| Personality and Peer Influence in Juvenile Corrections (Contributions in Criminology and Penology) |  | Authors: Martin Gold, D. Wayne Osgood
Publisher: Greenwood Press
Category: Book
Buy Used: $369.99
Sales Rank: 3733506
Media: Hardcover
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 256
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.3
Dimensions (in): 9.8 x 6.5 x 1
ISBN: 0313279705
Dewey Decimal Number: 364.36019
EAN: 9780313279706
ASIN: 0313279705
Publication Date: September 30, 1992
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Condition: Fast Shipping! 1992 Greenwood Press Edition; Hardcover; Ex-library copy; Contains normal library stamps and stickers; No dustjacket; Text contains underlines; One dog earred page; Not remainder
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This is an innovative study of 300 delinquent boys in a medium security institution and after their release. This longitudinal field experiment shows how peers affect the rehabilitation of different group members, how staff use those influences to lead to prosocial change after release from the institution, and how different behavior, values, and feelings improved. This well-designed research has broad implications for use in graduate courses in sociology, criminology and penology, social and personality psychology, and group dynamics. The book is equally useful to administrators and policymakers dealing with delinquents and individuals with behavior problems. The field experiment was devised with both practical and theoretical purposes in mind, to develop corrective programs for delinquent youth and to test social science hypotheses in the context of a longitudinal experimental research design. The study presents a typology of delinquent boys that guides differential treatment, focuses on peer group and staff influences, and identifies factors in residential treatment and in the open community that facilitate prosocial reentry. The findings test hypotheses about group and staff impact on anti-social behavior within the institution and after release.
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