Preventing Juvenile Crime: A Two-Article Analysis

This assignment delves into the topic of crime prevention, specifically focusing on juvenile delinquency. It examines two research articles, "Justice Policy Reform for High-Risk Juveniles" and "Crime can be prevented if schools teach juvenile offenders to read," analyzing their methodologies, findings, and proposed solutions. The analysis highlights the importance of legislation, educational interventions, and addressing the underlying factors contributing to juvenile crime.

Can crime be prevented?

Table of Contents
METHODOLOGY..........................................................................................................................1
SEARCH TERMS...........................................................................................................................1
PRECIS OF 1ST ARTICLE............................................................................................................1
PRECIS OF 2ND ARTICLE...........................................................................................................1
DISCUSSION AND CONCLUSION.............................................................................................1
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................3

METHODOLOGY
In order to search for relevant articles, precise methodology has been selected. Research
papers of both qualitative and quantitative research and articles related with crime reduction and
prevention proposed after year 2007 has been categorised in inclusion criteria and before 2007
were considered as exclusion criteria.
SEARCH TERMS
Crime reduction. Juvenile justice, serious offenders, Recidivism, juvenile offenders, crime
legislation and regulations, callous-unemotional, serious offenders, adolescent development,
School justice system.
PRECIS OF 1ST ARTICLE
The first article selected was “Justice Policy Reform for High-Risk Juveniles: Using
Science to Achieve Large-Scale Crime Reduction”. Authors focused on regulations on juvenile
crime. Pragmatic necessity has fuelled interest in both crime reduction and research on
anticipation and malleability of criminal behaviour. In order to reduce the crime rates, authorities
needs to treat adolescent of age between 10-13 (mitigation principles) and age 14-18 precisely
(institutional placements) (Skeem, Scott and Mulvey, 2014). Through this the crime can be
prevented effectively and efficiently. The researcher systematically reviewed the legislation,
laws and regulation which mandates crime and aid in reduction of crime.
PRECIS OF 2ND ARTICLE
The second article selected was “Crime can be prevented if schools teach juvenile
offenders to read” . The article focuses on the issue faced by juvenile offenders when go to
school. They identified that school was not able to address the expectations of youths involved in
juvenile justice system without considering educational needs. Research elucidated that crime
and education are tied together inextricably and factors such as student grade, school
achievement, etc. (Vacca, 2008). When student fail to achieve in the school environment, they
tried other methods to succeed. The article focuses on youth psychology in school and what
motivates them to perpetrate crime.
DISCUSSION AND CONCLUSION
Both the articles focused on juvenile crime and shows methods to reduce them. In one
article the systematic review of adolescent offenders has been conducted. In the article
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researchers put emphasis on law and regulations in order to prevent juveniles to perpetrate crime
and criminal activities. They contends that stricter laws might prevent juveniles crime and thus
the crime rates can be decreased eventually. The researchers collect information from relevant
sources and collected data in appropriate manner in order to generate meaningful information.
In the second paper, researcher has focused on the school system in order to prevent
juveniles offences at schools. The researcher concentrate on the behaviour of students who fail to
succeed in the school environment, they might choose to search for some other area in which to
excel. Incarcerated youths who attend school typically experience chronic academic and
behavioural difficulties, truancy, grade retention, and suspension. The article able to answer three
research questions which were reading achievement of the juvenile offenders, relationship
between the reading achievement of juvenile offenders and recidivism and roles of school in
order to improve reading achievement of juvenile offenders. From the analysis of the precis of
articles it can be concluded that both the articles focused on crime prevention and able to
generate measure which state that crime can be prevented.
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REFERENCES
Books and Journals
Skeem, J.L., Scott, E. and Mulvey, E.P., 2014. Justice policy reform for high-risk juveniles:
Using science to achieve large-scale crime reduction. Annual Review of Clinical
Psychology, 10, pp.709-739.
Vacca, J.S., 2008. Crime can be prevented if schools teach juvenile offenders to read. Children
and Youth Services Review, 30(9), pp.1055-1062.
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