Introduction Most crimes that are committed by teenagers are akin to those committed by adults. However, the punishment that the teens face is usually lenient. Modern juvenile punishment is based on punitive ideals and the need to foster health, responsive, and accountable behaviors among the youths. Decreasing the severity of punishment, as it is put in most modern juvenile punishment approaches, helps deter crime and offer the opportunity for the adoption of other rehabilitation strategies (Aaron & Dallaire, 2010; Levitt, 1998). Juvenile Rehabilitation Harsh punishment for juveniles, such as the death penalty, chopping off of body parts, life imprisonment, and banishment from the society, is no longer undertaken in the modern world. According to Aaron and Dallaire (2010), these approaches are no longer viable means of rehabilitating juveniles. The concept children’s rights were unheard while the living standards made the society very cruel to its young members. In the past, situation was worsened as people did not get the fact that juveniles were human beings whose rights and privileges needed to be upheld. According to Mac-Ikimenjima (2008), modern punishment include timeout, compulsory leave from an activity, positive criticism, and being given extra-work to do among others. The goal of such punishment approaches to enhance responsibility, accountability, and undertaking of the committed wrong and the need to reform. Walcott (2011) believed delinquency can best be reduced by use of effective communication, mentorship programs, and the use of guiding and counseling sessions. Walcott (2011) adds that factors that enhance delinquency should keenly be identified, keenly assessed, and addressed in an amicable manner hence enabling the rehabilitation process to be made more reliable and cost effective. Juvenile justice systems help put in place reliable policies and operational mechanisms upon which legal provisions are adhered to in order to enhance a socially coherent society. The nature of punishment that modern youths are exposed to has greatly improved. To date, juveniles are mainly exposed to probation instead of corporal punishment. The option of “out-of-home” rehabilitation programs is a very crucial rehabilitation strategy as it fosters efficiency and realistic outcome of the rehabilitation process by inculcating self-discipline in the youths (Mac-Ikimenjima, 2008; Aaron & Dallaire, 2010) According to Walcott (2011), the respect and maturity levels envisaged by “timeout generation” are lower than those portrayed by the “spanking generation”. Most parents use timeouts as a means of distancing themselves from their role of being disciplinarians, caretakers, and counselors to their children (Mac-Ikimenjima, 2008). In Finland, Germany, India, and many Latin America and African nations, juvenile punishment is not closely monitored. Modern juvenile punishment is more objective, reasonable, and focused on ending delinquencies. However, rehabilitation approaches through change in the manner in which juveniles are punished does not advance the success of various juvenile rehabilitation mechanisms since juveniles tend to develop resistance to change (Mac-Ikimenjima, 2008). This argument is based on the fact that juvenile delinquency and punishment do not always transform a person’s behavior.