The Relationship of Sociometric Inclusion to Delinquent Behavior in Adolescent Females

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  • ALTON BARBOUR Author

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https://doi.org/10.12926/43t9dr52

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Sociometric

Abstract

Maurine Eckloff and James Hullinger (1986) reported the results of some research that ties the social acceptance of females-their sociometric inclusion or lack of inclusion-to later criminal behavior. The two researchers completing this study spent a combined 6 years employed in the state correctional institutions dealing primarily with young females. At a time when correctional institutions are overcrowded, taxpayers are reluctant to· increase funding for such institutions, and society is desperate to find ways of dealing with criminal behavior, this study provides a way of understanding and predicting such behavior and potentially a way to modify it. It is curious that one of the first extensive sociometric studies done by J. L. Moreno and Helen Hall Jennings was at a New York state penal institution for young women.

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2026-01-23

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Vol. 48 No. 4 (1996): Group Psychotherapy, Psychodrama, and Sociometry

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