A city confined juvenile detention centre
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2025
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UMT.Lahore
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The effective design and furnishing of juvenile detention centers would influence the mind and the emotions of young offenders to a large extent. This study examines how simple design options can transform punitive environments that are too harsh to supportive and instructive environments that become beneficial to society. The proposed designs are based on valid concepts combining requirements on the provided security and humane treatment. They look at elements of building such as mental impact, people in the designs and the issues with the existing buildings. The literature suggests that better designed juvenile detention centers willresult in a better reasonability and a lower rate of recurrence as well as better rehabilitation. All these change the emphasis to punishment and shift it to primary objectives of juvenile justice systems. Any juvenile who commits antisocial behavior that his or her parents cannot control and yet they face proceedings is called a juvenile delinquent. The problem of juvenile delinquency has not been limited to some parts of the world as both centralized as well as semi-organized developing and industrialized regions have been affected by it. The criminal justice system is given utmost priority in any democratic society because it holds everybody accountable. It is doubtful that in case of instability and insecurity in a society there can be economic growth as citizens are in fear of safety and their property. To many youths currently, the traditional systems that they are supposed to go through in order to transform into families, to schools and then into the labor market are failing. The social connections which formerly helped one in easily fitting into the societal niche are slowly decaying, and life careers are increasingly becoming diverse and ambiguous. Such circumstances contribute to the situation where juvenile delinquency has an increased chance to thrive. It has been said that, no one can stand to say s/he knows a nation without ever being there in its jails, Nelson Mandela himself once said, when addressing a group of people. Who can know better than? The purpose of the prison in Pakistan has long turned out to be the one of pathetic imprisonment, where the criminal is being punished in the crudest way. This has not only led to crime but it has also devastated very many lives. Overall, present-day efforts to treat juvenile delinquency can be defined by the lack of concerted effort along with the lack of the taskoriented and effective social work on both potential victims and future criminals. This way we encourage recidivism and this will be harmful to our society. The current state of affairs in juvenile delinquency as the highly complex and widespread issue is not properly covered by crime prevention programs which are suspicious, to say the least. Thus in this thesis, emphasis has been given to interior and architectural restoration. It aims at coming up with a heath and rehabilitation facility where young people will rehab to ensure that they get back into the society. The thesis proposal aims at putting up a special correctional CENTRE specifically dedicated to dealing with young offenders as there are not many juvenile correctional CENTREs within the Pakistani context. Achievement of the above goal by the researcher is done in various ways i.e. acquisition of a better understanding of juvenile delinquents, their psyche, the reasons why they committed a crime, the purpose of incarceration, therapeutic setting and the formulated design of a rehabilitation CENTRE. The main target here will be to rehabilitate them by providing a caring environment where the thinking of the juveniles can be changed early enough through education, counseling and the supply of needs.