Editorial

Welcome to the second edition of PROBATION junior Journal, volume I.

Based on day to day observations and research we delve into new debates regarding
the penal system.
With this new edition, we remain confident that young people have strong
and formative ideas without interdisciplinary limits and look to challenge current
trends by bringing forth questions and creative mitigation strategies to better our
existing system. We engage now in analyzing the extremely interesting subjects
such as social work, psychology, sociology, law, and theology, all diverse in their
own respects but also complementary to each other.
The penitentiary for many exists as a mesmerizing and repulsive world.
However, it remains in a constant state of permanent state of chaos. The corrections
system combines the existence of crime, failure, pathology, stress, despair, and
helplessness; all of which serve as the catalyst for pandemonium.
The discussion of the penal system in the first edition of PROBATION
Junior we move to the concept of liberty, recidivism in drug consumption, the lives
of imprisoned persons, the root causes of criminal behavior in adolescents, and
human rights.
As a person entrusted with freedom, one has legal liability before the law
and the society, if he/she judgment lends to malicious activities and/or irrational
behavior. Freedom is the symphony and social equilibrium existent in a human
being. This freedom is shown in our effort to not alter the lifestyle choices of others.
The recidivism in drugs consumption is a part of the processes of which the
addicted person is riding on the hope of abandoning his/her habit or to get in control
of his/her drug addiction. We will follow in this research to develop a restricted

evaluation in terms of need for services in the case of ex drug users, after their
release from prison.
Asylums, one of the outstanding books by sociologist Erving Goffman
provides a comprehensive view on the lives of imprisoned persons, detailing
aspects which, although known by many, are subjects very difficult to grasp.
Goffman awakens the reader's interest in how the various institutions have their
own value systems, their own culture, and practice their own universe.
To highlight causes and conditions that generate and promote the criminal
behavior in minors is another subject we attempt to understand in this edition; by
interviewing 40 subjects from the Prison of Juvenile and Young in Tichileti.
Finally but not of least importance, we will discuss the notion of human
rights, which permits individuals to develop his own efficient qualities.
We strongly believe that these themes besides being subjects of continual
debate are consistent with the development of a better penal system in the future.

The Redaction Team