Lessons From a Juvenile Training School: Survival and Growth

This article examines the lessons learned by youths confined to a maximum-security juvenile correctional facility. Using data from an ethnographic study of a cottage of violent offenders in one state’s end-of-the-line training school, the author describes the lessons the institution and its staff me...

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Published in:Journal of adolescent research 2006-01, Vol.21 (1), p.7-26
Main Author: Inderbitzin, Michelle
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Correctional Education
Correctional Institutions
Delinquency
Ethnography
Imprisonment
Juvenile Correctional Institutions
Juvenile Offenders
Prisoners
Training
Youth
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Summary:This article examines the lessons learned by youths confined to a maximum-security juvenile correctional facility. Using data from an ethnographic study of a cottage of violent offenders in one state’s end-of-the-line training school, the author describes the lessons the institution and its staff members hoped to teach the young people in their care and the informal but vital lessons the inmates indicated they had learned during their incarceration. The continued viability of training schools as a response to serious and violent juvenile offenders is analyzed and discussed.
ISSN:0743-5584
1552-6895
DOI:10.1177/0743558405283042