TY - JOUR PY - 1966// TI - Adolescent Delinquency and the Myth of Hospital Treatment JO - Crime and delinquency A1 - Miller, R. B. A1 - Kenney, E. SP - 38 EP - 48 VL - 12 IS - 1 N2 - This article reports the experience of a psychiatric hospital's inpatient services for 247 adolescents between July 1, 1961, and June 30, 1964. Categories of referrals and patterns of community expectations are analyzed. Most of the referrals result from de linquency and are initiated by persons other than the patient or his family; e.g., courts, physicians, attorneys, sheriffs.

LA - SN - 0011-1287 UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/001112876601200106 ID - ref1 ER -