Citizens Against Recidivism, Inc.

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Delinquency Intervention Program

To address this growing problem of youth violence and delinquency, Citizens Against Recidivism, Inc. has organized a delinquency intervention program primarily focused upon depicting for youth characteristics and behaviors that lead to juvenile arrest and confinement.

Programming for youth work best when they are community based and community supported. They are more likely to achieve their objectives when clear and consistent examples of the consequences for delinquent behavior are presented to youth.

Seminars

Citizens Against Recidivism, Inc. organizes seminar where the primary focus includes depictions of significant aspects of the past lives prisoners lead that facilitated their incarceration.  At the conclusion of these seminars the expectation is that young people will be deterred from similar behavior and from a similar fate.  During the DIP seminars the attention of the youth is directed toward the consequences of criminal behavior and upon the personal responsibility of youth to avoid negative behavior. 

People involved in the seminars present themselves and the fact of their previous incarcerations as living proof of the consequences of criminal behavior.  These real life presentations are meant to provide youth with an opportunity to give serious thought to the repercussions of delinquent illegal activities before engaging in them.  The approach is non-confrontational, non-judgmental, and without unnecessary aggression.  Presentations are about events that took place in the lives of each presenter.  The focus upon personal responsibility suggests persons who engage in illegal activity will have no one and nothing to blame for their down fall once they engage in criminal behavior except themselves.  This approach also encourages youth to probe themselves for more viable solutions to problems they are confronted with instead of negative alternatives offered in the street.

Topics Reviewed During Seminars

  • Home Environment
  • Valued character traits
  • Social Attitudes and Behaviors
  • Pubescence
  • Peers/Peer Groups
  • Society
  • Money
  • Trust
  • Self esteem 
  • Authority
  • Respect
  • Rites of passage
  • Sexual activity
  • Idolization
  • Drugs
  • Crime
  • Needs 

In Community Youth Workshops

Care of youth is a local responsibility.  Programming for youth work best when they are community based and community supported. They are more likely to achieve their objectives when clear and consistent examples of the consequences for delinquent behavior are presented to youth.

The workshops assume a peer support group setting.  Peer support groups involve informal but regular meetings among equals in a situation where they deal with specific issues youth are confronted with that often lead to delinquent behavior, arrest, and imprisonment.  The peer meetings enable youth to arrive at solutions collectively and to do have discussions things that are better done in a group rather than individually.  The responsibility for the success of this group rests with each individual.

Facilitators trained at Citizens Against Recidivism, Inc will guide the groups.  As currently outlined, a full program will run for ten weeks and may be repeated with different sets of youth throughout the year.


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*Data and information used for this summary were taken from the NYS Department of Correctional Services.  A detailed copy of the report entitled PROFILE OF POPULATION UNDER CUSTODY ON JANUARY 1, 2008, may be found at http://www.docs.state.ny.us/Research/Reports/2009/UnderCustody_Report_2009.pdf

 

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Last modified: 11/20/10