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Makale Özeti:
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According to statistics from the Department of
Social Welfare (2015), a total of 4669 children between the ages
of 10-21 were involved in crimes such as property-related
criminal cases, minor offence act, infringement of supervision
terms, drugs, gambling, weapons or firearms, traffic offences,
escaping from approved schools and others. Various efforts
have been put in to reduce the rate of involvement in crime
amongst youths. However, statistics from the Department of
Social Welfare showed that the number of children involved in
crime was still very high – from 2009 to 2015, there were 35,300
children, or an average of 5042 children a year, involved in
crime. A lot of investments have gone into funding the cost for
treatment and for institutions to resolve children criminal cases,
but till today, we have not seen satisfactory results in reducing
children’s involvement in crimes, in fact, the number of children
involved in crimes has gone up as compared to the past. Despite
the many measures taken to tackle this issue, what we are facing
right now is the failure to break the vicious cycle when these
children return to a troubled environment. For three decades,
studies have shown that multisystemic therapy, which places
serious juvenile offenders in the community with intensive
intervention, has a significant effect in reducing their
involvement in heavy crimes. According to Borduin et al. (1995),
groups of delinquent youths were treated with multisystemic
therapy or individual therapy after four years, and as a result,
the youths who underwent the multisystemic therapy recorded
significantly lower recurrence rate in perpetrating crimes.
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