Do you feel that locking up a juvenile helps them or makes them worse later on when they get out?

Question

I'm doing this for a class project and i wanted some outside opinons and not just stuff from the web to write my paper on i wanna hear from real people with real stories and comments. So give what you got!!!!

Answer 1

It all depends.
What activities are happening in the lock-up?
Is schooling and councelling provided?
Are children of same ages housed together or are children of all ages housed together?
Do these children come from loving families and they have just made a mistake or two, or are these children that have been in the Child Services care for years and years?
Some can be helped.
Some, no such luck. In lock up, kids with no family ties and support, tend to find others like them, teach each other their "survival" tricks and continue with the only life they know, one of crime. These children then end up in the adult correctional system. Sadly, these are the children that need to be placed in stable loving homes as infants or young children but never get the families they need.

Answer 2

I worked in a treatment center for sex offenders aged 10-21. I saw both sides of the coin. The boys that came in that had terrible home lives often emerged as better people. There were some that I didn't know what the judge was thinking of when he placed him there. Some of those kids were so young and innocent and they were exposed to all kinds of things they never would have seen if there was another alternative for them. I guess it depends on the offense they committed, what their family is like, and what type of facility they get sent to. Also, the programs and staff make a huge difference.

Answer 3

It depends on the juvenile's time in confinement. Are they educated and rehabilitated, or simply punished?

If it's just a warehouse for bad kids, they get to learn "tricks of the trade" from each other -- society just sent them to Juvenile Delinquent University.

If the time is used constructively (you have a captive audience...do something intelligent with the time!), then a better result may emerge.

Note of course that some kids, like some adults, are incorrigible and unreachable. More effort should be made on the kids, though.

Answer 4

Yes, punishment is necessary for bad behavior, and must reflect the crime. Now today's prisons need work, but I always liked the chain gang working on the side of the road for 16 hours a day.

Answer 5

Helps them

Answer 6

It helps society because they are seperated from us but it does not help them because they do not learn to become better in society. Some may because of personal choice but juvi is meant to retain, it is not therapy.

Answer 7

You need to learn to pay for mistakes you make. It's that way in the real world.

Answer 8

I think it would help them because they see how scared and lonely they get with out having their parents around them.

Answer 9

It helps them as well as society as a whole.

Answer 10

They should be caned.