Informational Interview This is informational interview aimed at encouraging one to gather more information about crime prevention. It is an opportunity to interview a person associated with a crime prevention program associated with serving juveniles or a person in law enforcement and ask about their crime prevention efforts. Step 1: Select a person to interview (Mr.Richard Aborn, the president of the Citizens Crime Commission of New York City ) For this assignment, you are required to interview one person that either works in a crime prevention program for juveniles or in law enforcement. Before choosing the actual individual you would like to interview, decide what you want to get out of the interview. Some questions you could ask are as follows: What are the program goals and objectives? Who are the individuals they serve? What are successes they have had within the program? How is the program funded? These are all questions to consider, plus what you want to gain from the interview. Search the internet and look for local crime prevention programs. You should conduct research of the program and individual you want to interview. Use your research to support your choice and to develop interview questions. Contact the program/individual and explain that you want to conduct an informational interview for your class assignment and then schedule the interview. Select more than one individual to interview in case your first choice is not available.
¶ … gathering of information on crime prevention initiatives is critical in the quest for a better equipped and evidence-based crime prevention programs (UNODC,2010).In this paper, we present the outcome of an interview which was conducted with Mr. Richard Aborn, the president of the Citizens Crime Commission of New York City, an independent non-profit organization which is nonpartisan and is focused on criminal justice as well as public safety policy reform. A review of their view on the Juvenile justice system is presented below.
Which program have you initiated towards the larger juvenile justice system?
We have started a program aimed at pressurizing the federal government to raise the age of legal responsibility from 16 to 18 years.
What are the program goals and objectives?
The main goal of the program is to prevent underage executions and sentencing. This is because juveniles are supposed to be punished as juveniles and not as adults. The objectives are to come up with a better alternative to the harsh punishments that is usually meted against our Children and also to protect the rights of these children to safe and fair punishment.
Who are the individuals they serve?
The program is meant at serving the children of New York, the parents as well as the greater New York Society.
What are successes they have had within the program?
At the moment, our success cannot be quantified. This is because we are still at an early state of the initiative.What is best is that we have created an awareness and our leaders seems to be listening. We are currently seeking Congressional support for the same.
What is your view on the controversy surrounding the New York Juvenile justice system's policy on execution of Juveniles?
My view is that the age of criminal responsibility should be raised to 18. My very first question is why the legal age of drinking has been raised too high to 21 years while lowering the legal age of criminal/legal responsibility to 16.There is something very wrong here. Our organization is increasingly getting concerned that our state, New York which is has a great reputation of being one of the most progressive places in our nation is working very hard to be the last state in the nation in the manner in which it treats its citizens aged 16 and over within its criminal justice system.
Well, historically looking at this situation, the state has recognized the main differences between the adults and youths by carefully operating two separate courts as well as correctional facilities for each population. The state of New York has defined these systems's jurisdiction by appropriately setting the age limits for both populations.
Under the New York law, once a child attains their 16th birthday, they are automatically considered to be criminally responsible for their individual actions. This means that all the 16 and 17-year-old children are, regardless of the committed crime subjected are prosecuted, sentenced as well as corrected as adults. The New York's juvenile justice system only handles children aged between 6 and 17.
Why is the age that defines criminal responsibility significant?
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