Briefly trace the history of juvenile corrections in the United States

What will be an ideal response?


The history of juvenile corrections has fairly closely tracked that of adult corrections and of criminal justice in general. In the 1950s, a great interest arose in community-based alternatives to large, state-run institutions for delinquents. Local institutions, residential youth centers, group homes, and specialized probation services began to develop. From the late 1960s to the 1970s, in a second phase of this development, diversion and deinstitutionalization programs were created and were claimed to be the answer to youth crime and delinquency. These community-based corrections rested on the conviction that state reformatories failed to prevent delinquency and, in fact, made it worse by stigmatizing youths exposed to it. Such youths became part of a "state youth subculture" heavily involved in patterns of both state dependence and criminality that were very difficult, if not impossible, to break.

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a. sociological b. biological c. physiological d. psychological

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What will be an ideal response?

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Indicate whether the statement is true or false

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