Get Tough Youth Programs

According to The National Institute of Health, programs for adolescents that employ scare tactics are not effective in deterring criminal behavior.

“The trouble with boot camps, group detention centers and other ‘get tough’ programs is that they bring together young people who are inclined toward violence and teach one another how to commit more crime, the panel said. ‘The more sophisticated instruct the more naive in precisely the behaviors that the intervener wishes to prevent.’"

[From “'Get Tough' Youth Programs Are Ineffective, Panel Says”, by The Associated Press, October 17, 2004]