This particular field can be rewarding because you are making a difference in someone's life, as well as, providing a beneficial service to society. However, the pay does not always compensate for the hard, stressful work and long hours.
In 1983, the biggest problem in schools was noise making and chewing gum in class, now its guns and drugs. Resources for re-habilitation are dwindling and unfortunately this is the trend around the globe. I think there is much potential in that career.
This career requires juveniles committing crime. The baby boomlet of the last 1990s and through 2007 provides the demographic population for several more decades. Being raised by a single mother increases the risk that a youngster will commit a crime and unwed motherhood has risen steadily, there is likely to be a rise in juvenile crime. Yes, there is potential.