Beyond Scared Straight: A Fixed Mindset In a 2008 Sally Forth comic strip, Sally attempted to offer her daughter some encouragement before taking her final exams. She declared, “You’re going to ace your finals, sweetie.” Sally expanded on this explaining, “And you know how I know? Because you’re the smartest, most gifted, brilliant kid there is!” Her daughter responded with, “You’d say the same thing if I were a full-blown idiot, wouldn’t you?” Sally replied with, “I guess you’ll never know” (Marciuliano & Keefe, 2008). Although this situation was used for the purpose of entertainment, did Sally tell her daughter the right thing? The purpose of this story was to illustrate the importance of how people view themselves and their abilities. …show more content…
A juvenile is a person under the age of 18. If he or she commits an offense that is considered a crime in the law of a state, including theft, assault, drug abuse, disorderly conduct, and curfew violations, that person is labeled as a juvenile delinquent. Similarly, if a juvenile commits an offense that is considered a crime in the juvenile code, including running away from home, truancy from school, and disobeying the lawful orders of parents or legal guardians, that person is also labeled as a juvenile …show more content…
The program garnered success by reporting that out of the total 8,000 juvenile delinquents that were exposed to the program, an overwhelming 80% of them remained law-abiding citizens (Shapiro, 1978). The program was even revisited 20 years later in a television special which followed up 17 of the juvenile delinquents that went through the original program. The special concluded that only one of the juvenile delinquents became a career criminal (Muhammed, 1999). Following the success of the Scared Straight program, similar programs were replicated in more than 30 jurisdictions throughout the United States in addition to several foreign countries, including Australia’s Day in Prison Program (O’Malley et al., 1993) , Norway’s Ullersmo Project (Lloyd, 1995), and Germany’s Neo-Nazi Prevention Program (Hall, 1999). Along with their claimed success, these programs gained popularity since they are inexpensive (some programs estimated a cost less than 1 U.S Dollar per participant) and they also provide prisoners with an opportunity to make positive contributions to society (Finckenauer,
“Always remember that you are absolutely unique. Just like everyone else.” This mantra from Margaret Mead is a somewhat humorous yet slightly satirical spin on how people tend to think of themselves as one-of-a-kind, irreplaceable human specimens. However, one English teacher from Wellesley High School takes this critique one step further with his polemic presentation at the school commencement. David McCullough, a Massachusetts English teacher, gave a seemingly somber sendoff to his graduates in 2012, with a speech that contained some unapologetically harsh sentiments. However, by looking past the outwardly dismal surface of the speech, the students can infer a more optimistic message. By incorporating devices of asyndeton, paradox, antimetabole, and anadiplosis, McCullough conveys to each student that even though none of them is unique, their commonality is not a fault they all have merit and should strive to view the world through a more selfless lens.
In the murder mystery “Scared to Death”, there are several suspects to who had scared Marcus Farley to his death. The suspects to the mystery are Claire, the faithful housekeeper; Tom Paisley, the Scottish medium; Sasha, Marcus’s Australian model wife; and Rachel, who is the younger sister to Jane Farley and had been in London for 27 years. Jane was Marcus’s daughter, who committed suicide and is claimed to have been a ghost. Marcus Farley read a threatening letter that was stabbed into the door with a knife, which caused him to have a heart attack and die. He could not find his nitroglycerin pills in the medicine drawer. Claire had the motive, opportunity, and the means to kill Marcus Farley.
Family, education and a person’s opportunities are significant elements that collectively define an individual, as demonstrated by both Wes Moore’s. Depending on the opportunities offered to you and whether you decide to take advantage of them through hard work and persistence will result in your success or failure in the end. Wes Moore explains “The chilling truth is that his story could have been mine. The tragedy is that my story could have been his” goes to show that certain factors affect how you will be as an adult regardless of similar or differentiating backgrounds. (Moore xi).
There are many different types of programs that are created to prevent kids from a life of juvenile delinquency. Although in 1979 the scared straight programs started to rise when Arnold Shapiro’s’ documentary aired on television. They continue to rise today, because of the television series that is aired on A&E and is called “Beyond Scared Straight”. Both are inmates trying to scare kids into changing their lifestyles so they do not end up in jail. This is the state's goal in prevention; in doing so, they usually organize visits to adult facilities for youth delinquents or youth who are bad and have the chance of falling into the delinquent lifestyle.
