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PEOPLE OR PAPERWORK An Analysis of Influences upon Juvenile Court Personnel
In: Criminology: the official publication of the American Society of Criminology, Band 13, Heft 4, S. 521-534
ISSN: 1745-9125
Abstract Probation officers and other juvenile court staff complain that paperwork limits the time spent working directly with youth. The alleged effect of paperwork is compared with that of interpersonal influence resulting from time spent talking with youth about their problems. Multiple regression of data from a juvenile court staff indicated that the time spent on paperwork has no independent effect. This group's paperwork complaints are ideological. But interpersonal influences do have considerable impact.
Perceived Expectations and Role Behavior of Socialization Agents: the Case of the School Counselor and SES Areas
In: The sociological quarterly: TSQ, Band 18, Heft 3, S. 384-398
ISSN: 1533-8525
Political Radicalization as a Communication Process
In: Communication research, Band 1, Heft 3, S. 243-263
ISSN: 1552-3810
Based on data taken from 412 adult education students in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, this research attempts to show that attitudes toward French Canadian Separatism by the sample members can be accounted for by differentiaf communication processes. Results show that attitudes held by sample members are well explained (R2 = .64) by a weighted average of the information they received from interpersonal and media sources. The resultant attitude shows substantial effects on behaviors related to separatism for the same respondents.
Workers Handling Errant Youth: A Field Experiment on Effects of In-Service Training
In: Evaluation Quarterly, Band 3, Heft 3, S. 347-363
Although vouth workers frequently undergo in-service training, methodological shortcomings in evaluations of these programs often obscure the effects. This article reports on a field experiment that randomly assigned school counselors, juvenile court staff, and a variety of other youth workers to a training (experimental) or control group. Results support five of eight hypotheses comparing trainees with controls in terms of (1) tech niques such as reinforcement and (2) certain attributes of interpersonal relations with the youths in caseloads as well as with these youths' parents and friends. Shortcomings in the content of the training program appear responsible for inconclusive results on one hypothesis and lack of verification of two others.