RT Journal
A1 Miller PR
T1 OUtcasts and conformers in a girls' prison
JF Archives of General Psychiatry
JO Archives of General Psychiatry
YR 1969
FD June 1
VO 20
IS 6
SP 700
OP 708
DO 10.1001/archpsyc.1969.01740180084008
UL http://dx.doi.org/10.1001/archpsyc.1969.01740180084008
AB EVERY social group has its deviants, some of whom exceed acceptable boundaries in their behavior and are cast out. Juvenile delinquents are deviants in general society, and some of them become outcasts when they are incarcerated in a prison (euphemistically called a training school).Some inmates in the prison become deviants by violating rules that the rest of the inmates follow. The most extreme deviants are transformed into prison outcasts by being further segregated in a jail within the prison.The "Adjustment Cottage" was the name of the jail within the prison at the Illinois State Training School for Girls in Geneva, Ill. It was operated with maximum security; each girl was confined almost all the time to her own cell. Meals were served in the cell. Since each cell contained a washbasin and toilet, the girls only had to be let out for a biweekly shower, and