When a teen is severely delinquent and troubled, parents maytake drastic measures to try to get their teen back on the rightpath. For some parents, that measure is a camp for troubled teens,generally known as a boot camp. Originally, the name boot campreferred exclusively to military recruit training camps run by theUnited States Marines Corps. Private institutions generally runboot camps for troubled teens in the United States. These bootcamps are based on shock incarceration – short-term imprisonment –and military techniques. Boot camps claim that through theirprograms, they can scare of shock kids back onto the straight andnarrow path. Generally, parents, not judges, are the ones whodecide to send their teens to these camps. The teens do not have achoice in the matter – a parent can ove