Data Bases • Custom Term Papers • Free Term Papers • Free Research Papers • Free Essays • Free Book Reports • Plagiarism? Links • Top 100 Term Paper Sites • Top 25 Essay Sites • Top 50 Essay Sites • Search 97,000 Papers @ DirectEssays.com • Search 101,000 Papers @ ExampleEssays.com • Search 90,000 Papers @ MegaEssays.com Free Essays • Term Paper Sites • Chuck III's Free Essays • Free College Essays • TermPaperSites.com • My Term Papers • Get Free Essays • Essay World • Planet Papers	Search Lots of Essays Back to Subjects - Psychology Juvenile Deliquency Juvenile Deliquency Juveniles who are incarcerated due to lack of opportunities should be educated in prison. Many young people enter and leave prison with numerous problems on their backs. A large amount of these juveniles are either literate or numerate, which in most cases, stem from school exclusion, truancy and other forms of disrupted education. Thom Gehring a Criminal Justice major looks at a school in the state of Texas named Witham; a survey he conducted throughout the high school proved that the majority of these students enrolled in Witham had a history of academic failure. Also he observed that the majority of those students eventually dropped out of school, and most of them ended up in prison within three years. I believe if kids begin their lives with a positive view on education it will motivate them to accomplish more, but in this case the students expectations are negative so usually the results are similar. This is the case when dealing with most juveniles who are growing up in corrupt environments. Education as crime prevention has proved itself to be affective according to the 1993 report to congress, which proved that the more education a inmate received in prison the better the chances that prisoner had of not returning for a second sentence. A 1998 study by the Little Hoover commission proved that prison education program in Florida, Illinois, Alabama and New York decreased repeat offense rates and raised employment. I believe that prison education is important because the majority of these juveniles imprisoned never got the chance to experience a quality education in the first place. I also believe that without a quality education a juvenile is more likely going to make the wrong decisions in his/her life. Education as crime prevention is a basic concept, which argues that education is the key to controlling the prisons enormous population. State law requires that 60% of the inmates who are incarcerated with out high school diplomas must receive basic literacy programs, but the truth is only 30% of those have access to the programs. I was very shocked to find out that inmates are being systemically denied an opportunity for individual development. It seems obvious that these inmates are being educated in prison, but really, they aren’t. Prison education is important to me because most of my close friends and relatives were incarcerated at young ages. My uncle Malique is a prime example of a juvenile who took the wrong path in life. Malique was a juvenile who made some crucial mistakes while growing up, and is now paying for it serving time in prison. Malique grew up in North Philadelphia, a neighborhood in which there is nothing but trouble, a neighborhood in which the local schools are over populated and most students don’t receive the proper amount of education needed to succeed. My uncle and I grew up in the same neighborhood, the same household, the same negative influences surrounding us, but the only difference is that I went off to college and he quit school and began to run the streets of a corrupt neighborhood. He became a product of his environment; this is the case with millions of juveniles in prison. These kids never got a chance to do something productive with their lives. It doesn’t take long until bad influences of a violent neighborhood takes its’ toll on a juveniles young mind and changes them for the worst. Most neighborhoods in Philadelphia lack opportunities for the young kids who are growing up there. Most kids are easily influenced by the drugs and violence and usually begin to engage in the two. Most juveniles become addicted to the lifestyle of ignorance and unawareness and become prime candidates for imprisonment. I believe that positive environments and role models are significant factors when dealing with the out come of an individual, and most of these juveniles who are incarcerated in the Plainfield Juvenile Correctional Facility lack them both. Karla Haworth says, “ The boys spend their days locked behind razor wire, doing time for crimes that some people say might have been prevented by better opportunities.” The environment in which one lives in is very important, sometimes in violent neighborhoods it seems as if trouble comes looking for you, where as though in peaceful, non-violent neighborhoods it’s hard to find trouble and violence is not likely to accure. Bibliography: Word Count: 729
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