Reformatory Inmates Research Articles

소년원생의 공감능력 향상을 위한 차문화치료 프로그램

This study intends to develop a tea-culture therapy program aimed at improving empathy ability of juvenile reformatory inmates and preventing their recidivism.
 Recently, due to the rapid change of our society such as nuclear family, increase in divorce rate, weakened function of family, deficiency of care received at the time of youth, etc, juvenile crimes are increasing. One of the main characteristics of juvenile
 inmates is a lack of empathic ability, which adversely affects social and emotional development and is the cause of delinquency behavior. Therefore, in order to prevent recommitting crimes of juvenile inmates, effective tea-culture therapy program needs to be developed to improve their empathic ability. The program consists of a total of 8 sessions twice a week and each session consists of 90 minutes(10 minutes for introduction, 70 minutes for intervention activity, and 10 minutes for summary and sharing thoughts). The program was conducted at a juvenile training school in P city. The empathic ability average score of juvenile inmates before participation in the program is 75.1 (SD 6.39), and after participation in the program, the average score of empathic ability is indicated as 77.4 (SD 5.52). This shows that there was a significant difference in the evaluation level of empathic ability between before and after the participation(Z = -4.271 **, P = .002). When comparing the scores by subdivision area of empathy, the viewpoint score is pretest average score 20.8 (SD 2.25) and posttest average score 21.4 (SD 1.90) showing statistical significancy(Z = -2.714 *, P =. 024 ), The imagination score is pretest 22.8 (SD 1.93) and posttest 23.2 (SD 1.55) showing statistical significancy(Z = -2.449 *, P = .037). The empathic interest score is pretest 16.7 (SD 1.25). and posttest 17.5 (SD 1.27) showing statistical significancy(Z = -4.000 **, P = .003). The personal suffering score is pretest 14.8 (SD 2.25) and posttest 15.3 (SD 2.0) showing statistical significancy(Z = -3.000 *, P = .015). In conclusion, we found that the emp athic ability of juvenile inmates participated in the tea-culture therapy program was improved more than before participation in the program. Thus, we hope that the tea-culture therapy program is applied for general juveniles as well as juvenile inmates and delinquents.

Relationships among Social Support, Self-esteem and Independent living skills of Juvenile Reformatory Inmates’

Relationships among Social Support, Self-esteem and Independent living skills of Juvenile Reformatory Inmates’

Differentiating violent and nonviolent opiate-addicted reformatory inmates with the MMPI.

Used multivariate profile analysis and stepwise discriminant analysis in an effort to discriminate among four groups of male opiate-addicted reformatory inmates (N = 193) classified according to degree of criminal violence: (1) Bodily Violent (N = 19); (2) Potentially Bodily Violent (N = 25); (3) Materially Violent (N = 113); and (4) Nonviolent (N = 36). Profile analysis indicated that the four groups were very similar; a stepwise discriminant analysis significantly distinguished the Bodily Violent group from each of the other groups, but failed to differentiate successfully among the remaining three groups. A second stepwise discriminant analysis, in which Groups 2, 3 and 4 were combined, produced a significant discriminant function and correctly classified 68.4% of the Bodily Violent group and 75.9% of the combined Nonbodily Violent groups. The MMPI scales that contributed most to the latter prediction of group membership, in relative order of discriminating power, were: F, MA, D, PD, HS, PA and SI.

Social Effectiveness and Problem-Solving Thinking of Reformatory Inmates

This study tested the hypothesis that reformatory inmates who are identified by their peers and institutional officials as misfits and disciplinary problems are less able than more successful inmates to address themselves to hypothetical real-life problem situations and to provide solutions to such problems. Using a means-ends story completion technique, differences were found between the performances of inmates judged by peers as misfits (N = 20), inmates judged by officials as disciplinary problems (N = 20), and inmates judged as successful (N = 20) in utilizing institutional resources. The results of this study indicate that problem-solving cognition can discriminate personal-social adjustment.

Social effectiveness and problem-solving thinking of reformatory inmates

Social effectiveness and problem-solving thinking of reformatory inmates

Correspondence of the MMPI and Mini-Mult among female reformatory inmates

Comparison of the MMPI and Mini-Mult scales yielded significant scale-by-scale correlations. However, the group means were different in 6 of the 11 possible scales, and there was a general tendency for the Mini-Mult to over-estimate MMPI scales. The Mini-Mult proved to be highly ineffective to detect MMPI invalid profiles. In addition, agreement on profile configurations or high points and degree of pathology as indicated by number of significant clinical scale elevations was very poor. The results of this investigation are similar to the findings of Rybolt and Lambert (1975), as well as those of Platt and Scura (1972), and lead one to recommend that the Mini-Mult not be employed as a clonical assessment instrument with incarcerated adult female populations. Its multiple deficits make clinical use hazardous.

