Research Article

Resource Article Analysis

Zachary Reines

CJA/334

December 8, 2014

Rich Bendelewski

Resource Article Analysis

The Annie E. Casey Foundation conducted research for reducing juvenile incarceration. The name of their research is titled No Place for Kids. Juvenile prisons are found to be dangerous, ineffective, unnecessary, wasteful, and inadequate according to their study. The purpose of the study is to show America’s heavy reliance on juvenile incarceration is a failed strategy for combating youth crime (2011). The questions the study asks are: what’s wrong with America’s juvenile correctional facilities? Is it really safe to reduce juvenile confinement? How should states go about reforming juvenile corrections? The researchers use a descriptive design in order to answer questions of who, what, when, where, and how associated with juvenile corrections.

The study measures the number of youth confined in correctional facilities and programs in the United States. The evidence they came up with shows our nation’s reliance of youth incarceration does not reduce future offending by the youth, doesn’t provide any benefit to public safety, it is a waste of taxpayer dollars, and they expose youth to high levels of violence and abuse. Recidivism rates within the United States for juvenile correction and are able to show that within three years of release about 75 percent of youth are rearrested (2011). Research shows that incarceration also reduces the youth’s future success in education and youth that are incarcerated before the age of 16 have a 26 percent less chance at graduating high school by the age of 19 (2011).

An example of inductive reasoning found in the results is that in cases that don’t involve serious crimes or where the youth doesn’t pose a threat to society, removing them from their home and placing them in a facility is expensive, unnecessary, and worse than community-based supervision and treatment. An example of deductive found in the results is...