The total effects of boot camps that house juveniles: A systematic review of the evidence

Meade, Benjamin; Steiner, Benjamin

doi:10.1016/j.jcrimjus.2010.06.007

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“…Martin was a 14-year-old boy who was suffocated when boot camp staff used ammonia capsules, while punching him, because he would not continue to run due to exhaustion (Roberts, 2008). Still, as of 2009, 11 states continue to operate juvenile boot camps, while numerous privately run juvenile boot camps exist and states may contract with them (Meade & Steiner, 2010).…”

Section: Youth Boot Campsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Community-Based Recovery and Youth Justice

Sellers

2014

Criminal Justice and Behavior

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Four well-known delinquency intervention and prevention programs remain both publicly and politically popular regardless of a large body of evidence-based research revealing their ineffectiveness in promoting a lasting desistance from youth violence and crime. Scared straight programs, Drug Abuse Resistance Education (D.A.R.E.), youth boot camps, and secure large-scale, custodial juvenile correctional facilities overemphasize offender "risk management and maintenance" as opposed to individual, group-based, and/or collective well-being. This article will identify the values that these current and dominant community-centered youth justice initiatives reflect, and it will explain how these values further (or forestall) offender desistance. Viable, evidence-based alternatives consistent with the value orientation of therapeutic and restorative programming will also be evaluated. The article concludes by examining the efficacy of this alternative normative agenda to foster successful desistance from juvenile delinquency and crime.

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Section: Youth Boot Campsmentioning

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Community-Based Recovery and Youth Justice

Sellers

2014

Criminal Justice and Behavior

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“…162 The consensus of the extensive US literature on boot camps is that they are not effective in deterring crime or reoffending or in in promoting rehabilitation. 163 …”

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Making the Fun Stop: Youth Justice Reform in Queensland

Hutchinson

2014

Deakin Law Review

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In 2013 the newly elected conservative Liberal National Party government instigated amendments to the Youth Justice Act 1992 (Qld). Boot camps replaced court ordered youth justice conferencing. In 2014 there were more drastic changes, including opening the Children’s Court proceedings to the public, permitting publication of identifying information of repeat offenders, removing the principle of ‘detention as a last resort’, facilitating prompt transferral of 17 year olds to adult prisons and instigating new bail offences and mandatory boot camp orders for recidivist motor vehicle offenders in Townsville. This article compares these amendments to the legislative frameworks in other jurisdictions and current social research. It argues that these amendments are out of step with national and international best practice benchmarks for youth justice. Early indications are that Indigenous children are now experiencing increased rates of unsentenced remand. The article argues that the government’s policy initiatives are resulting in negative outcomes and that early and extensive evaluations of these changes are essential.

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“…And selfcontrol could be importantly related to the thinking patterns and lifestyles that are needed to desist from crime (cf. Baglivio, 2009;Meade & Steiner, 2010;Rebellon, Piquero, Piquero, & Tibbetts, 2010).…”

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Self-control theory: The Tyrannosaurus rex of criminology is poised to devour criminal justice

DeLisi

2011

Journal of Criminal Justice

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The total effects of boot camps that house juveniles: A systematic review of the evidence

Cited by 37 publications

References 46 publications

Community-Based Recovery and Youth Justice

Community-Based Recovery and Youth Justice

Making the Fun Stop: Youth Justice Reform in Queensland

Self-control theory: The Tyrannosaurus rex of criminology is poised to devour criminal justice

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