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power_point_slides.pptApplying the SARA Model to Generate a Solution to a Rise in Crime
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Introduction
- Centervale has been facing theft problems and the residents of the region claims that the problem originates from the halfway house that caters delinquent males.
- Reports and claims of the residents shows clearly that the problems of theft were not present in the region until the halfway house was established.
- Residents of Cantervale also complains that these juveniles should not be allowed to interact with the society since they are yet to overcome their high risk behaviors.
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The purpose of this presentation is to present a SARA model that can generate a solution to the problem the people of Centervale are facing. This presentation will therefore provide the background of the problem, analyze the issue using SARA model, identify the stakeholders that can be used to solve the problem and summarize the potential future of community policing based on the issue.
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Stakeholders of Resolving the problem
- The stakeholders needed include the both federal and national government.
- Criminal justice system.
- Non-governmental organizations(Miller, 2014).
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There are many agencies that are required to be part of finding a solution to high risk reintegration of offenders to the general community. The national and federal governments should led by implementing policies that ensures that such high risk individuals are handled carefully and their interaction with the general society is highly regulated. Criminal justice agencies such as police department should make sure that released prisoners including juveniles include those individuals that are safe to the community (McGuire, 2012).
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Actual Underlying issue
- The main underlying issue is the challenge in having a proper reintegration of offenders.
- Centervale issues are arising because the criminal justice system, federal and National government policy does not have a carefully evaluated method of rehabilitating juvenile offenders with high risk behaviors.
- Police department seems not to be tracking offenders highly enough to notice when and where they go.
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Setting up of the halfway house is a clear sign of problems in managing juveniles by the national and federal government. There seems to be no individual rehabilitation programs that should fit each juvenile such that they are only released to the community after verification of fitness. These juveniles are also not tracked and monitored carefully which would prevent them from finding their way out to steal(McGuire, 2012).
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Analyses of the problem
- Lack of clear policy from the government is ending up in an unorganized coordination of these juveniles.
- The program of correcting behavior used is the evidence of problem in the policy.
- The policy should have identified the potential problems that would have been caused by these juveniles(McGuire, 2012).
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Comprehensive crime prevention programs should have clear, evaluation and consideration of the after effects of implementation (Miller, 2014). The halfway house program, in Centervale did not identify the potential problems that these juveniles would cause and therefore the presence of increased cases of theft that have been reported by the residents.
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Response to the problem
- A new plan must be implemented to ensure that these juveniles are not released to the community until they are rehabilitated enough.
- The plan must start with the government response to the claims of Centervale residents.
- The claims should lead to a new policy and program.
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Due to many challenges that the new system has, the halfway house should be abolished and a new plan put in place. The new plan should carefully consider social integration of offenders effects such that the policy will not lead to more crimes. Therefore, the aim of policy should be to reduce crime and effectively transform offenders already in the hands of criminal justice system (Miller, 2014).
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Sample Statistics of Released offenders being Rearrested
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Statistics above shows that the number of returning offenders who commit crime after being released from prison commit crime again and get arrested (Nathan, 2015). The graph also shows juveniles number recorded the highest percentage of re-arrest between 2013 and 2014 indicating that there needs to be a change to improve the program being used to hold these kind of individuals (Hoge, 2008).
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Recommended Plan
- Recommended plan in this case is having a properly evaluated social reintegration program.
- Such program should make sure that each juvenile has an individual rehabilitation program.
- After being satisfied fully that such offenders are safe, then it is the time to allow reintegration (Hoge, 2008).
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Social reintegration intended in this program is one that will avoid offenders with high risk behaviors such as drug abuse being released to the community before they are fully rehabilitated. This plan requires the government, general community and criminal justice agency to support each other for it to work. For instance, cultural issues and past problems such as complains on handling of juveniles should be managed easily by each community accepting that these juveniles are not safe for release to the community (Miller, 2014).
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Assessment of the program
- There are certain indications that can be identified to know that the issue of resolved.
- One such fact is recording the number of re-offenders after being released from rehabilitation centers.
- If the number of juvenile re-offenders reduces, then the program can be said to be working.
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If the recommended to improve social re-integration of juvenile offenders is improved, then the number of cases reported on them will reduce. Rehabilitation programs in form of therapies are very effective especially if they are customized according to every individual. Such program ensures that only the highly changed individuals in terms of behaviors that are released from the prison or rehabilitation centers. The high the risk profile I the juvenile, the longer and deeper rehabilitation process required (Miller, 2014).
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potential future of community policing for Centervale
- The future of community policing will mainly be rehabilitation based
- One of the main challenge Centervale middle-class community will face in the future is increased expenses
- Individualized rehabilitation program for each individual will be the main reason for increased costs (Hoge, 2008).
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Centervale community policing must adopt an individualized rehabilitation program approach to ensure that the system of corrections change and behavior modification works for juvenile offenders. However, these rehabilitation programs are very expensive and complicated. There must be a good number of psychologist who should help juvenile offenders to overcome their mental state and such professionals are paid expensively (Nathan, 2015).
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Conclusion
- One of the main challenge that Centervale community is facing in social reintegration of juvenile offenders.
- The old prison system is not the best option for juvenile offenders
- A rehabilitation program is the best option but it needs to be perfected to have a workable plan that does not lead to increased number of re-offenders.
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Prison is too violent and deterrent for juvenile offenders. That’s why a halfway house has been established in Centervale as a form of social reintegration to rehabilitate such offenders. However, it is clearly evident that the program has been poorly implemented and therefore the presence of many theft cases in the middle class community in Centervale. The only way forward is to perfect the program and the cases of theft will reduce (Hoge, 2008).
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References
- Hoge, R., Guerra, N. & Boxer, P. (2008). Treating the juvenile offender. New York: Guilford Press.
- McGuire, J. (2012). Offender rehabilitation and treatment effective programmes and policies to reduce re-offending. New York: J. Wiley.
- Miller, M., Chamberlain, J. & Wingrove, T. (2014). Psychology, law, and the wellbeing of children. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
- Nathan, K. (2015). Combating violence and delinquency : the National Juvenile Justice Action Plan : report. Washington: U.S. Dept. of Justice, Office of Justice Programs, Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention.
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