The juvenile justice system & Crime
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The juvenile justice system was designed to be different from the adult system in a number of ways, offering rehabilitation more than punishment and taking both a protective and a custodial role over its charges. As juvenile crime has increased in incidence and severity, the public has become less patient and has demanded punishment over rehabilitation, seeing this as a way to protect itself against the depredations of young offenders. Community based corrections programs are seen as a viable alternative to "detention centers" in the eyes of the justice system and other professionals who work with young offenders, but the creation of such programs must also protect the public from juvenile crime and will certainly come under increased criticism for any failure to do so. This continuing contradiction in the mission of the juvenile justice system, extended now to the community programs which are seen as an important component of the juvenile justice system of the future, needs to be resolved so the public feels safe and supports the programs. One form of program that has been instituted goes under different names but can be categorized generally as an intensive supervision program, or ISP. The system that prevailed from the turn of the century was changed after the Supreme Court found flaws in the system, and changes were made in the early 1960s at both the state and federal levels with a substantial revision of juvenile codes to add many of the procedural safeguards call
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Intensive Supervision Unit (ISU). The primary comparison group consisted of a sample of felony offenders sentenced to DYS during the same period as the ISU cases and who met the same initial-screening eligibility criteria. A second comparison group was used to provide an additional perspective, and this group consisted of a 20 percent sample of felony offenders who were placed on traditional Court probation supervision during the same period. Results showed that intensive supervision is an effective alternative to incarceration, though the results did not show that it was a solution to the underlying problem of juvenile crime. Also noted was the fact that ISP was difficult to achieve in a cost-effective way without large-scale diversion (Wiebush 68-86).
Barton and Butts also consider the value of intensive supervision programs for juvenile delinquents by examining offenders at the Wayne County Juvenile Court in Detroit, Michigan, which recently developed and evaluated three in-home, intensive supervision programs as alternatives to commitment for adjudicated delinquents. More than 500 young offenders were randomly assigned either to intensive supervision or to a control group committed to the state for placement. Implement
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Approximate Word count = 2098
Approximate Pages = 8 (250 words per page)
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