From Juvenile Offender Institutions to Residential Treatment Centers: Evidence of the Shifting Paradigm to Improved Youth and Community Outcomes
| Autor: | Craig Boitel, Christopher A. Mallett |
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| Rok vydání: | 2015 |
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medicine.medical_specialty
Health (social science) Adolescent Sociology and Political Science Social Psychology Punishment Substance-Related Disorders media_common.quotation_subject Special education medicine Humans Juvenile Justice (ethics) Psychiatry Residential Treatment 0505 law media_common Recidivism Learning Disabilities Mental Disorders 05 social sciences Institutionalization General Medicine Criminals medicine.disease Mental health Substance abuse Prisons Juvenile Delinquency 050501 criminology Psychology |
| Zdroj: | Journal of Evidence-Informed Social Work. 13:155-164 |
| ISSN: | 2376-1415 2376-1407 |
| DOI: | 10.1080/23761407.2015.1013367 |
| Popis: | Hundreds of thousands of youth are held every year in U.S. juvenile justice detention centers and incarceration facilities. Increasingly it is known that these facility placements are at best ineffective and at worst lead to additional youth recidivism outcomes. What is most concerning, though, is that a majority of these incarcerated youth have one or more mental health/substance abuse disorders, special education disabilities, or maltreatment victimization histories-comorbid situations that negatively impact their involvement with the juvenile courts. In this article the authors summarize the epidemiology of these youth problems within the juvenile justice system. The authors then compare the outcome evidence for the youth placed in juvenile justice facilities with those placed in residential treatment centers, finding significant advantages to addressing the problems through rehabilitative efforts. Recognizing that there are a small number of serious youthful offenders who will need placement, their analysis finds that the juvenile courts must continue (or in many instances begin) reshaping their detention and incarceration facilities reliance on punishment toward a rehabilitative residential model. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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