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Family-focused Counseling: A New Dimension in Probation
(Sage Publications, 1968)
Probation and child welfare workers are looking for ways to serve their clients more effectively and efficiently. New research on family diagnosis and treatment, role theory, and crisis theory can be helpful. However, not ...
Some Dangers in Parole Prediction
(Sage Publications, 1962)
As prediction techniques are perfected and increasingly used, certain incongruities existing between parole theory and parole prediction may have detrimental effects on parole itself. The inadequacies of substandard parole ...
Organization as a Key to Police Effectiveness
(Sage Publications, 1966)
Citing evidence on intercity differences in crime rates, as well as differences in rates of increase for several kinds of crime, this paper argues that police departments differ in their effectiveness. The key to an ...
Book Reviews : The Unruly School, Robert J. Rubel. Pp. 195. Lexington, Mass., D. C. Heath, 1977. $17
(Sage Publications, 1978)
Gender Issues in Juvenile Justice
(Sage Publications, 1983)
The federal JJDP legislation has had a differential impact on the pattern of admission of females and males to detention facilities and training schools, and also on the rate of admission relative to the total available ...
Group Treatment Strategies in Juvenile Correctional Programs
(Sage Publications, 1965)
Direct and indirect approaches to group intervention recently utilized by juvenile correctional agencies, including closed in stitutions, minimum security or work camps, courts, and de tached worker and street-gang programs ...
Treating the Sex Offender
(Sage Publications, 1974)
The plight of the convicted sex offender and his chances for treatment are discussed in the light of public opinion and psy chiatric knowledge. Popular myths regarding sex offenders are found to be shared by legislators ...
Custody and Treatment in Juvenile Institutions
(Sage Publications, 1964)
Correctional institutions have two purposes—custody and rehabilitation. This paper attempts to analyze the organizational patterns and problems of juvenile correctional institutions in regard to their goals. The findings ...