Theories on Cradle to Jail

This critical analysis discusses the theories on cradle to jail, including self-efficacy beliefs and management and probation, and their applicability to young people in the juvenile justice system. It also highlights the importance of providing proper guidance and care to children in their early childhood to prevent them from entering the prison system. The article cites various studies and research to support its arguments.

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An overview of the critical analysis
As stated in the academic literature, proper guidance is required in everyone’s
life. As observed from this literature, it can be stated that Old Kevin has been at the
Lake Country Juvenile Complex for a period of three months. He has been in the
complex before as the present one was his sixth charge of a two Chauncey’s criminal
trespass a runaway burglary. This particular charge was based on battery and not
assault. Kevin was 16 when he was sent to the Juvenile Complex.
In this case, Blade was also involved who was drunk at that moment. Kevin’s
mom accepted the fact about his activities and informed the police officers that she
wanted him to learn a lesson and pleased to be guilty of the charges that were
committed. A child’s particular needs must be given importance although it got
difficult in the case of Kevin. Every child needs special care as its proven in the case
of Kevin. Juvenile Courts are set up to check on the indicators of the juveniles staying
in the Complex (Krezmien, Leone & Wilson, 2014). If compared the situation with
female juveniles, boys are five times as to be incarcerated as girls. There are quite a
number of girls in the juvenile justice system as well. As observed from cradle to
prison, the rate of incarceration is endangering children at a very younger age. Cradle
to prison is treated to be as America’s pipeline to prison. It is considered to be a
trajectory that generally leads to marginalizing lives, premature death and
imprisonment. The purpose of Cradle to Prison is to decrease the level of detention
and incarceration with the rising rate of preventive support. It takes care of the
services that the children need and the ones that have access to a qualitative early
development of childhood. The education services were also accessible which
included comprehensive health and a coverage of mental health. Children must be
given utmost focus in their early childhood as that will have an effect in his or her life

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later (Dennis, 2014). Therefore, childhood is treated to be a special time that is
different from adulthood. This process helps the institutions of specialized children to
grow. Children are suppose to visit school regularly for providing help in educated
and skilled labor force. Juvenile courts were made for children as it was their justice
system (Murray & Alvarez, 2016). It also acted as a training school that provided a
combination teaching of prison and educational facility. Juveniles and children must
have spent their childhood in supportive environments. They must focus on the
environments within which children are grown up. While the children are growing up,
the risk they are involved with must be identified and the youth should be working on
preventing the obesity. These factors should be kept in mind while the children are in
the process of growing up. Major risk and problems are detected majorly in the
developmental process of the children. Previously, education was majorly related to
the gender stereotypes. The reasons for childhood obesity are societal. According to
the World Health Organization, Children and adolescents cannot choose the
environment in which they live or the food they eat. They also have a limited ability
to comprehend the long-term consequences of their behavior. In Canada, out of 4
children one will be found to be overweight. The federal, provincial, and territorial
ministers of health, promotes healthy weights for children by endorsing Curbing
Childhood Obesity: A Federal, Provincial and Territorial Framework for Action to
Promote Healthy Weights. Three key policy priorities were identified, including a
supportive environment. Once they are beyond the age at which they legally require a
babysitter, many are left to fend for themselves; these children have been popularized
as latchkey kids (Yust, Watson & Hyde, 2017).
However, the first theory that can be applied is self-efficacy beliefs and
management. The management and self-efficacy of teachers can be applied in the

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concept of cradle to pipeline. The practices and beliefs help in comprehending and
reducing the reasons of juveniles visiting the juvenile courts and prisons. The focus is
given on the learning process and making it strong, powerful and sustainable so that
the same is not repeated. (Cochran & Cochran, 2017). Young people stayed in school
longer, partly because they could not find jobs and partly because the jobs available
required a higher level of technical skill. Theories of Juvenile detention is a social
justice that is applicable to many families as it works with the CFRI. Cradle to
Prison Pipeline is also known as School to Prison Pipeline. In such cases, children are
pushed out of schools into the criminal justice systems. This theory is applied as the
rate of juvenile crimes have been increasing by each passing days. It has been
observed presently that such theories are applicable for babies who are just born and
not the ones going to the kindergarten. It is generally based on the skin color of the
baby and the socio-economic status of the parents of the baby. This theory usually
concerns the children belonging from low income families and the black and Latino
children. Children of color are more likely to end up in the prison as per the data and
research. However, the United States fails to value and protect all of his children
equally. They does not ensure them health care, basic hope, safety and education.
Another theory that can be applied is the process of keeping them in probation. Under
the course of probation, the juveniles will learn a lesson and treatment of not
repeating it again in future. They will be under observation and made to do activities
which help them to overcome their problem (Rosenkrantz, 2017).
Therefore, both of these theories will be applicable and helpful for the young
people as they would learn a lesson and have an experience of the concept. The
purpose of these approaches is to make them better persons and to ensure that they do
not end up in the prison for too long. Juveniles are young people who should not be

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committing such crimes. However, theories of juvenile detention and self-efficacy
will be beneficial for the young individuals in different ways. It highlights the process
in which the young people should be dealt with ad must not repeat the crime.

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Cochran, J. L., & Cochran, N. H. (2017). Effects of child-centered play therapy for students
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Efficacy Beliefs, Classroom Management, and the Cradle-to-Prison Pipeline. Theory
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Dennis, A. L. (2014). Teaching The Wire: Crime, Evidence and Kids. J. Legal Educ., 64,
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Dyce, C. M. (2015). Understanding the Challenges in Order to Increase the Educational
Outcomes for At Risk African American Males in Out-of-Home Placements:
Residential Group Homes and Foster Care. The Urban Review, 47(1), 144-160.
Krezmien, M. P., Leone, P. E., & Wilson, M. G. (2014). Marginalized students, school
exclusion, and the school-to-prison pipeline. Juvenile justice sourcebook, 267.
Murray, I. E., & Alvarez, A. (2016). Research to Practice: New Research on Helping Young
Children Develop Positive Racial Identities. YC Young Children, 71(5), 16-18.
Rosenkrantz, R. (2017). “They're Like These Little Baby Prisons”: An Examination of a
Memphis-Area Elementary School-to-Prison Pipeline.
Yust, K. M., Watson, J., & Hyde, B. (2017). The spiritual challenges of the ‘cradle to prison
pipeline’.