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Rural Female Delinquents' Adaptation to Institutional Life

NCJ Number
89423
Journal
Juvenile and Family Court Journal Volume: 34 Issue: 1 Dated: (February 1983) Pages: 83-92
Author(s)
J H Larson
Date Published
1983
Length
10 pages
Annotation
This study examines the applicability of the theoretical deprivation/importation (D/I) model to explain rural female adaptation in a coeducational industrial school (a reform school).
Abstract
The results indicate that the model accounts for significant variables in prisonization of rural females. The inclusion of preinstitutional variables suggests a linkage among sibling experience with institutional life, unmet positive expectations arising from group home placement, negative postrelease expectations, and adaptation/prisonization to the reformatory. While the imported experiences are salient influences on prisonization, the institutional-fostered powerlessness does link with prisonization and short/long-term consequence variables. Thus, the D/I model provides researchers with an implicit theory promoting understanding of the similarities among adult, male/female, and urban/rural adaptation to institutional life. A diagram of the D/I model, tables, and 25 notes are included. (Author summary modified)

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