TREATMENT FOSTER CARE

Running Head : TREATMENT FOSTER CARE

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Introduction

As the level of juvenile delinquency rises , most communities have become more concerned with the development of effective strategies that can deal with the problem . The community is always on the receiving end from such activities . At the same time , the whole society is concerned with the future development path of youths since locking them up in jails means that they will be disrupted from continuing with their studies making their future bleak and prone to crime . Therefore

most communities have resulted to positivism approach in which different rehabilitative measures are taken in to reduced the level of crime and at the same time reduce the vulnerability to crime . The key issue in juvenile delinquency is to protect the community from the acts of crime perpetrated by youths and at the same time offer rehabilitative services that changes the youths . Research has clearly documented that incarceration of juvenile offenders is just an option but it does not offer a complete reprieve to juvenile crime . However , incarceration is disruptive to the whole community and costly for the government . It may have a negative long term effect on the youth and in most cases , it leads to increased incarceration in their adulthood

It has therefore become important to find alternatives to incarceration The alternative to incarceration has been administrative rehabilitative care to the youths . The most practical been placing youths in group care settings where they interact with...