Citation

Berleman WC, Steinburn TW. Crime Delinq. 1969; 15(4): 471-478.

Copyright

(Copyright © 1969, SAGE Publishing)

DOI

10.1177/001112876901500404

PMID

unavailable

Abstract

Five major delinquency prevention experiments conducted in the open community among voluntary juvenile subjects reveal uniformly disappointing results: the provision of a preventive service seems no more effective in reducing delinquency than no service at all. The controlled procedures governing these experi ments make these negative findings particularly convincing and thus constitute a challenge to services offered in the name of "delinquency prevention.".