TY - JOUR PY - 1978// TI - "Dangerousness" within a juvenile institution JO - Journal of criminal justice A1 - Tennenbaum, David J. SP - 329 EP - 345 VL - 6 IS - 4 N2 - 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
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