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Conflict about release: Environmental and personal correlates among institutionalized delinquents
Author(s) -
Grisso J. Thomas
Publication year - 1975
Publication title -
journal of community psychology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.585
H-Index - 86
eISSN - 1520-6629
pISSN - 0090-4392
DOI - 10.1002/1520-6629(197510)3:4<396::aid-jcop2290030410>3.0.co;2-z
Subject(s) - truancy , pessimism , institutionalisation , psychology , juvenile delinquency , developmental psychology , dependency (uml) , social psychology , clinical psychology , psychiatry , criminology , philosophy , epistemology , systems engineering , engineering
Among institutionalized delinquent males, low scores on a questionnaire index of desire for release were related significantly to less stable family relationships (parent absent from home, parental abuse/rejection), more pessimistic evaluations of home by subjects, and a greater likelihood of previous institutionalization and of truancy/runaway offenses. The results suggest the importance of extrainstitutional variables for understanding the delinquent's degree of motivation for release, and provide some direction for further studies of „institutional dependency” among delinquents.