Boot Camp (correctional)
Boot camps can be governmental being part of the correctional and penal system of some countries, but predominantly in the United States. Modeled after military recruit training camps, these programs are based on shock incarceration grounded on military techniques. Private boot camps, using generally the same methods, offer programs as "quick-fix solutions" for the children of parents who hope to regain lost control of their teens or who desire behavior modification. The aggressive training used has resulted in deaths in a variety of circumstances.
Read more about Boot Camp (correctional): Criticisms, Alternatives
Other articles related to "boot":
... Bootcamps claim to remove children "from environments filled with negative influences and triggering events that produce self-defeating, reckless or self-destructive ... use this method while avoiding all or some of the controversial methods of bootcamps, and they claim lower recidivism ...
Famous quotes containing the words boot and/or camp:
“The best quality tea must have creases like the leathern boot of Tartar horsemen, curl like the dewlap of a mighty bullock, unfold like a mist rising out of a ravine, gleam like a lake touched by a zephyr, and be wet and soft like a fine earth newly swept by rain.”
—Lu Yu (d. 804)
“Some of the taverns on this road, which were particularly dirty, were plainly in a transition state from the camp to the house.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)