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Healing with Word: How Young Adult Literature Affects Incarcerated Adolescent Males

Hare, Heather N.
http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ohiou1509535179731481

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2017, Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Ohio University, Curriculum and Instruction (Education).
There is an alarming number of incarcerated teenagers, especially teen males. Youth who are delinquent before age 14 are more likely to become chronic offenders. Because of influential factors to delinquency outlined by Murray and Farrington (2010), juvenile delinquents have poor reading attitudes, low empathy levels, and increased impulsive tendencies. Literature can be an effective way to increase reading attitude, empathy, and decrease impulsivity in incarcerated teens. When incarcerated adolescents are presented with authentic, high interest Young Adult Literature, they may become more receptive to educational opportunities. This convergent parallel mixed methods study investigated the literary responses of a group of incarcerated juvenile males after reading high interest Young Adult Literature. The participants were male felony offenders, ages 12 to 18 at an Ohio residential rehabilitation program that specifically serves juvenile males. The knowledge the participants acquired from the study concerning literature, impulsivity, race, masculinity, and empathy may support them in making thoughtful, empathetic, and prosocial life choices in the future.
Sara Helfrich (Advisor)
124 p.
Reading Instruction; Secondary Education
Young Adult Literature; At-risk; Incarcerated Juvenile Males; Reading; Empathy; Impulsivity

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  • Hare, H. N. (2017). Healing with Word: How Young Adult Literature Affects Incarcerated Adolescent Males [Doctoral dissertation, Ohio University]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ohiou1509535179731481

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • Hare, Heather. Healing with Word: How Young Adult Literature Affects Incarcerated Adolescent Males. 2017. Ohio University, Doctoral dissertation. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ohiou1509535179731481.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • Hare, Heather. "Healing with Word: How Young Adult Literature Affects Incarcerated Adolescent Males." Doctoral dissertation, Ohio University, 2017. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ohiou1509535179731481

    Chicago Manual of Style (17th edition)

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