Review of JUVENILE VICTIMIZATION: The Institutional Paradox

Reviews the book, Juvenile victimization: The institutional paradox by Clemens Bartollas, Stuart J. Miller, Simon Dinitz (1976). This book clearly demonstrates about the readers who truly believe that the sociopsychiatric approach is alive and looking up will be heartened by this study of I50 juvenile male offenders incarcerated in a "correctional" institution that must be far from the worst such outfit in the country. The end product is surprising-sometimes outright shocking, sometimes only titillating-and tres chic. Here are some examples. But what part does the victim play in his victimization? Why should homicidal and suicidal persons be made prisoners of psychiatry before they have committed a definitive crime? Why compound the wrong by labeling a matricidal lower-class black boy as "emotionally disturbed," if that means he'll stay in an institution three months longer? (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2022 APA, all rights reserved)