Analysis of a Program of Treatment of Delinquent Boys

Freeman, Howard E.; Weeks, H. Ashley

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“…Through guided group interaction and therapy 83 percent (199 of 240) of all boys completing their period of retraining made a successful readjustment in the community. Freeman and Weeks (14), evaluating this same program, confirmed its success at comparatively low cost.…”

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Chapter VIII: The Delinquent

Kvaraceus¹

1959

Review of Educational Research

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THE LAST six years have shown significant trends in research on delinquent youth. A steady and marked increase in number of court cases was observed. Delinquents were more precisely defined and differentiated as to types. Validations of prediction tools and techniques were carried out. Factors generating delinquent behavior in the culture and its subcultures, as well as in the psyche, received greater emphasis. School-community efforts to prevent and control delinquency were better based on integrated conceptualizations, although evaluations of such efforts appeared crude and subjective. The responsibility of the school as an institution and its potential for helping the predelinquent and delinquent were reviewed and outlined.A number of comprehensive reports summarizing research and program planning for the delinquent were published. Barron (2), viewing the problems of juvenile delinquency in a comprehensive, societal frame of reference, pointed to the need for orderly modification of the social structure and some of the values and functions of American society. Kvaraceus (24) considered the meaning and causes of delinquent behavior and outlined the responsibilities of the major community agencies in a co-ordinated program centered on the schools.Bloch and Flynn (5) presented a critical review of existing research and suggested new approaches to sociological investigation, study, and treatment. Moore (37) enumerated current theoretical positions and drew implications for schools. The NEA Juvenile Delinquency Project (27), using an interdisciplinary approach, attempted to integrate theory as to the meaning and causes of norm-violating behavior. The special problems of the Negro delinquent were summarized in a yearbook edited by Thompson (47).Glueck (18) compiled an encyclopedic volume of eclectic materials, far-ranging in respect to the causes of delinquency, its treatment, and prevention, with special consideration of the legal problems inherent in societal efforts to cope with the delinquent. IncidenceThe U. S. Children's Bureau (48) reported that from 1948 to 1957 the delinquency cases in juvenile courts more than doubled while the estimated child population rose only 27 percent. In 1957, for the ninth consecutive year, delinquency cases increased over the previous year (16 percent; the 545 at UNIV OF PENNSYLVANIA on June 29, 2015 http://rer.aera.net Downloaded from REVIEW OF EDUCATIONAL RESEARCH Vol. XXIX, No. 5

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Chapter VIII: The Delinquent

Kvaraceus¹

1959

Review of Educational Research

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“…Historically, the Highfields program, a milieu therapy experiment which became famous and was widely quoted as an example of "success", tended to demonstrate that a relatively short time in the unrestrictive, supportive environment of the Highfields program produced lower recidivism rates after leaving Highfields. Freeman and Weeks (1956) found that the Highfields group showed a lower recidivism rate (as measured by parole revocation) than a similar group that spent a longer time in the regular reformatory. McCorkle et al (1958) also reported positive findings from Highfields.…”

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Length of Stay and Age affect Recidivism after a Quality Treatment Program

Traynelis-Yurek

Giacobbe

1988

International Journal of Adolescence and Youth

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This study investigated the impact of the factors of age and length of stay on recidivism for two hundred and twenty-eight male juvenile offenders. These boys, who were between the ages of 12 and 18, were residents at Elk Hill Farm in Goochland, Virginia. Elk Hill Farm is a private, non-profit, institution for troubled youth which utilizes a quality, multi-faceted treatment program that includes the following components; a peer group model, an aftercare program, a special education school, wilderness therapy and p£1rent groups. From 1976 to the present these boys have been followed from the time of their release. A Success Rate Index, which divides the number of months that the boys are reincarcerated after leaving the program into the total number of months since leaving that program, was used to analyze this follow-up information. Longer stays and older boys at Elk Hill Farm appeared to lessen the likelihood of later incarceration. Thus it would appear that social and emotional growth, a quality treatment program, length of stay, and age at the time of leaving the program are important factors with regard to future reincarceration.

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A Re‐evaluation of Parole Prediction

Sterne

1966

Criminology

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Analysis of a Program of Treatment of Delinquent Boys

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Chapter VIII: The Delinquent

Chapter VIII: The Delinquent

Length of Stay and Age affect Recidivism after a Quality Treatment Program

A Re‐evaluation of Parole Prediction

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