PEER INFLUENCE IN JUVENILE CORRECTIONAL INSTITUTIONS

同辈群体对动机影响的纵向现场实验， 罪犯在教养期间的态度和行为 机构和在他们被释放之后。汇集了囚犯的理论 社会组织与小群体影响的社会心理 找出力量、方向的决定因素(相对于矫正 目标)和同龄人群体对制度化青年的影响的持久性。 期望一些结果与标准文献中的那些报告不同 群体影响，因为惩教中固有的不受教养的事实 机构。研究三个机构的小型住宿青年团体， 利用专门设计用于招募同龄人的治疗计划的变体 影响实现个人化改革。利用自然的 不同群体之间的差异以及他们所接受的治疗，以及 自然而然地将青年分配到小组中去创造的随机性 准实验研究设计。利用问卷调查、访谈、 档案和观察性措施。旨在延伸社会心理 了解群体对价值观的影响程度(如群体的强制性 成员资格)到目前为止，研究人员无法获得；并改善 惩教工作的有效性。

A longitudinal field experiment of the influence of peer groups on the motives, attitudes, and behavior of delinquents while they are in correctional institutions and after they are released. Brings together theories of inmate social organization and the social psychology of small group influence in order to discover determinants of the strength, direction (relative to correctional goals) and enduringness of peer group influence over institutionalized youth. Expects some findings to differ from those reports in the standard literature on group influences, because of the fact of involuntarism inherent in correctional institutions. Studies small residential youth groups in three institutions that utilize variants of a treatment program especially designed to enlist peer influence to achieve individual reform. Takes advantages of the natural differences from among the groups and the treatments they are given, and of the randomness that occurs naturally in the assignment of youth to groups to create quasi-experimental research design. Utilizes questionnaire, interview, archival, and observational measures. Aims to extend social psychological knowledge of group influence to degrees of values (such as coerciveness of group membership) heretofore unavailable to researchers; and to improve the effectiveness of correctional efforts.