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Peer reviewedPresbury, Jack H.; Moore, Helen B. – Personnel and Guidance Journal, 1983
Describes a delinquency prevention program where young boys were taken to jail following minor law offenses. With a counselor, they talked to police and prisoners about what it was like to be in jail. None of the 19 children who participated committed any serious crimes in the six years since the program began. (JAC)
Descriptors: Child Development, Correctional Institutions, Delinquency Prevention, Delinquent Rehabilitation
