o Social and economic opportunities, including special school, training, and job programs. These are especially critical for older gang members who are not in school but may be ready to leave the gang or decrease participation in criminal gang activity for many reasons, including maturation and the need to provide for family.
o Social intervention (especially youth outreach and work with street gangs directed toward mainstreaming youth).
o Gang suppression (formal and informal social control procedures of the justice systems and community agencies and groups). Community-based agencies and local groups must collaborate with juvenile and criminal justice agencies in surveillance and sharing of information under conditions that protect the community and the civil liberties of youth.
o Organizational change and development (the appropriate organization and integration of the above strategies and potential reallocation of resources among involved agencies).
o Any approach must be guided by concern not only for safeguarding the community against youth gang activities but for providing support and supervision to present and potential gang members in a way that contributes to their pro-social development.
(Source: James H. Burch II and Betty M. Chemers. (1997). A Comprehensive Response to America’s Youth Gang Problem. http://www.ncjrs.gov/pdffiles/fs-9640.pdf. )
The primary procedures of assistance to the youth through educational implications of both social and environmental values to their system shall indeed help them evaluate their acts as to how these particular motivated acts are supposed to affect them as individuals who are aiming for maturity as people who intend to know the right values from the wrong ones.
Reeducating the Young Ones
There were different researches that have been studied to be able to help the young offenders return to their senses and end their criminal movements as well as prevent them from repeating the mistaken acts that they once committed against the law and against their fellowmen at that case. The following discussions shall introduce three major procedures of reeducating adolescents who have offended the law. These discussions shall be treated in a way that the benefits that the said reeducating procedures shall be given centralized focus.
Teaching Values through the Utilization
of the Social Learning Theory
