The goal of incarceration of youths should be rehabilitation. In order to fix a problem we have to define it as clearly as possible. It makes no sense to put a cast on one's leg if it's the arm that's been broken: the interventions have to meet the real and not the assumed needs of the young offenders.
All too often, when juveniles are incarcerated it is just the start of a repeated pattern of committing crimes and then being jailed again. …
