The Dangers Of Juvenile Detention Centers

Thousands of juveniles, which are people under 18, are locked away in detention centers each year due to crime. The juvenile justice system is more focused on the child than the actual crime he or she commits. Young people are not fully developed when it comes to their mental, emotional, and the physical state. Juveniles are sent to detention facilities due to the justice system wanting them to be separated from adults.The detention centers are to rehabilitate young people or restore them with normality. Throughout my paper I will be speaking on the dangers of the detention center, the education in the detention centers, and also the differences based on gender and how juveniles respond to rehabilitation.
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Many of the teenagers that enter the juvenile justice centers do so due to issues in the home such as abuse and neglect, the factors named have a domino effect on the juvenile. An example would be : A teenager does not get the proper nutrition due to lack money, the lack of nutrition from food then stunts physical and most importantly mental health/ growth; Mental illness causes major issues in learning and education and the youth who enter juvenile-justice systems with anger problems, learning disabilities, and academic challenges receive little or no special help for those issues, and consequently fall further behind in school. The authorities simply do not take the time to find out what each individual need in the areas of learning that they are not strong in. The teaching process in detention centers are much more elementary than they should be due to the appointed instructors laziness, often time the residents of the centers are underhandedly told that if they “behave” they will not have to do work. Does it make sense to present learning as a sort of punishment? The testing results of many juvenile delinquents beg to differ; there is a direct correlation between solid and steady curriculum and high test scores in schools across the nation. The facts presented prove that more effort, money and time spent on learning in the juvenile justice systems will provide a better foundation for
The subsequent trauma experienced by girls who have been abused has far–reaching implications for juvenile justice providers, but the system has not adequately attempted to understand, address, or provide meaningful programming and support services for girls’ abuse issues, particularly sexual abuse. Abuse trauma can affect every aspect of girls’ lives. Most of the negative and/or unsafe behavior we see from girls in facilities is trauma related and comes from a culture of survival. ” according to Paula Schaefer from www.AmericanBar.org. The treatment between females and males in the juvenile justice system is completely different. In my opinion, females that have been hurt and traumatized tend to turn to anger as their way of escaping reality. Females that have been mentally, emotionally, or even physically abused are not comfortable with people getting close to him and fear trusting or even fearing authority. The authority in detention centers treat their residents according to the crime they commit. Rough treatment involving physical or any kind of discipline is usually conducted no matter which gender a young person is. Young men are not as vulnerable and relational as young ladies. Males can bare harsher treatment under the circumstances of stress. In my opinion, detention centers are about rehabilitation and behavior correction, with that being said the