Currently, halfway houses are only a kind of flexible option in the judicial process. In the majority of cases, the decision to use one comes from the individual judge. Hsieh feels that the halfway house system should be for-mally incorporated into the "Law for Handling Youth Crimes," which would give it formal status and have it become a link in the judicial chain.
目前中途之家在司法處理過程中，只能算是一種彈性做法，多由法官個人選擇運用，謝啟大認為應該把它正式列入「少年事件處理法」中，讓它得以「正名」，成為司法體制中的一環。