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Treatment Abuse, Behavior Modification, Thought Reform => The Troubled Teen Industry => Topic started by: Anonymous on February 21, 2006, 01:59:00 AM

Title: WHAT DOESN'T WORK
Post by: Anonymous on February 21, 2006, 01:59:00 AM

http://www.ncjrs.org/pdffiles/171676.pdf (http://www.ncjrs.org/pdffiles/171676.pdf)
(forgive me if this has already been posted here, but I found it very interesting and wanted to share.) Look at page 7. Any surprise to anyone here?  ::bigmouth::

Title: WHAT DOESN'T WORK
Post by: Troll Control on February 21, 2006, 04:39:00 PM

From http://www.ncjrs.org/pdffiles/171676.pdf (http://www.ncjrs.org/pdffiles/171676.pdf)


? Gun ?buyback? programs.
? Community mobilization against crime in high-crime poverty
areas.
? Police counseling visits to homes of couples days after
domestic violence incidents.
? Counseling and peer counseling of students in schools.
? Drug Abuse Resistance Education (D.A.R.E.).
? Drug prevention classes focused on fear and other emotional
appeals, including self-esteem.
? School-based leisure-time enrichment programs.
? Summer jobs or subsidized work programs for at-risk youth.
? Short-term, nonresidential training programs for at-risk youth.
? Diversion from court to job training as a condition of case
dismissal.
? Neighborhood watch programs organized with police.
? Arrests of juveniles for minor offenses.
? Arrests of unemployed suspects for domestic assault.
? Increased arrests or raids on drug market locations.
? Storefront police offices.
? Police newsletters with local crime information.
? Correctional boot camps using traditional military basic training.
? ?Scared Straight? programs whereby minor juvenile offenders
visit adult prisons.
? Shock probation, shock parole, and split sentences adding jail
time to probation or parole.
? Home detention with electronic monitoring.
? Intensive supervision on parole or probation (ISP).
? Rehabilitation programs using vague, unstructured counseling.
? Residential programs for juvenile offenders using challenging
experiences in rural settings.

Title: WHAT DOESN'T WORK
Post by: odie on February 22, 2006, 09:54:00 PM

Its strange though that they say one of the things that does work is Thereputic Communities in prisons. Funny how someone found a way to make it work there but not on the outside.

War is God?s way of teaching Americans geography.

--Ambrose Bierce (died 1914)