It is irrefutable that juvenile offenders with mental and behavioral health issues face a greater risk of becoming involved with the juvenile justice system. Current research confirms that juveniles with disabilities; emotional, mental, or behavioral, are more likely to be arrested and incarcerated than their peer counterparts without disabilities (Holmquist, 2013). While the relationship between police and youth offenders with such disorders presents many challenges, the following highlights two
the literature review through zero-tolerance policies and the effects it has played on graduation rates. Zero-tolerance policies have dramatically increased students being recommended to the court system according to the literature review. The literature review has shown a need for school districts to examine zero-tolerance policies and the negative effects that it has caused on students. Fran Silverman (2005) discusses students being punished under zero-tolerance and says, “The students were disciplined
race—we have learned how to effectively, successfully, and profitably “solve” the idea of criminal behavior, especially with respect to how we punish crimes and other deviant behaviors. Our modern penal system encompasses a total of approximately 1,574,700 inmates according to the Bureau of Justice Statistics. The Corrections Corporation of America, the largest private prison owner in the United States reported a 500% increase in profits from 1993 to 2013. It seems that the modern industrial prison