Personality and Peer Influence in Juvenile Corrections

by Martin Gold

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0313279705
• ISBN13: 9780313279706
• Release Date: September 1992
• Publisher: Praeger
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 1.17 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.2"