Treatment of Young Offenders and Presentence Investigation, Workshop 1, Summary Report of the Repporteur (From Resource Material Series Number 24, P 114-122, 1983 - See NCJ-94520)

• NCJ Number: 94528
• Author(s): C J Lau
• Date Published: 1983
• Length: 9 pages
• Corporate Author: United Nations Asia and Far East Institute for the Prevention of Crime and Treatment of Offenders
• Publication Format: Document
• Language: English
• Country: United Nations
• Note: *This document is currently unavailable from NCJRS.

Annotation

A workshop on the treatment of young offenders and presentence investigation highlighted treatment issues and procedures in Hong Kong, Indonesia, Jamaica, Korea, and Japan and focused on community-based corrections.

Abstract

Workshop participants consisted of a correctional services administrator, an assistant judge, a family court probation officer, an official of a Directorate General of Corrections, one correctional services officer, and a prison officer. Criminal justice systems in each country were described as were countermeasures taken to cope with increasing crime trends. The group also explored the advantages of community-based treatment, especially probation to deal with problems in the proper social context. Another area of concern was how to make the presentence social enquiry report briefer and more effective. To focus on the rehabilitative aspects of corrections, corrections systems must mobilize public support and stimulate the interest of well-known citizens who can lend their personal prestige to community education and recruitment campaigns. The use of citizen volunteers to assist in supervising offenders has yielded increasing significance, judging from the successful use of volunteers in Japan and Singapore. The role of the family and the importance to society as well as the government in effectively dealing with juvenile delinquency was also highlighted.