Youth in Colleges and in Corrections: Institutional Influences.

Newcomb, Theodore M.

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ERIC Number: EJ176652

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Publication Date: 1978

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Youth in Colleges and in Corrections: Institutional Influences

Newcomb, Theodore M.

American Psychologist, 33, 2, 114-24, Feb 78

Findings concerning characteristics of recently arrived youth and of longtimers in colleges and in correctional institutions are compared. It is noted that coercion both on entering a correctional institution and thereafter, has much to do with the nature and degree of peer influence therin. (Author/AM)

Descriptors: Attitude Change, College Students, Environmental Influences, Group Experience, Individual Characteristics, Institutional Environment, Institutionalized Persons, Prisoners, Socialization

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