deal with delinquent children in law or ***** practice." Moreover, "***** to date s*****s that juveniles placed in secure detention or incarceration" ***** including boot camps - "suffer a wide r*****nge of negative effects and those transferred to adult court may be more likely to re*****offend than those who remain under juvenile court jurisdiction."

Youths who are incarce*****d "***** higher rates of physical injury ***** mental health problems, and they have poorer education *****al outcomes."

TWO: Describe the program: What ***** juvenile justice-related "***** camps"—***** what are they designed ***** do? What ***** the goals of the *****?

***** growth of juvenile justice "boot *****" has ***** significant; between the time the ***** first boot camp - in Orleans Parish, Louisiana - was established in 1985, to *****day, in 2005, nearly every state in the U.S. has now implemented boot camps, though ***** style and focus ***** the *****