PEER INFLUENCE IN JUVENILE CORRECTIONAL INSTITUTIONS

同伴群体对学习动机影响的纵向现场实验， 态度和行为的罪犯，而他们在矫正 机构和他们被释放后。 将囚犯的理论 社会组织和小群体的社会心理影响力 发现强度、方向（相对于矫正的 目标）和同伴群体对机构化青年的影响力。 预计一些调查结果与标准文献中的报告不同， 集团的影响，因为事实上，非自愿性固有的矫正 机构职能体系 研究了三个机构的小型住宅青年团体， 利用治疗方案的变体，特别设计用于招募同行 影响力，以实现个人改革。 利用自然的 不同群体之间的差异和给予的治疗，以及 随机性，自然发生在分配青年到团体，以创造 准实验研究设计。 采用问卷调查、访谈、 档案和观察措施。 旨在扩大社会心理 了解群体对价值观的影响程度（如群体的忠诚度 会员资格），迄今为止，研究人员无法获得;并改善 矫正工作的有效性。

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.