PERSONALITY ADJUSTMENT AND FAMILY SURROGATES OF THE YOUTHFUL OFFENDER

• NCJ Number: 18887
• Author(s): G R SUMPTER
• Date Published: 1967
• Length: 49 pages
• Sale Source: UMI Dissertation Services; National Institute of Justice/
• Publication Type: Thesis/Dissertation
• Language: English
• Country: United States of America
• Note: DISSERTATION - FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY

Annotation

EXAMINES RELATIONSHIP AMONG CRIMINAL INVOLVEMENT AND FACTORS SUCH AS PERSONALITY ADJUSTMENT, FAMILY INTERACTION, PARENTAL AND/OR FAMILY SURROGATES.

Abstract

FOUR HYPOTHESES WERE EXAMINED, INCLUDING THAT THERE IS NO SIGNIFICANT DIFFERENCE BETWEEN PERSONAL ADJUSTMENT AND FAMILY INTERACTION AND THAT THERE IS NO SIGNIFICANT DIFFERENCE BETWEEN PERSONALITY ADJUSTMENT AND CRIMINAL INVOLVEMENT. IN ORDER TO TEST THE HYPOTHESES A QUESTIONNAIRE WAS CONSTRUCTED REQUESTING BIOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION, PERSONALITY INFORMATION, SOCIAL FACTORS, EVALUATION AND IDENTIFICATION OF FAMILY SURROGATES, AND INFORMATION ON CRIMINAL INVOLVEMENT. THE SAMPLE TO WHOM THE QUESTIONNAIRE WAS ADMINISTERED WAS DRAWN FROM INMATES INCARCERATED IN APPALACHEE CORRECTIONAL INSTITUTION IN FLORIDA. TWO PERTINENT FINDINGS OF THE STUDY WERE THAT CERTAIN PERSONALITY TYPES ARE MORE LIKELY TO PARTICIPATE IN CRIMINAL BEHAVIOR, NO ONE FACTOR DEMONSTRATED A STRONG PREDISPOSITION TO CRIMINALITY AND THAT THERE IS NO CLEAR INDICATION THAT THE FAMILY INTERACTION ALONE IS SIGNIFICANTLY RELATED TO CRIMINALITY.