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scaredstraight1 CONSTRUCTScared straightPETROSINO · JUVENILE JUSTICE

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Juvenile justice

programs that take at-risk youth to prisons to deter them through confrontation with inmates, which tend to increase delinquency.

In juvenile justice, scared straight refers to programs that take at-risk youth to prisons to deter them through confrontation with inmates, which tend to increase delinquency. This meaning comes from Petrosino (2003) in The ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social Science.[1]

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  1. Petrosino, A., Turpin-Petrosino, C., & Buehler, J. (2003). Scared Straight and Other Juvenile Awareness Programs for Preventing Juvenile Delinquency: A Systematic Review of the Randomized Experimental Evidence. The ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, 589(1), 41-62. https://doi.org/10.1177/0002716203254693

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