SPECIAL CORRECTIONS PROBLEMS WITH YOUNG PEOPLE (FROM CORRECTIONS AND PREVENTIVE MEASURES - CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS - BAD NAUHEIM, WEST GERMANY, OCTOBER 5-7, 1973 EDITED BY HELMUT E EHRHARDT - SEE NCJ-28320)

• NCJ Number: 28331
• Author(s): A BOEHM
• Date Published: 1974
• Length: 7 pages
• Corporate Author: P O B 1304
• Publication Format: Document
• Publication Type: Report (Study/Research)
• Language: German
• Country: West Germany (Former)

Annotation

THE DIRECTOR OF A WEST GERMAN JUVENILE CORRECTIONAL INSTITUTION ARGUES AGAINST THE INSTITUTIONALIZATION OF 14 AND 15 YEAR OLDS AND PRESENTS STATISTICS AND CASES INDICATING THAT PRISON INCREASES CHANCES OF RECIDIVISM.

Abstract

A 1961-1965 STUDY INDICATED THAT TWO-THIRDS OF THE 14 TO 15 YEAR OLD INMATES RECIDIVATED WHILE HALF OF THE OLDER JUVENILE INMATES DID. --IN GERMAN