OBJECTIVE COMPARISON OF PAROLE SUCCESSES AND FAILURES IN TERMS OF THEIR HISTORY AND PERSONALITY ADJUSTMENT

• NCJ Number: 19213
• Author(s): J L MACK
• Date Published: 1967
• Length: 119 pages
• Sale Source: UMI Dissertation Services
• Publication Type: Report (Study/Research)
• Language: English
• Country: United States of America

Annotation

THIS STUDY ANALYZED ALL JUVENILE BOYS FROM HENNEPIN AND RAMSEY COUNTIES (MN) RELEASED ON PAROLE FROM THE STATE TRAINING SCHOOL AT RED WING, MINNESOTA, BETWEEN JANUARY 1 AND JULY 31, 1966.

Abstract

FROM SIX TO THIRTEEN MONTHS FOLLOWING THEIR RELEASE, 159 PAROLEES WERE CLASSIFIED RECIDIVIST OR NON-RECIDIVIST ON THE BASIS OF AGGRESSIVE ACTING OUT BEHAVIOR AND THE SUBJECT'S PAROLE STATUS. EACH PAROLEE WAS RATED ON A PROBLEM CHECKLIST BY HIS PAROLE AGENT. SEVENTY-EIGHT SUBJECTS COMPLETED THE M-B HISTORY RECORD, AND 156 SUBJECTS WERE ANALYZED ACCORDING TO DATA FROM THE MINNESOTA MULTIPHASIC PERSONALITY INVENTORY (MMPI). IT WAS PREDICTED THAT RECIDIVISTS WOULD SCORE HIGHER ON M-B FACTORS RELATED TO FAMILY INSUFFICIENCY, MALADJUSTED SCHOOL HISTORY, AND ADOLESCENT MORAL REBELLION AND LOWER ON MIDDLE CLASS STANDARDS AND FAMILY STABILITY. THE M-B FACTORS WERE GENERALLY LACKING IN RELIABILITY. GROUPS TENDED TO DIFFER IN THE PREDICTED DIRECTIONS NOT SIGNIFICANTLY. THERE WAS LITTLE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN THE GROUPS IN ALL MMPI COMPARISONS. THE APPENDIX CONTAINS A COPY OF THE PROBLEM CHECKLIST AND THE M-B HISTORY RECORD AND RESULTS OF THE MMPI. A BIBLIOGRAPHY IS ALSO PROVIDED. (AUTHOR ABSTRACT MODIFIED)