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Women's Reformatory Study, 1921-1925

Harvard Dataverse (Africa Rice Center, Bioversity International, CCAFS, CIAT, IFPRI, IRRI and WorldFish)

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Title Women's Reformatory Study, 1921-1925
 
Identifier https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/GYXXTZ
 
Creator Glueck, Sheldon
Glueck, Eleanor Touroff
 
Publisher Harvard Dataverse
 
Description The Women's Reformatory Study sought to examine the lives of women criminal offenders on several levels. The study aimed to look at the childhood, adolescence, and adulthood backgrounds of offenders in terms of their physical, psychological, and social characteristics, and to determine the effect of the Reformatory experience on subsequent post-Reformatory adjustments in work and family, and on the incidence of crime desistance.




Five hundred women were studied in order to assess the overall effectiveness of correctional treatment. Information concerning the personal, family, reformatory, and parole history of these women was gleaned from reformatory and parole records, and interviews with the subjects as well as their relatives, acquaintances, and employers.



The data gathered consisted of information covering the time up to the end of the parole period and information covering the five year period after the expiration of the reformatory sentence. Variables assessed related to personal history; family history; reformatory history; parole history; and follow-up history.




The Murray Archive holds additional analogue materials for this study (record paper data for baseline data collection and at the five-year post-parole follow-up). The data are also available in microfiche format. If you would like to access this material, please apply to use the data.
 
Subject Social Sciences
 
Type field study, longitudinal