University of Houston Downtown Criminal Justice Essay

Assignment # 5-2 Essay “Juvenile Detention”

Attached Files:

• Unit 5 Houston Chronicle Article.pdf Unit 5 Houston Chronicle Article.pdf – Alternative Formats (596.284 KB)

Read the articles at the following links:

https://www.nj.com/opinion/2020/01/i-was-in-juvenile-detention-so-i-know-that-locking-up-kids-doesnt-work-opinion.html

https://www.houstonchronicle.com/news/houston-texas/houston/article/The-place-is-a-jungle-Texas-youth-prisons-14938409.php# (a pdf of this article also attached)

https://coloradosun.com/2020/01/31/lookout-mountain-youth-services-reforms/

Assignment:

Think about the readings from the textbook and articles for this unit, and then reflect on the articles for this assignment.

• What are your observations about managing the incarceration of juveniles and intervention in, or curbing, violent behavior?
• What do you think about the current state of juvenile corrections?
• What is, or should be, the future of juvenile incarceration?

Feel free to use other sources or information as you provide your analysis and observations; when using sources make sure to properly cite per APA.

It should be 2-3 pages in length. Submit in a Word document

• In the textbook read: Chapter 2 “Armed Students“; Chapter 3 “Life Course Criminology and the Criminal Behavior of Young People” (pp. 78 & 79) and “Labeling Theory” (pp. 85-86); and Chapter 14 (full chapter)
• Explore this data: National Center for Education Statistics “Violent Deaths at School and Away from School and School Shootings” https://nces.ed.gov/programs/coe/indicator/a01 (a pdf of this article is also attached)
• Read the article “What’s Justice for Kids Who Kill?” https://www.themarshallproject.org/2015/06/18/what-s-justice-for-kids-who-kill
• NCES School Shootings Data.pdf