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A 3 page paper which examines the positive effects of reform schools, boot camps and group therapy, and the ways in which they can help you become stable and more productive. Bibliography lists 4 sources.
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been forced to contend with disruptive youth behavior that is generated by a variety of factors that have changed little over the years, such as poverty, dysfunctional/abusive families, substance abuse,
and peer pressure. Once upon a time, the rationale was that these youthful offenders, dubbed juvenile delinquents, should be locked away from society in a manner reminiscent of incarcerating
adult criminals. Typically, the responsibilities of retraining youths to become positive and contributing members of society have fallen to reform schools (or reformatories), boot camps, and various methods of
group therapy. These programs have not remained static over the years, in fact, quite the opposite. They have evolved to better meet these youths individual needs. Reform schools
were one of the first types of youth retraining, beginning with the opening of the Lyman School in Massachusetts in 1846 (Krisberg, 1995). Youths were admitted to reform schools
for behaviors such as "criminal offenses, status offenses and dependency" (Krisberg, 1995, p. 122). In the beginning, their length of stay was determined by the administrators at each facility,
but many were eventually simply later shipped off to adult correctional facilities (Krisberg, 1995). But during the 1990s, acquiescing to charges of abuse, Massachusetts took the lead and integrated
its traditional reform schools with community services, and many other states quickly followed (Krisberg, 1995). In what is not more commonly referred to as training schools, a more "positive,
treatment-oriented approach" has been embraced (Mendel, 2004). Teachers and certified counselors now join correctional officers in overseeing retraining programs (Mendel, 2004). Today, reform schools have undergone a kind
of reformation in that they have vastly improved staff training, case management, family counseling and community services that accentuate the positive. These components work together to both monitor and
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