Home detention as an effective method for juvenile rehabilitation

Increasing the use of home detention offers advantages in addition to reducing pressure on the prisons , including : positive support for re-integration and rehabilitation of offenders , enabling employment accommodation , and family relationships to be maintained low rates of re-conviction and re-imprisonment that are only one-quarter to one-third of the rates for offenders who were sentenced to up to 12 months in prison high compliance rates . The annual rate of recall by the Parole Board has been steady at 1 to 1 .5 percent since 2003 (the rate covers both front-end and pre-parole home

detention and lower costs than prison . The annual cost of a person on home detention is 21 ,640 compared to 59 ,170 for a minimum-security prisoner (OMJ , 2007 ,

. 7-3 In secure detentions , young offenders could hardly receive moral support from friends and families . More likely they will have stress-related illnesses , emotional and psychiatric problems that could lead to suicide , and perhaps endangered of being physically assaulted by other inmates

Furthermore , spending time in secure detentions could only reinforced the idea that the offender is no longer part of the society feeling left alone or rejected . There are many negative effects secure detention could give to young offenders . By placing the young offender with other criminals , he will likely to pick up some bad behaviors or believe in some misguided principles , which he will carry throughout adulthood . He will learn to become a criminal rather than being reformed . Studies have shown that confinement is not only more likely to reinforce delinquent behavior in those already at-risk , but also has them picking up more delinquent skills than if they are treated individually (Tyler Ziedenberg Lotke , 2006 ,

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The use of home detention also reduces the prison population specifically the ones that are overcrowded . Over the past decades the...