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"Scared Straight" programs?
Have you ever seen these tv shows documenting these programs? Or, have you ever experienced them either first-hand or second-hand? If so, what do you think of them? Do you believe they are beneficial and/or helpful?
I've only watched the tv shows and done some reading both for and against. It seems like a good idea, but my gut tells me to be skeptical, and there seems to be a great deal of theatrics, so I remain unconvinced.
"Scared Straight" programs?
Have you ever seen these tv shows documenting these programs? Or, have you ever experienced them either first-hand or second-hand? If so, what do you think of them? Do you believe they are beneficial and/or helpful?
I've only watched the tv shows and done some reading both for and against. It seems like a good idea, but my gut tells me to be skeptical, and there seems to be a great deal of theatrics, so I remain unconvinced.
Are we talking about the jail stuff or the 'Pray it away' church programs?
The jail stuff.
I guess part of why I'm skeptical is when an inmate gets in a kid's face and threatens to take them behind a closed door and beat them up... and I know there's no chance of that happening right then and there (maybe later when the kid is an inmate them self, but that's different)... I get skeptical. But, the kid doesn't necessarily know that.My husband use to work for a Juvenile detention facility - they were beneficial.
Kids are too stupid and immature to actually realize that, odds are, that's where they'll end up. . . Telling them doesn't do much, as they don't listen to authority. Showing them on a tv show does nothing, either, as teens and kids tend to think they'll always be the exception that gets away with everything. Putting them in an extreme situation is the only way to get through their thick, stupid skulls that they have a future and they're just throwing it away.
It's like my Great Aunt Genevieve who popped out her fake eye as evidence as to why you shouldn't look down the barrel of a BB gun.
If you think I ever looked down a barrel of a BB gun after that, you're insane. I was terrified. Now, as an adult, that has turned into caution - I never put my face in front of anything that can eject or explode.
I don't have much faith in human nature - from my experience, people, particularly young people, are averse to learning from other people's mistakes - we often will listen to how to succeed at something we want to succeed at - thus positive role models and experiences are usually received favorably - but try to tell a young person the ills of smoking, the ills of over drinking, the ills of drugs, the ills of getting caught in crime, etc. is basically useless - if they really want to try something bad enough, no amount of warning is going to stop them.
But it's really great for those who want to toss out the "I told you so" barbs.
I guess part of why I'm skeptical is when an inmate gets in a kid's face and threatens to take them behind a closed door and beat them up... and I know there's no chance of that happening right then and there (maybe later when the kid is an inmate them self, but that's different)... I get skeptical. But, the kid doesn't necessarily know that.
Really?Prisoners fight and kill each other at an alarming rate.
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