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A Halfway-House Program for Delinquents
(Sage Publications, 1967)
State-administered halfway houses for delinquents were estab lished in Michigan at a time when comprehensive policy changes encouraged experiments and research in rehabilitation, includ ing a search for alternatives to ...
Patterns of Correction
(Sage Publications, 1967)
The state's involvement in correction has expanded recently from administration of one or more prisons to responsibility for several types of institutions and for supervision of adults—and, in some states, juveniles—released ...
Effects of Group Counseling
(Sage Publications, 1965)
Staff members of the Lucas County (Toledo, Ohio) Family Court Center became concerned because it seemed that while diagnosis of delinquent behavior was leaning toward an indi vidualized, differential technique, treatment ...
The Effectiveness of Correctional Programs
(Sage Publications, 1971)
Justifications for the development of special correctional pro grams and for the choice of sentencing disposition for an individual offender are frequently based on claims of greater rehabilitative efficacy. While considerable ...
Police Responses to a Course in Psychology
(Sage Publications, 1970)
Although much police activity involves dealing with human behavior and mental health, policemen typically receive little training in behavioral science concepts and techniques. Recent events have dramatized the need for ...
Role Problems of Offenders and Correctional Workers
(Sage Publications, 1966)
This paper analyzes selected problems of offenders and work ers in correction as special cases of more general problems of role. The research findings, theory, and related concepts of social role are drawn upon for a better ...