SOC 3710 Lecture Notes - Lecture 19: Youth Detention Center, Community Areas In Chicago, Nimby
10 Oct 2018
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Cost of custody: average cost of custody per year, per youth: 80,000, community residential programs are the least expensive option (,00-12,00/year, high security facilities cost the most (up to 126,000/year, community options, probation is the least expensive (/year) 80% of arrested youth are on probation: very few are actually in custody, message is that it costs far more to incarcerate a youth especially if in high security. Ycja tells us, we can see how important it becomes of sentencing: all parts of sentencing have a period of supervision. Youth custody issues: changing use of custody, on a typical day, more than half of youth in custody are on remand. Two kids dating each other not allowed to communicate with each other. A policy was put into place where boys and girls aren"t allowed to mix. I wouldn"t say it"s a punishment model, it"s not restorative, i think it"s rehabilitative.
