Strategies For Successful Reintegration of Indigenous Juvenile

Running head: REINTEGRATION OF INDEGENEOUS JUVENILE OFFENDERS
Strategies for successful reintegration of Indigenous juvenile offenders into the community
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REINTEGRATION OF INDEGENEOUS JUVENILE OFFENDERS
Strategies for the successful reintegration of Indigenous juvenile offenders into the community
after imprisonment
According to research, indigenous juveniles and young adults can be kept out of
detention hence reducing reoffending through diversionary means. Offenders with a long history
of criminality face many challenges that interfere with their ability to be law-abiding citizens.
Crime prevention strategies are said to be complete if attention is focused on social offenders
through conviction, incarceration, and reintegration into the community especially among the
Aboriginal Communities in Australia (Walsh et al., 2011). The programs are mainly focused on
dynamic risk factors such as drug abuse, unemployment as well as specific crimes groups such as
sex offenders. The programs are organized at the prison level, assistance based, care programs
and surveillance-based programs. This essay analyzes the offenders’ criminal justice system as
well as the ways that can be used to reduce aboriginal communities’ engagement in crime and
detention.
Reducing Risk Factors
Community and institutional-based treatment services focus on employment, drug and
substance abuse, attitudes, education, housing and accommodation, and mental health to change
an individual or offender. Not all risk factors are successful in bringing a positive impact on an
offender. According to Bonta, & Andrews (2012), interventions such as family literacy and
education, pre-school education, teaching social and critical skills and overall change in schools
help in reducing risk factors.

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REINTEGRATION OF INDEGENEOUS JUVENILE OFFENDERS
Treatment services and programs differ in efficacy hence not all are effective. Some
offenders fail to respond to treatment. This is motivated by the lack of willingness and drive to
accept that they are responsible for the crimes they committed. Secondly, institutions and people
fail to infer enough motivation to convince the offender to respond to treatment. Most juvenile
offenders or youth lack knowledge of such programs, there is a poor target among professionals
and participation levels in youth education are low. However successful completion of treatment
shows positive results of reintegration into the community.
Supervision of young offenders
The focus on the development of aftercare interventions for juvenile and young offenders
as a way of integrating youth and reducing the rate of reoffending have mixed results. Intensive
supervision is done through Electronic Monitoring (EM). The approach involves the selection of
low-risk offenders who are subjected to the process of analyzing the effectiveness of recidivism,
revocations and recorded infractions. Studies according to Bonta, & Andrews (2012) indicate
that there has not been a positive indication of the effectiveness of EM in the reintegration of
moderate to high-risk offenders. EM is only effective if it is used alongside other forms of
successful treatments.
Offenders are subjected to counseling and the development of social and critical thinking
skills. The approach uses the Learning Resource Program (LRP) administered during probation.
High-risk offenders taken through EM treatment showed an improvement in behavior compared
to low-risk offenders. According to () low-risk offenders showed increased rates of recidivism
after being taken through intensive treatment. Therefore, the use of Electronic Monitoring can
only be successful if used alongside other successful forms of treatment. The research on the