Patterns of behavior in adolescent rape.

A study of 67 rapes by 63 California adolescents has yielded a highly representative composite picture of the typical rape episode by a juvenile assailant. Previously unexplored behavior patterns have emerged, including prior drug use, impulsivity, and lack of victim provocation. These findings have practical implications for clinicians treating rape victims and for the rehabilitation of adolescent rapists.

Racial intolerance in a correctional institution: an ecological view.

To determine the significance of social factors in racial intolerance, the authors studied the relationship between relational behavior and ethnicity, group status and role, peer acceptance, and group cohesion in an adolescent correctional institution. Results portray three distinct patterns of adaptation. Hispanics (Chicanos) formed a highly cohesive group that required considerable conformity to group norms; policy was implemented by a leadership capable of relating well to all ethnic groups.

Intolerance and extremism in a correctional institution: a perceived ethnic relations approach.

The authors used an ecological approach to analyze the interaction of ethnicity, environment, personality, and ideology that led to racial intolerance, ethnic strife, and the existence of a self-styled neo-Nazi group in a correctional institution for youthful offenders. Staff members completed a questionnaire on which they rated the behavior of each of 320 inmates toward his own and other ethnic groups. The inmate's membership, if any, in a "power" subgroup was also noted.

The use of a written summary in group psychotherapy supervision.

Clinical supervision is an important feature of the education of the group therapist. The authors describe the application of a summary written by trainee cotherapists in their supervision. They found that the summary, which is supplied to the patients as well as to the supervisor, serves several functions that contribute to improved quality of clinical supervision and training of group therapists.

LSD and genetic damage.

Of nine studies in vitro, six have indicated some degree of induced chromosomal breakage after exposure to LSD; three failed to confirm these results. The damage, when found, was generally of the chromatid type, arising during or after DNA synthesis. This damage, with one exception, was the result of concentrations of drug and durations of exposure which could not be achieved in humans with reasonable dosages.