Defining a therapeutic selfhood for delinquent youth: A covert participant observation of a juvenile correction facility

Boot camps and traditional correctional

Boot camps and traditional correctional facilities for juveniles A comparison of the participants, daily activities, and environments

✍ Angela R Gover; Doris Layton MacKenzie; Gaylene J Styve 📂 Article 📅 2000 🏛 Elsevier Science 🌐 English ⚖ 113 KB

The environments of twenty-seven boot camps and twenty-two traditional facilities were examined in a national study of juvenile correctional facilities. Surveys with administrators and data from institutional files indicated that juveniles in the boot camps had less serious offending histories than