%0 Journal Article
%T "Dangerousness" within a juvenile institution
%J Journal of criminal justice
%D 1978
%A Tennenbaum, David J.
%V 6
%N 4
%P 329-345
%X Experiments were conducted to test three hypotheses within a maximum security juvenile institution: (1) that the Overcontrolled Hostility (OH) scale, the Socialization (So) scale, and the Hand Test may be used to differentiate dangerous from nondangerous inmates; (2) that an instrument can be constructed that will differentiate dangerous from nondangerous youths; and (3) that there is a negative correlation between staff's perception of a youth's degree of dangerousness and their desire to not work with dangerous youths. The So, OH, and Hand Test were administered as was a twenty-five-word adjective checklist (the<p />
%G 
%I Elsevier Publishing
%@ 0047-2352
%U http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/0047-2352(78)90089-2