FACTORS INFLUENCING RECIDIVISM

Factors Influencing Recidivism among Juvenile Offenders

Chapter 4: Methodology

Description of the Deliverable

The proposed projects rationale is to reduce recidivism rates among the juveniles in their respective detention centers. For that, factors that affect recidivism are to be determined. Based on these factors, an intervention is to be devised so that effective reduction in criminal activities that affect juvenile crime should be observed. In this regard, the study would seek to adopt and propose an intervention project option.

The Rationale of Choosing the Selected Deliverable

Various explanations led to the selection of the proposed deliverable design. The primary reason for intervention researchs success as its impact on assessing an outcome variable would be investigated (Salkind, 2010). Since this studys roots are based on the social learning theory, numerous studies have been conducted to analyze the factors that influence juvenile recidivism. However, the purpose of this proposed study is to go beyond just the identification of the factors. Developing interventions for the depreciation of recidivisms specified factors and hence, the risk of recidivism is the primary goal.

Further, Salkind (2010) affirms that intervention research is not only the prevention of negative outcomes and avoiding its occurrence, but the detection of the cause of its desirable occurrence among the individuals under study. Examples of such intervention could be reducing anxiety symptoms in patients suffering from substance use disorders. Since this proposed studys target population is juvenile offenders arrested again after their release from the detention center, the juvenile criminals were already the recidivism victims signified from their re-arrest. The studys objective is to identify the factors that would help prevent recidivism and alleviate the inclination that allows recidivating again since they are at high risk of turning back to crime then. Therefore, the interventional proposed study becomes plausible as the strategies to prevent the said phenomenon should be analyzed.

Explanation of Why Other Deliverables were not Selected

The reason for not selecting other deliverables and only identifying factors influencing recidivism and the proposed intervention is that other options only provide a platform where understanding the phenomenon is encouraged. The rationales of why certain factors are and how they are conducive to recidivism...

The mitigation might either occur during their stay at the detention centers or even after they are released. The effectiveness period should be prolonged after they are released from the centers so that they are not stimulated to revert to crime, and the risk of recidivism should be minimized. Hence, the selected deliverable is intended in the proposed study and not others.

Identification of Key Stakeholders

Since the proposed project aims to have an intervention approach, the intervention manuals would be used for this purpose. An intervention manual is defined by Sidani & Braden (2011) as the document that gives particulars about the goals, mechanisms, and actions within an intervention. It also enlists what needs to be done, how it should be carried out, and the interventions delivery timing. As the nature of the current project is a cross-sectional study, it might be challenging to assess the participants progress within a specific time limit and deliver the intervention on that basis....

…the detention facilities? How resilient or acceptable were they of the religious spirituality? Did they show signs of improvement when religious involvement was increased? (Mapp, 2009) What methods the church used for their reduction of adolescent criminal tendencies? Were the group interventions more beneficial or the individual ones?

2. The social work organizations would be asked questions like in what state did the juvenile help delinquents came for seeking support? In what ways did the support organizations them? Did they support them in gaining employment after their release? Were they able to adjust themselves easily within the society, or did they find it challenging? If there were challenges, how were they addressed? Did those strategies work? For how long? (Somers, 2005)

3. The supervisors in the juvenile detention facilities could be asked the age-group and crimes of those held in the facility. Which crimes were on the top? What services and placements were used for their detention programs, and what mix of those services and staff appointment worked? After how long when they were released, did they commit another crime?

Additional Sources

To inform the development of the final project deliverable, screening tool development and resources would be used. It would be done to monitor the intervention programs efficacy to mitigate the risk factors that enable the juvenile offenders to re-offend. Checklists could be articulated to include static or dynamic risk factors (Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention, 2015). The risk score level and their relevant classifications would be noted. The severity of the risk and how it impacts the future need for another treatment plan if the juvenile offender…