In addition to the above statute, it is well established that the main purpose of the Act is not to punish, but to correct and to rehabilitate. Delinquency proceedings are protective rather than punitive in nature. Therefore, the Act should be construed in a way that authorizes the reasonable exercise of the juvenile court's discretion to achieve those goals. Absent an abuse of discretion, the trial court's determination will not be reversed by this court. Uniting the purpose of the Juvenile Court Act with the Act's probation provisions, we conclude that the conditions of juvenile probation must be reasonably related to the juvenile's rehabilitation.
Probation simultaneously serves as punishment and rehabilitation.
Protection of the public from the type of conduct that led to a defendant's conviction is one of the goals of probation. To be reasonable, a condition of probation must not be overly broad when viewed in the light of the desired goal or the means to that end. There are no cases in Illinois that involve barring a juvenile from a certain geographic area as a condition of probation. However, there are two cases that involve adult probationers being barred from certain geographical areas as a condition of probation. 186 Ill. App.