Kourtney
Kramer
English
2010
Writing
Proposal
How to Better Young Offenders and Their
Future
Can we trust the young offenders of today
to work for our companies, and our business’?
A recent article by Adrian Bailey, talks about how in
order to help reduce the number of young offenders of reoffending, we need to
give them the opportunity to work. He
states that if we strengthen their speech and language therapy that we can help
better them to be hard workers, and to be more determined.
We
would start by looking at who was at risk of becoming an offender because of
the way they were raised, who they were and the kind of environment they were
raised in. In my very first article they preformed studies on each individual
in a juvenile center and tested him or her to see where their education level
was at, to reinstate their suspicion about speech and language troubles being
the cause of teens that become young offenders.
To better categorize each of them and to also see if they were eligible
to be in a working environment they categorized each individual as eligible for
having speech and language therapy or not being eligible. This is important because then you can better
see who needs the language therapy that the facility can provide for them. Helping them in the future of feeling more
confident and lowering the opportunity of them making the mistake of
reoffending again.
Yes,
you can give them the opportunity to work but they are going to need to be able
to succeed in their new career, to prove that they can work hard and better
themselves. If they do not take the time
to work on their speech impairments then they are going to always have the
struggle of either that being the reason they do not get employed or if they do
get hired the reason they probably wont keep their job. If you are going to be setting them up to be
able to work, they are going to need to be able to fully communicate by
themselves. We want to teach them to be
independent so that they can fend for themselves and work harder as an individual. Considering their background as having
committed a felony, they will probably start towards the bottom of the company
and with helping them improve their speech impairment we can help them climb
the corporate ladder and create a more successful future for them.
There
is however, still the hiring part of this whole situation. Hughes said the tick box
excludes applicants at the very first part of the recruitment process as a
previous criminal conviction was often seen as "shorthand" for bad
employee. "We need to change the
perception," she said. "We need to say that, actually, one in five
adults in the UK has a criminal conviction more serious than a driving offence.
So get real: you're already employing people with criminal convictions whether
you want to admit it or not." The
fact that businesses are already hiring people who have committed felonies yet
we are shutting out teens that have this same background needs to change.
When
you look at it, you want these teens to have a better chance. Anyone with a heart would understand that
every child needs a chance. These teens
are the next generation, the next in line to work in our stores, to run our
businesses and to help mold the next generation. If we don’t give them a fighting chance then
we are setting the future up for failure.
From multiple people you will hear the constant reply that we can fix
the problem before it ever happens. We
could strengthen the communication help in our school programs to prevent their
language disability from holding them back but we need to realize is it’s the child’s
decision. In the end they chose to
except the help or to fall behind with their disability. So no matter how much we strengthen the
educational department we are still going to be dealing with this problem. So we should focus on strengthening all
places that the teen or child can find help.
The
second article mentions how we need to fix the Tick Box in Juvenile Centers so
that more teens have opportunities to get job interviews even though they have
committed a felony. Edwina Hughes,
campaign manager at Business in
the Community, which will next month launch the "ban the box" campaign urging companies to drop the
tick box that demands applicants disclose criminal convictions in recruitment
forms, said the campaign would "ensure people are assessed on their skills
and abilities first, rather than their convictions". The author insists that if you look at the
person and see who they are rather then a piece of paper that states what
they’ve done wrong, you can see them for who they truly are giving more teens a
chance to work and create a better future for themselves. It’s hard because we live in a world that
would be very hard to trust, and the constant worry for how the employee would
represent you and your company. But even
the smallest job and opportunity for them to work is giving them a fighting
chance in this world. I know that a
local grocery store in my hometown takes the time to hire individuals who have
speech and language disabilities to work in the day at a less busy time. Even though they are smaller jobs around the
store they still give these individuals a chance to work for themselves
probably giving them a sense of accomplishment.
This is contradicting though, because we want to also help them improve
their disability so that they can improve from where they are rather than
accepting that they will always have this speech and language disability.
I
very much agree with what this article has to say to some extent. On one hand I think that giving them a hard
working job is going to better them and help them in so many aspects but on the
other hand I don’t know how I would feel if my co worker has committed a felony
or multiple felony’s considering the person.
It is hard though because it is all very depending on the individual and
the situation. Considering where I work
at a bank, the hiring process is more difficult seeing as the bank is trusting
you with their customers’ personal information and dealing with the banks
money. But I do, however, agree that
there are jobs out there that are better suiting. I think that through working their hardest to
prove that they can be trusted that they can be hired and become successful
like those who do not have a speech disability or felony in their past.
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