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Juvenile Offenders and Possibility of Mentorship Program
Juvenile Offenders, an Intervention Analysis
The challenge of juvenile offenders, what prompts them into crime and what factors contribute to the repeat of same misdemeanors that led them to the juvenile prison are issues that have for long attracted protracted discussions and even detailed researches. There has been little attention however given to the possible role of mentor programs in keeping the young people off crime. This research proposal hence looks into the role that such a schedule can play in ensuring there is lesser juvenile delinquency.
The research will delve into the possibility of having each juvenile delinquent identifying the hero or mentor in their life at the time that they are being booked in to the rehabilitation facilities and then the facility officials contacting the mentor with the aim of having them regularly visit the juvenile in the facility to help in mentoring them into their dream career. This will add to the role played by the rehabilitation facility officials of helping the juveniles detest crime in the future. The two, working hand-in-hand will ensure the juvenile leaves the facility with a well developed character in terms of discipline as well as futuristic thinking and a vision to pursue. With the vision to look towards, the youth will not want to be distracted by crimes and go back to the rehabilitation facility since it will be a waste of their time. They will want to follow the footsteps of the role model that they have been working with through the time they have been in the facility.
The research also aims at using the mentors and role models since most of the crimes that juveniles get sentenced for are domestic and most are prone to look at their parents as the source of their misery and failing to protect them from going into the confinement in the first place. This often creates a barrier hence it would be hard to use the parents as a bridge towards mentoring the youth to their careers.
This research will be applicable and helpful to not only the rehabilitation facilities who will use it to produce an all round youth after their time is done, but also the parents and institutions like schools in seeing the importance of attaching adolescents to role models. Adolescents are known to…
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