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The conceptual literature on family businesses suggests that family businesses have difficulty managing their human resources, especially when it concerns a family member or the transition from the founder to the successor. The authors empirically examined the assumptions raised in the conceptual literature regarding whether family businesses were experiencing human resource problems in growing their business and what factors enabled or constrained the ability of their businesses to grow. The authors used in-depth interviewing to collect data in order to emphasize the depth of the issue. Using content analysis with subject matter experts coding the data, the authors sought to mine the richness of data. Finally, the authors analyzed the data using Elliot Jaques' Stratified Systems Theory as a model to examine the strategic human resource issues and to draw some tentative conclusions.

This study followed 44 subjects who had been diagnosed as extremely dangerous during placement in an institution for adjudicated juvenile delinquents. Criteria included post-release criminal behavior, sentences imposed for such behavior, and type of crime. Follow-up for periods ranging between two years post-release and more than ten years post-release found that the vast majority had been re-involved in crime; of those who had recidivated, only one had not been involved in a violent offense. Results suggest that for some proportion of subjects diagnosed as extremely dangerous, the likelihood of re-offending criminally, particularly violently, is very high.

This study analyzed the accuracy of predictions of criminality as a measure of future violent behavior by two psychologists at a juvenile correctional facility. The purpose of the study was to look at how effectively predictions of future dangerousness could be made under certain conditions. While other studies have looked at how accurately predictions of violence could be made for large populations, this study looked at whether a subgroup within a general population could accurately be labeled as very likely to reoffend violently. A comparison between the accuracy of the psychologists∗ prediction of future dangerousness and a sample of the institution population was made. The results indicated that the psychologists accurately identified a subpopulation significantly more likely to engage in future acts of violence within a one-year follow-up period and were able to select a group significantly more likely to reofTend than the general population.