This site is a comprehensive directory or Resources for Troubled Teens and their families (See Abstracts Below). If you are looking for more information on troubled teens, whether you are a parent of a troubled teen, an educational consultant, or a professional who serves the needs of troubled teens, this site will be of great help. It is our goal to be the very best resource and directory on every subject regarding troubled teens, schools for troubled teens, troubled teen schools, programs for troubled teens, troubled teen programs, camps for troubled teens, troubled teen camps, help for troubled teens, and troubled teen help.
This web site is about the nation's troubled teens, troubled teens that are actively involved in antisocial behaviors that are causing havoc and discord, and are involved with the “justice” system to some degree. Our purpose is to provide some answers to typical questions from the parents of troubled teens, schools for troubled teens, troubled teen schools, programs for troubled teens, troubled teen programs, help for troubled teens, and troubled teen help. Throughout, there is an alphabetical list of Internet resources that may be helpful to people researching topics regarding troubled teens.
ABSTRACT FOR ARTICLES ON TROUBLED TEENS
How should juveniles-in-trouble be handled?
Approaches to the problem generally fall into two camps: the public health solution, and the law enforcement solution. Advocates of the public health approach tend to see juveniles today as victims of an anti-youth culture. The problem is not just parents failing children, but a whole attitude among adult society that is increasingly hostile, angry, and punishing toward youth. It's also not just poverty, per se, among children, but the relative deprivation of living in a society of affluence in which self-esteem is tied to achieving affluence. People are only hosts, not causes, of social problems, according to the public health model. The real enemies (if there need to be enemies at all) are the environment (broad social forces that shape their way through culture) and the agent (the means of violence, firearms and access to weapons). Intervene, and then trace the pathology back to its source. The source often turns out to be low SES families and neighborhoods where there have been few prevention programs, poor economic and educational opportunities, and no way to reintegrate released offenders back into the community.
The law enforcement solution looks at the problem in terms of what needs to be done to improve investigation, arrest, prosecution, and conviction. Advocates of this approach perceive that a nationwide crackdown, "get tough on juvenile crime" program is what this country needs, but they are also just as likely to want the delivery of real rehabilitation programs in juvenile prisons, at least when we are better able to separate the minor offenders from superpredators. For the most part, however, the belief is that it is society's duty to punish, not rehabilitate, and boot camps, life terms, and even executions are in order for juveniles if they deserve it. They should serve time as adults, and face the ultimate punishment, no matter what the age. Troubled neighborhoods can be made safer by municipal curfews. Some of the more common law enforcement solutions, and how they work, are outlined below:
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