Abstract
This study examined value differences of violent and nonviolent youthful offenders committed to the California Youth Authority's Northern California Reception Center in Sacramento. Previous research indicated that high rates of violent crime were related to the subculture of violence hypothesis, i.e., violent offenders exhibited a different value orientation than nonviolent offenders. The Rokeach Value Survey was used to measure the values of violent and nonviolent youthful offenders. The data suggested that value systems of violent and nonviolent youthful offenders were basically the same. Six of the 36 values differed significantly. This finding was consistent with the recent studies of Ball-Rokeach.
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