Boot Camps and Scared Straight Programs Help Your Teens

Scared Straight and Beyond Scared Straight The original Scared Straight program took place in the 70's and the reports about the success of the original program appear to be a little negative. It would be interesting to see a more recent study about the new Beyond Scared Straight program currently airing. The original series from Rahway State Prison in New Jersey, and the studies shown were.. The idea for dealing with youthful offending that became known as "Scared Straight" first came to light in 1976, when it was known as the Juvenile Awareness Project. It was then that a group of hardened prison inmates at New Jersey's Rahway State Prison, called the Lifers Group, began their project to make juveniles aware of what being in prison is like. Over several years in the mid-1970s.

Table 4.1 shows the results from seven experimental studies of Scared Straight programs. As you can see, beginning in 1967 in Michigan, there have been a number of studies, none of which showed reductions in recidivism. In fact, the most famous of the programs, New Jersey's, led to a 30% increase in recidivism for the youths who participated.. The film introduced the Rahway program to television viewers and promoted the 'scared straight' approach, suggesting that 80 to 90 percent of the youths who participated were discouraged from pursuing criminal careers.