Word: youths
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...down. Today the school-bullies are still a problem, but the method of dealing with them--at least in Massachusetts--has undergone radical change. Ever since the last Massachusetts training school closed in 1971, the state has been shifting its focus away from imprisonment of youth and towards community-based treatment and "preventive medicine" for potential juvenile offenders...
...seeking a middle ground between the polarized views of 'Lock them all up' or 'Let them all go,'" says John A. Calhoun, Commissioner of the Division of Youth Services (DYS), a state-funded agency that is charged with detaining and referring delinquent youth both before and after they have been tried in court. Young and articulate, Calhoun has served as commissioner of DYS for the past 13 months. Within the state bureaucracy, he is strongly liked in some quarters, but disliked in others for his innovative and sometimes controversial views on juvenile delinquency...
Murphy is quick to draw a causal link between such community programs as half-way houses and the decrease in juvenile crime. He especially credits the National Youth Program Using Mini-Bikes (NYPUM) as a central factor in contributing to the youthful crime drop in Cambridge. "NYPUM's probably the most significant factor in keeping kids busy," Murphy says...
Cambridge's program, with an enrollment of 120 juveniles and 40 bikes, receives its funding partly from the Cambridge Police Department, and partly from the Massachusetts Youth Resources Bureau...
...problem with this method of rehabilitation, however, is that "though adult offenders can earn the money to pay, juveniles often can't," Judge Lawrence F. Feloney, senior presiding justice at Cambridge's Third District Court, says. Feloney said in most of his juvenile cases, the youth is assigned to a probation officer and dealt with on a one-to-one basis...