CRIM 3657 Chapter 10: Ch 10 What to do about youth crime chapter recap
11 May 2017
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Incarcaration is so popular due to medias role in influencing moral [anics aaround the problem of youth crime. Indiivduals who believe that youth today lack discipline and respect for authority often find boot camps attractive: according to doob, boot camps serve different, contradictory purposes. : they wear down young offenders and attempt to build them back up. Advocates believe that realistically depicted adult prison will deter adolescents from further involvement in crime: despite early evidence of scared straights failure, finceanur reported that participants in the experimental programs were more likely to be arrested. Such a framework focuses on individual behaviour, determining guilt and then delivign appropriate punishmen thtrough an adversial process: a damaging effect of the retributive paradigm is the tendency for non-punitive. Alternative sanctions" to appear weak and less aqeuate than incarceration, thereby obscuring inespesive, less-intrusive responses to youth crime.
