Women's reformatory study. 1925.

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Women's reformatory study. 1925.

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The Women's Reformatory Study was conducted by Harvard Law School researchers Sheldon and Eleanor Glueck in order to assess the overall effectiveness of correctional treatment on five hundred females sentenced to the Women's Reformatory at Framingham, Massachusetts, whose parole expired between 1920 and 1925. Data were collected for two time periods: 1) the time period up to the end of the parole and 2) the time period after the expiration of the reformatory sentence. The majority of these women were imprisoned for prostitution. Data concerning the offenders were derived from reformatory and parole records, interviews with the participants, as well as their relatives, acquaintances, and employers. As a result of this fieldwork, data are available concerning the personal, family, reformatory, and parole history of the offenders. The variables in this study are numerous and provide information concerning financial arrangements, home environment, employment history, and numbers and types of transgressions of each participant. Significant attention was focused on the pattern and types of employment maintained by the participants, their relationships to their family members, leisure activities, friends, and way of life after being released from the reformatory. Because the majority of the offenses committed by the women were sexual in nature, particular attention was paid to the sexual activities of the participants after the expiration of their sentences. Some unique factors included in this study are descriptive variables such as the abilities of the offender upon entrance to the reformatory, the vocational experiences of the offender in the reformatory, and the attitude of the community toward the subject. The Murray Center currently holds all raw data for each participant in a file identified by the participant's identification number and name. The data have not been deidentified, so special permission is required for access to the records.

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Massachusetts Correctional Institution, Framingham, Mass. (1955-)

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The Massachusetts Correctional Institution, Framingham serves as the general penitentiary for women convicts for the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. A carceral facility for female convicts was first established with An Act to Establish a Reformatory Prison for Women (St 1874, c 385), which authorized the Commissioners of Prisons to plan for the erection of a reformatory prison suitable for five hundred prisoners. The commissioners were charged with the general supervisi...

Glueck, Eleanor Touroff, 1898-1972

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Glueck, Sheldon, 1896-1980

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Criminologist, law professor, legal scholar, playwright. Prof. Harvard Law School, 1929-1963. Director, basic research into causes, management and prevention of juvenile delinquency, 1925-1972. Member, Advisory Comm. on Rules of Criminal Procedure, U.S. Supreme Court, 1941-1942, 1960-1966. Advisor to Justice Robert H. Jackson on War Crimes, 1944-1945. Recipient Isaac Ray award, American Psychological Association, 1961. From the description of Papers, 1916-1972. (Harvard Law School Libr...

Radcliffe College. Henry A. Murray Research Center

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The Henry A. Murray Research Center of Radcliffe College, (formerly the Radcliffe Data Resource and Research Center, 1976-1979) was founded by Radcliffe College in 1976 as a national repository for social science data on the changing life experiences of American women, and to sponsor scholarly research on the impact of social change on women's lives. From the description of Records of the Henry A. Murray Research Center, 1976-1988 (inclusive). (Harvard University). WorldCat record id...