GROUP METHODS IN CRIMINOLOGY

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  • VERNON FOX Author

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https://doi.org/10.12926/51spyj06

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CRIMINOLOGY

Abstract

The high rate of failure among juvenile and adult offenders exposed to correctional facilities and institutions demands that more effective treatment procedures be developed. While recidivism rates for juvenile institutions are most difficult to compile, the U.S. Bureau of Prisons, the Gluecks' studies, and confidential conversations with several superintendents of juvenile institutions suggest that of five youths who arrive at the institutions, two will return, two will go to another institution, and only one of the original five youths never comes into conflict with the law again. Among adult offenders, 63 to 67 per cent of all new prisoners arriving in federal and state prisons each year have been in prison before.

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2025-01-06

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Vol. 15 No. 1 (1962): Group Psychotherapy, Psychodrama, and Sociometry

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