Validity of the Mini-Mult with male reformatory inmates.

Validity of the Mini-Mult with male reformatory inmates.

A comparison of reformatory inmates committed directly by the court with those transferred from juvenile institutions.

A comparison of reformatory inmates committed directly by the court with those transferred from juvenile institutions.

Psychopathology and guilt in heterosexual and subgroups of homosexual reformatory inmates.

Psychopathology and guilt in heterosexual and subgroups of homosexual reformatory inmates.

Alienation in Negro and white reformatory inmates.

Alienation in Negro and white reformatory inmates.

THE IES ARROW DOT PERFORMANCE OF DELINQUENTS AND NONDELINQUENTS.

The Arrow Dot test was administered to a volunteer group of 57 reformatory inmates and to a comparison group of 64 college students. It was found that the Impulse score discriminates between these groups. Suggestions are made as to the relationship between the AD I score and the Porteus Maze Q score.

Initial Failures in Rehabilitation among 16,965 Ohio State Reformatory Inmates

Initial Failures in Rehabilitation among 16,965 Ohio State Reformatory Inmates

A Follow-up Study of Minnesota State Reformatory Inmates. A Preliminary Report

A Follow-up Study of Minnesota State Reformatory Inmates. A Preliminary Report

Personality Patterns in Reformatory Inmates

Personality Patterns in Reformatory Inmates

Personality Traits and Conduct of Institutionalized Delinquents

This study attempts to determine the relationship between certain personality traits and conduct of institutionalized delinquents. The Bernreuter Personality Inventory was administered to 152 State Industrial School and 181 State Reformatory inmates in Colorado.2 Although industrial school inmates range from 10 to 18 years of age, only those 15 years and over at the time of testing are used since these are fairly comparable with the high school population. The median for this group is 16 years and 4 months whereas reformatory inmates range from 16 to 25 years with a median of 20 years and one month. The period of institutionalization in the industrial school is dependent upon the conduct of inmates while in the institution. A definite number of credit points must be earned before the inmate is eligible for parole. The average number of credits earned per month was not considered a satisfactory index of conduct, however, since points were awarded for duties not directly related to conduct. For example, a bonus of 25 credits per month was given for kitchen duty. Since a certain number of credits was subtracted for infraction of rules from the number allotted regularly each monththe number depending upon the seriousness of the offense-the average number of credit losses per month has been used as the index for judging misconduct while in the institution. Throughout the study comparisons are made on the basis of the traits arbitrarily termed positive. These traits are emotional stability, extroversion, self-confidence, dominance, self-sufficiency, and sociability. An individual who largely lacks these positive traits will possess to a high degree the corresponding negative traits, namely, emotional instability, introversion, feelings of inferiority, submission, social dependence, and unsociability.

Backgrounds of Prisoners in the Wisconsin State Prison and of Their Brothers

SOCIOLOGISTS, psychologists, and criminologists, have attempted to test the theory that early life-experiences determine the conduct of criminals. Most of these studies, such as those of Healy, Slawson, and Burt, have been concerned with juvenile offenders. Goring in England, Murchison, Stone, Zeleny, Adler and some others in America have given attention to the mental level of the criminal as compared with that of the general population. The Gluecks have made the most careful study on the backgrounds of adults, limited entirely to Massachusetts' reformatory inmates. Control groups with which to compare prisoners in any study have been somewhat difficult to secure. Goring compared his Parkhurst Prison inmates with a control group in free society. On certain points of their study, the Gluecks have used material from the Federal and Massachusetts censuses. In the present study of 472 prisoners in the Wisconsin State Prison the attempt was made to compare the backgrounds of the prisoners' nondelinquent brothers with the backgrounds of the prisoners themselves. So far as I know, this is the first attempt to use brothers as a control group for adult delinquents. This enabled us to hold certain conditions constant while comparing the relative incidence of other factors. In the case of both the prisoners and of the brothers, personal interviews were made, supplemented and corrected by any social history to be found in the records of the institution. Further, in the case of prisoners, the interview was checked as far as possible with the records of social agencies, courts, and persons who knew the prisoner. In the interview with the brother, the attempt was made to get information in the same background categories as in the study of the prisoners. The interviews with the prisoners were held first. Those with the brothers were completed only this year. As we compared each category of prisoner and brother, tests were made in each case to determine the statistical significance of any differences found. It was assumed in this study that the distribution of the factors in the background of both the prisoner and the brother should be identical except in so far as the factors considered are a function of time and change in family conditions. In which case the age differential-the brothers being both younger and older, although on the whole older-might make a difference.

A Survey of the Protozoal and Helminthic Infestation-Rates of the Male Prison and Reformatory Inmates of Beau Bassin Prison, Mauritius

A Survey of the Protozoal and Helminthic Infestation-Rates of the Male Prison and Reformatory Inmates of Beau Bassin Prison, Mauritius