Explain the different types of residential programs
What will be an ideal response?
The answer should include the following points:
short-term confinements
- shelter care facilities—short-term care for status offenders and for dependent or neglected children
- length of stay in these nonsecure facilities with no locked doors varies from overnight to a few days
- residents permitted to enjoy home visits on weekends and field trips into the community during the week
long-term confinements
- boot camps—military-style facility used as an alternative to prison—emphasizing military discipline, physical training, and regimented activity for 30 to 120 days
- intent of these programs is to shock youthful offenders to prevent them from committing further crimes—most programs generally exclude sex offenders, armed robbers, and violent offenders
- key components to maximize their effectiveness: education and job training and placement, community service, substance abuse counseling and treatment, health and mental health care, individualized and continuous case management, and intensive aftercare services
- reception and diagnostic centers—both publicly and privately administered—determine which treatment plan suits and which training school is the best placement for each adjudicated juvenile
- roles of psychiatrist, clinical psychologist, social worker, academic staff, physical and dental examiner, and dormitory supervisor
- case conference—recommendations for best institutional placement—transfer
- ranches and wilderness camps—minimum-security institutional placements reserved for minor/first-time offenders
- residents typically do conservation work in a state park, cutting grass and weeds, cleaning up, and doing general maintenance
- treatment programs include individual contacts with social workers and the child care staff, group therapy, an occasional home visit, and attending community events
- residents more positive about a placement at a wilderness camp or ranch than about placement in a training school
- training schools—public and private—main forms of long-term juvenile correctional institutions
- basic organizational goals: obedience/conformity, reeducation/development, and treatment—philosophy of parens patriae
- physical design of medium- and maximum-security training schools—individual cells or small cottages
- services provided—education, entertainment, counseling, vocational training and job assistance, recreation, etc.
- prerelease activity-related programs—community reintegration—prerelease cottage privileges and cottage parents
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