Life in a children's detention center
Strategies of survival
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 9054455 |
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| Authors | Susan Fisher (Harvard University, corresponding author), Susan M Fisher |
| Year | 1972 |
| Volume | 42 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 368-374 |
| Publication date | 1972-04-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | American Journal of Orthopsychiatry (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0002-9432 • E-ISSN: 1939-0025 |
| Publisher | American Psychological Association (APA) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1111/j.1939-0025.1972.tb02503.x |
| PMID | 5016845 |
| OpenAlex | W2049945192 |
| Language | EN |
Young children and adolescents, held awaiting trial, are cared for by staff of similar origins and character, who often use children to discharge complex, unacknowledged impulses. Survival mechanisms of children and staff, and institutional social structure are explored and related to perpetuation of individual abuses and an ambiguous, chaotic atmosphere
Center (category theory) · Child Abuse and Trauma · Medicine · Psychology · Gerontology
| Highly cited | No |
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