Learning through the Normative Culture
Normative Culture learning procedures intend to help students [or young offenders in this case] to realize the wrong doings that they have committed against their fellowmen. Particularly, the said procedure of realization assists the young ones in understanding what they have done and be able to create the possibility of changing their ways to becoming rightful in deciding upon what is right and what is not again. “Normative culture uses peer pressure in a positive way to change children’s behavior. Adults remain in charge, but the youths are taught ways to respectfully guide others to follow the rules and behave appropriately” (KNC, Internet).
In this particular procedure, the young ones are taught to become responsible for their acts as they are clearly assisted on how to see the consequences of certain acts. Hence, after being educated in this particular procedure, the students, or the young offenders, would have a deeper understanding of the consequences of their decisions primarily assisting them in becoming more cautious with the acts that they commit.
Juvenile Justice and Goldstein Cognitive Behavioral Theories
The Goldstein theory of learning suggests that the young generation observes deeper and understands clearer once they are assisted to see the situation in other’s perspective. The fact that the young delinquents are not actually accustomed to doing what is bad; it is believed that helping them through seeing the gravity of what they have done while explaining to them that they could have done better by choosing a different way of meeting what they want to accomplish, they are assisted in realizing that there are other options available for them to take as a positive procedure of getting to what they actually wanted.
According to Eric Jensen’s “Enriching the Brain: How to Maximize Every Learner’s Potential” (2006), the Goldstein Cognitive behavioral theories could be used to help the young offenders realize the consequences of what they have done through the effective application of psychological assessment and observation among the students. Their behavioral pattern with regards the situation that they are usually involved with at times shape the values that they have towards the different crime and other law offenses that they have once committed. Helping them realize the impact of what they have done would then assist them in realizing the importance of not committing the same crimes again.
