When an offender is paroled, special conditions may be placed by the parole board upon the individual, to ensure that the rehabilitative process began in prison continues. "In addition to establishing the standard rules which include paying restitution, maintaining contact with their parole agent, submitting to searches and not leaving the state without permission" ("Division of Juvenile Justice: FAQs, 2008, CDCR). These special stipulations may include counseling for substance abuse or anger management, substance abuse treatment in a residential facility, drug testing, not associating with certain individuals (like members of the offender's former gang) and even earning a high school diploma or equivalency degree. The system takes an 'interest' in the development of the young offender ("Division of Juvenile Justice: FAQs, 2008, CDCR).
The youthful offender "can earn an early discharge from parole supervision if they perform well on parole for a significant period of time," which the court system calls paying off their restitution in full to society, again reflecting the growing shift to seeing retribution, to some degree, as a critical element even of the once ostensibly rehabilitative system ("Division of Juvenile Justice: FAQs, 2008, CDCR). The offender may be dishonorably discharged from parole if he or she does not meet the conditions of the parole.
Although even adult programs have attempted to embrace a philosophy of rehabilitation or restorative justice before the adult is released into the community, for example, by requiring offenders to engage in community clean-up -- juvenile courts have made even more extensive use of such efforts as community service, sensitivity training, giving back to the community, repairing the offense (like cleaning up graffiti), or 'boot camps' to educate the youths as to how to become more functional members of society. These service and educational activities are meant to teach as well as to repair the harm done by the offender to society.
The increasing shift to retribution and extracting punishment in the juvenile justice system, despite the continued existence of such programs...
Ideally, diversion should take place at the earliest stages of juvenile justice processing, to refer a youth to essential services and avert further involvement in the system. On the other hand, diversion mechanisms can be put into place at later stages of justice processing, to avoid further penetration into the system and expensive out-of-home placements. Efforts to keep youth out of the juvenile justice system who otherwise would be processed
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