Boot camps for young offenders are back the psychological evidence they dont work never went away [Video]

THREE KEY FACTS:

The Government is reintroducing boot camps to crack down on serious youth offenders, with the first due to start by the middle of this year.
The first pilot camp will feature both a military-style component and a “rehabilitative and trauma-informed care approach”.
New Zealand has a 50-year track record with military-style boot camps for unruly youths, from“corrective training” camps of the 1980s and 1990s. By 1997, the reconviction rate for participants was 92 per cent and the programme was scrapped a few years later.

Simon Davies is a lecturer in Forensic Psychology; Clare-Ann Fortune, senior lecturer in Clinical Forensic Psychology, Karen Salmon, Professor of Psychology, Linda Fatialofa, PhD Candidate in Forensic Psychology. All are based at Victoria University.

OPINION

“Boot camps” for young people who commit serious offending are coming back. The coalition Government has promised to pilot “military-style academies” by the middle of the year – despite a wealth of international and New Zealand evidence boot camps do not reduce reoffending.

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