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Youth Offenders
1. How do youth offenders differ from adult offenders?
  1. Crimes
  2. Treatment
2. Do youth offenders require a different approach in terms of rehabilitation?
3. Are youth offenders more likely to re-offend and eventually be charged as an adult?
4. Is there one prevelant factor that clearly pushes youth towards crime?
  1. Childhood?
  2. Education?
5. Do youth offenders participate in different programs?
6. How do the youth facilities differ from normal prisons?
Psychological Theories of Crime
1. How do psychologists understand or explain crime?
2. What are the three theories and how do they help in explaining or predicting criminal behaviour?
  1. Biological, Psychological, Sociological
3. What research is still taking place around this topic?
4. How do these theories relate directly to real life?
5. How are these theories helping to design programs for the rehabilitation of criminals?
Programs for Rehabilitation
1. What programs are in place in prisons?
2. Are these programs successful in reducing rates of reoffending?
  1. How is this known?
3. What is the difference between past, present and potential future programs for rehabilitation within prisons?
4. How are the programs invented?
  1. Who?
  2. Where?
  3. What?
5. How are the prisoners assigned to programs?
6. Are the programs compulsory?
7. Costs?
8. Locations?
9. What topics are the programs directed around?
  1. Directly related?
  2. Broad?
Factors of Crime
1. Mental Illness
2. Childhood
3. Education
4. Money
5. Drinking / Drug Abuse
6. How are these factors understood and focused on when rehabilitating criminals?
7. How do they each lead a person to crime?

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