SOC 3710 Lecture Notes - The Pod, Random Assignment, The Control Group
14 Jul 2014
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By having these kids removed from their environment, they were better able to learn survival skills and co-operate with other kids. The idea was that these kids would return to their environments much stronger and less predisposed to commit crime. These kids were seen as lacking discipline and lacking respect for authorities and had to be re-socialized. Scared straight: clip: beyond scared straight: the pod (youtube, took off in the late 1970"s, they still exist today. The initial belief that these programs were very successful in deterring crime: they would follow these kids for three years after going to rathway prison. Boot camps: started in the us in the 1980s, happened after scared straight. Idea that strict disciple are seen as effective in reforming at-risk youth. They were more cost-effective than traditional correctional programs (they had no standards for who were recruited to run these programs; staffing was low-skilled, low-waged, non-union) (cid:224)
