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A 10 page paper which examines recent, or
current, literature concerning juvenile corrections in the United States. Bibliography lists
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and social services. Issues like welfare dependence, poverty, changes in family status and educational failure have all been defined as factors in an increasing population of juvenile offenders.
As a result, social theorists, social workers, and public advocacy groups have argued for the necessity for family services in correction facilities. Advocates of family-based social services have argued
that services may reduce recidivism and may improve the overall function of adolescent offenders when they return to the population at large. In understanding the existing views on the use
of family services in correction facilities, it is necessary to understand the underlying purposes for the development of family services, the focus of existing literature regarding social services and criminal
activity, and determine the basis for claims of benefits of family services to reduce recidivism. These elements are reflected in the current literature (past five years), as well as
some background literature and theories that are older than five years. History of Family Services in Corrections The history of family services in corrections can be traced to
the creation of the first juvenile court in 1899 and the first organizations to address the needs of abused women, families and the protection of women and children, The Chicago
Protective Agency, established in 1885 (Roberts and Brownell, 1999). It was not until the late 1960s and early 1970s, though, that a shift occurred in the connection between family
services and juvenile corrections, with a view on the role that social workers, group workers and corrections administrators played. By the 1970s, it was recognized that social workers played
a fundamental role in the creation of community-based treatment plans for juvenile offenders. A number of theorists in the 1950s, 60s and 70s raised the question of the best
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