The Transformation of Strategies for Controlling Admissions: Professionalization and Youth Processing Organizations

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Authors/collaborators
Title
The Transformation of Strategies for Controlling Admissions: Professionalization and Youth Processing Organizations
Abstract
The authors present highlights from a larger study tracing the history (1908-1984) of public policies affecting the disposition of delinquent, neglected, and emotionally disturbed Anglophone youth in Montreal. The impact of these policies is examined from the vantage point of a single organization, The Boys' Farm/Shawbridge Youth Centres, and its long attempts to control the admission of clients. The authors demonstrate how professionalization altered, masked, and legitimated organizational strategies for selecting desirable clients and warding off undesirable ones. The effectiveness of these transformed client-recruitment strategies is displayed against the backdrop of earlier, balder and less successful strategies.
Publication
Crime & Delinquency
Volume
Vol. 37
Issue
no. 2
Pages
281-299
Date
April 1991
Language
en
Citation
Rains, Prue, and Eli Teram. “The Transformation of Strategies for Controlling Admissions: Professionalization and Youth Processing Organizations.” Crime & Delinquency Vol. 37, no. 2 (April 1991): 281–299.
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