Many are expected to aspire to being a professional football or basketball player, not to being a senator or a college professor. Their sense of self is molded by the social expectations
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According to criminal.findlaw.com the definition of the juvenile justice system is the area of criminal law applicable to people not old enough to be held responsible for criminal acts. Juveniles are people 17 and under. Juveniles should be convicted as adults for violent crimes like assault or murder etcetera because if they can commit an adult crime they should get an adult punishment. Also if juveniles don’t get punished for their crimes then they’ll keep doing it because they got off unpunished the first time.
The recent media obsession with the scared straight program, juvenile boot camps and other scare tactics has lead to the question as to whether they actually are beneficial or not in treating adolescent criminal recidivism. On television programs like Maury (Pauvich) the answer to treating the troubled young girls who are brought to the show is boot camp. Those in charge take these girls to prisons, dangerous streets at night and often morgues to make a visual argument as to where they will end up as a result of the path they've taken. They also go through a rigorous run with drill sergeants to break down their egos. Of course it only last one day as opposed to any length of time a judge would sentence, but they get a small taste of it. Without surprise, at the end of every program of this nature, all the girls are rehabilitated and promise to go back to school, quit drugs, stealing, prostituting, and stop the abusive behavior.
Juvenile justice is the decision whether or not to charge a juvenile as an adult. When a Juvenile is charged as an adult, they are sentenced to long prison terms and sometimes life. In 2012 two groups of judges came together, one group believes that Juveniles should be allowed to be sentenced to life in prison and the other group believes that Juveniles should not be allowed to be sentenced to life in prison. I agree with the group of judges that believe that juveniles should not be sentenced to life in prison.
The second message conveyed by Horatio Alger is that we all have a shot reaching our true potential. To be fair, neither Alger nor the myth he underwrote suggests that we start out equal. Nor d...
Status offenses are the illegal acts committed by juveniles that normally would not be considered a criminal act if done by an adult. A juvenile is defined as a person who is less than the age of 18 years old. There are typically five types of status offenses, which include truancy (skipping school), incorrigibility (beyond the control of parents), running away, use or possession of tobacco (or cigarettes), curfew violations, and underage alcohol consumption or possession (Champion, 2013).
Delinquency refers to the aspect of failing to abide by the law. Juvenile Delinquency is the aspect of people who are under age breaking the law and thus the need to take a legal action against them. The essay looks into delinquency theories that explain what leads to under age people breaking the law. Secondly, juvenile behavior in regards to the theory is explained as well as the possible strategies put in place to prevent and intervene before juvenile delinquency occurs (National Institute for Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention (U.S., 1985).
As stated by Bartol and Bartol “Juvenile delinquency is an imprecise, nebulous, social, clinical, and legal label for a wide variety of law- and norm-violating behavior” (2011, Pg 139). The juvenile delinquency term has come to imply disgrace in today's correctional institution. Our government is up hold to procedures and expected to come with a solution to solving the delinquent problem. An underage offender can be labeled a delinquent for breaking any number of laws, ranging from robbery to running away from home, and especially being involved in school violence. The following situations faced by correction officials when dealing with juvenile delinquents will be examined. Three main areas (child development, punishments, and deterrence tactics) will be briefly analyzed to give adequate explanation of the issue.
...nk of as accomplishments that shaped who we are. Measuring ourselves against our personal achievents and the adversity we face is one of the many ways that we can examine our lives and potential. Adversity plays such a big role in our lives that it's almost invisible. We don't realize that practically everyday we face it and set it up to determine who we are going to be. Sometimes people are given a really crappy deck of cards and don’t know how to handle them. When were in a difficult situation, or faced with adversity we have two choices. Battle through it and become an even greater individual because of it or succumb to the situation and give up. It it all depends on how much determination a person has to fight through the adversity and in turn, become a better person.
These acts consist of anything the juveniles can think of. The definition of delinquency and status offense is needed in order to understand why the types of crimes juveniles commit. “Failure to obey parents, not going to school, or running away from home” is defined as status offense (Cam, 2014). “Everything related to illegal acts, both status offense and criminal, that is done by a minor” is defined as delinquent behavior (Cam, 2014). These minors carrying out these actions are called juvenile delinquents. These delinquents are managed by being put in two different groups. These two groups are major crimes and non-major crimes. Since, major crimes will be the preliminary topic in this paper, a definition is given that is defined by the FBI. “Murder, aggravated assault, rape, robbery, burglary, motor vehicle theft, larceny theft, and arson are categorized as serious crimes” (Cam,