Assault in the City

Assault in the City







Assault in the City
Difference Between Adult and Juvenile Correctional Facilities

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Assault in The City
Difference Between Adult and Juvenile Correctional Facilities
Sexual assaults in the United States has become a serious problem, whether in the juvenile population or the adult population. Adults who sexually offend may have been sexually abused as a child themselves. Juvenile sex offenders may grow up to commit over 380 sexual offenses in their lifetime (Nelson, 2007).
Juvenile correctional facilities and adult prisons are similar in that both are used to incarcerate and punish the offender. Adult prison may house a juvenile, but juvenile facilities cannot house adults. Residential placement of juveniles in a correctional facility and in other non-secure facilities utilizes confinement fixtures or other methods to confine the juveniles within the facility (Development Services Group, Inc. 2010). Juvenile correction has a larger purpose than the adult corrections system, the larger purpose is to rehabilitate and not to just confine the youth, and adult prison focuses on incarceration for punishment (Development Services Group, Inc. 2010).
Treatment of adult sex offender have had relatively consistent pattern of positive findings when cognitive-behavioral/relapse prevention treatment, behavioral treatment, and hormonal medication was used (Przybylski, n.d.). Evidence of the treatment effectiveness of both individual studies and synthesis research that has been conduct over the past 10 years has shown that researchers agree that knowledge base is far from complete, evidence does show that certain therapeutic intervention specifically cognitive-behavioral/relapse prevention is the most successful treatment modality for the reduction in recidivism of some adult sex offenders (Przybylski, n.d.). Though the evidence has shown that therapeutic interventions work for criminal offenders overall, up for...

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