Youth Boot camps

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The aim of this proposal is to provide answer to the question whether or not youth booth camps are a good solution for violent youths who do have solid and adequate family support.
Introduction
Here we will focus on USA Boot camps because it is where this type of institutions were initiated. In the late eighties and early nineties juvenile crime was on the rise, therefore authorities believed that some solution had to be found, other than common detention institution. In the early 1990s governments of many countries, especially The USA started creating Boot camps as an alternative to other detention centres for juvenile offenders. These camps are meant for juvenile offenders or just youths, which manifest violent behaviour. They are intended to be primarily short-term, correctional, and military alike institutions. (National Institute of justice). Most of the experts advocate that placing young people with disciplinary issues within any traditional detention institution might result in even worse behavioural problems when they come out. (Muscar,2008). The purpose of these camps was to isolate youths with already undesirable, delinquent behaviour, from the surroundings of the common correctional institutions. Inevitably, there they would constantly surrounded by criminals, and would be deprived of any possible positive influence. (National Institute of justice). Boot camps were introduced for the first time in Louisiana in 1985. Their purpose was to serve as additional support to the correctional system in the United States. (National Institute of justice). Initially, these camps were run and controlled solely by the government. Today they can be either governmental or private. In either cases they are based upon the same model, ...

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Jaime E. Muscar.(2008). Advocating the End of Juvenile Boot Camps: Why the Military Model Does Not Belong in the Juvenile Justice System. Retrieved 09.04.2014. http://jjlp.law.ucdavis.edu/archives/vol-12-no-1/Muscar.pdf

Janofsky, Michael.( 2001).˝States pressed As 3 Boys Die At Boot Camps˝. New York Times. Retrieved 09.04.2014. http://www.nytimes.com/2001/07/15/us/states-pressed-as-3-boys-die-at-boot-camps.html
National Institute of justice, The Office of Justice Programs, CrimeSolutions.gov. Retrieved 09.04.2014. http://www.crimesolutions.gov/PracticeDetails.aspx?ID=6

Queensland Government. Retrieved 09.04.2014. http://www.justice.qld.gov.au/youth-justice/youth-boot-camps-general-information

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