Institutions for Defective Delinquents

Unrealistic expectations born of defective institutions.

The prevalence of reading and spelling difficulties among inmates of institutions for compulsory care of juvenile delinquents.

Recent studies have focused on reading and writing disabilities among inmates in prisons and at juvenile institutions. Some studies in Sweden have demonstrated that more than half of the delinquents have serious reading difficulties, and for immigrants the situation is even worse. However, these studies have focused on small groups. Furthermore, little attention has been paid to different types...

Health of juvenile delinquents.

Intermediate treatment centres were established in 1969 to enable delinquent adolescents to remain within their communities under supervision, avoiding the imposition of a custodial sentence.' This study compares the physical health of a group of delinquent boys who attended Parkway, an intermediate treatment centre in a deprived inner city area, with that of non-delinquents. Subjects, methods ...

Delinquents and Their Parents

parents involved, the organisation formed for the benefit of parents of delinquents, has a current membership of ninety. One-third live in the London area, where fortnightly meetings are held to discuss common problems. An average of twelve parents attend each meeting, a few regularly, the majority spasmodically. Guests who are professionally concerned with delinquency are invited to some of th...

Behavioral Contracting with Delinquents

Sumnmry--Seventy-nine predelinquent and delinquent youths and their families were offered treatment utilizing contingency contracting as an element of time-constrained (I 5, 45, or 90-day) treatment. An analysis of contracts and their effects yielded the following conclusions: (a) contracts tend to depend more upon the therapist and his interventions than upon features of the client; (b) the ch...