MARINE BOOT CAMP

Mess and maintenance at a marine boot camp



Mess and maintenance at a marine boot camp

Military-style control and esteem may work as penalty at juvenile boot bivouacs, but it has not been productive as rehabilitation (Sullivan, 1997). Five years before, answering to a boost in grave juvenile misdeed, the state of Maryland started one of the nation's biggest boot bivouac programs for teenage criminals. The program, called the Leadership Challenge, rapidly became the form for other states.

The Maryland know-how, simultaneously with difficulties in other states, has currently directed some states to close their boot bivouacs and even ...