Critique on Parents and Prisons

Critique on Parents
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Critique on Parents
and Prisons
Strayer University
Assignment #2
CRJ 180
Online Summer 2012
Felicia McCaw

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ABSTRACT



Youth troubled descent from single parent households to juvenile delinquency. Following a path of no return is troubled youth with too much time on their hand and too little supervision and non-structural home life. Eventually becoming incarcerated into a non-parental facility and evolved into a people who fall through the cracks of society.
























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One of the most interesting aspects of evaluating relationships between single parent households and delinquency is the effect of how delinquency evolves until youth is incarcerated in prison. Conclusive thought has gone into the analysis of does a negative connotation evolve from such relationships.
Because of this some view prisons as a sort of substitute parent because of the lack of structure and discipline received at home. With that thought in mind the conclusion most seem to have is the child(s) will eventually end up in the criminal system at some point in his/her life. Further is the thought is that children without parents have a higher probability of being incarcerated to non-parental supervision or structures.
Consequently, a youth once in the criminal system will be in a system unlike a parental setting but in a rigid, controlling supervising atmosphere. It is not a warm, nurturing and loving structural program to prepare a child or youth for his/her life on their own What it does is cause a depressive moronic behavioral pattern that breeds discontent, hostility, anger and resentment because their chances are slim to limited of getting the career they want. The needed societal interventions are disabled and cannot operate properly and does not replace any kind of relationship that would have been established by a parent and a child.
Because of this a child or youth has lost something valuable that only parents can provide and that is the stabilizing force that exists in all parental and youth relationships that installs principles, morals, standards, honesty, integrity and honor which enables that a child or youth to be a success in society. This stabilizing force allows the teaching of societal norms, restrictions, allowances and taboos of society that are acceptable by humane society.
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Further without this stabilizing force a child or youth will be unable to repair the loss easily but it is possible even with damage control if someone steps in and assist that child or youth and places them on the right path to foil the so-called “damage control” that is mentioned exists when a child has no conscience, no self-control and is a problematic blight to their self as well as society.
Acknowledged is the thought frame that this is a free society with freedom of speech and thought but society needs people with conscience and that is knowledge of what is right and wrong and the caring to treat others as self and fairly. All know the law of lands and the cost of deviating from those laws but some allow too much leeway when it comes to deciding others fate. Preference is given to those who they feel are more favorable instead of sticking to the principles of right and wrong. By exuding this dastardly example of deviation societal norms are altered and detrimental behavior become the norm and defeats the purpose of what was structured in the first place. Because the legalities are curved and become lax and are not held honorably because of personal interventions of those with power the foundations of stability have been disturbed and affected social norms are slowly deteriorating. Acknowledgement of the causal problems has to be sought and need to be reversed and re-standardized utilizing psychological wooing and a new approach has to be initiated.
One of the first things is to try to establish self-control and establishing value in a youth or child. Learning reciprocity, trust, and empathy from someone who cares and sees a youth descending into a primal existence is the reason to help stop the disruption of foundations that is massively developing and re-route them to a more positive route to prevent the destruction of all
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moralistic values established and halt the contagion of behavior that could be uncontrollable and lead to the destruction of our youth.
Children or youth in gangs are the most vulnerable because they have no familial authority and have been on their own since a youthful age. Saving these youth entails more effort, love, foundational support and empathy for the loss and utter loneliness in their lives. Knowing someone does care and know the pain of nothing will help a youth transcend from that arena into a life that society approves of and fit society norms and structural basis.
Incarceration is not always the way to save and rehabilitate sometimes it is the last step when a youth will not yield to the laws of the land and society’s expectations. Prison is the last step that no youth should want since it is paramount to what is known as the “gateway”. The “gateway” is for those people who fall through the “cracks of society” and are unwanted and unneeded because they would not follow the laws of the land or society norms.
An example of primal behavior gone extreme was two youth who have defied the norms and laws of land and killed their mother and dumped her body in a ravine in Orange County. This further supports the thought of possible danger single parents may be in from their own youth because the inability to provide structural foundations, respect, self-control, love, support or a familial emotions that would prevent this mindless killing of a parent. Because of this lack of conscience and sociopathic nature more scrutiny is being aimed at these disturbing killings of people and have to be addressed as such “savagery begets savagery” and the laws must deal with this type of behavior with a harsh, cruel and immediate hand.

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Still the need for trying to find a causal link between single parenthood and criminal behavior exists. From misbehavior to less available time to spend with a child is reflective of the opportunity to allow delinquency and truancy to evolve and subsequently develop into criminal behavior. Fractured families which were formally whole are productive of the same results as an original family with a single parent. Because of this the theory of non-infant attachment to the parental host and the child a bond cannot form if the parent is absent. Further providing the thought that the parent even present cannot properly bond if absent from structure for long periods and therein lies the possibility of an attachment disordered child or youth to come into existence that may become a truly dangerous sociopath...someone who doesn’t think about anyone else or cares what they think, does whatever they can get away with regardless of who gets hurt.
Consequently, the process of observing what the cause of the problem and usually it revolves around a disruption in a non-structural home life or in upbringing. Establishing a causal link has been proven and reflects the troubled situation and trying to reverse it is the goal of all involved.





REFERENCES
Hoover Institution. Stanford University. Parents or Prisons. Retrieved July 11, 2012, from
http://www.hoover.org/publications/policy-review/article/7976
Family. JRank Organization. Juvenile Delinquency – Family Structure. Retrieved July 11, 2012,
from
http://family.jrank.org/pages/1006/juvenile-delinquency-family-structure.html