FORENSICS - Anger Management in custody
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- Created on: 26-02-19 13:00
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- Anger Management in custody
- Novaco Anger Scale
- 25 questions measuring anger with aim to reduce score out of 100
- NOVACO ('75) - many crimes committed bc of anger (inability to control or misplaced)
- aim of anger management is to teach offender to:
- 1) recognise feelings of anger
- 2) control anger behaviour
- 3) resolve conflict in positive ways
- Pros (A03)
- gives offender insight into how they think and helps them to understand their probs in the past. Cognitive intervention can make them function better in everyday life
- made difficult prisoners easier to control
- Cons (A03)
- can only be practised in enclosed areas
- in a hostile environment, they may react first as they will be angry to
- practising role-play situation is too different from real life. Offenders; ability to apply skill is hindered, may resort to former behaviour
- difficult to measure success of programmes. Recidivism could measure, but someone may re offend due to other factors, not the failure of the therapy
- lack of evidence that programmes last long term
- offender must be motivated to take part. Some may not have this and there intervention doesn't work well
- individ diffs: may be diff levels of anger for diff people, everyone will report change differently
- self report methods: self-desirability. Prisoners may exaggerate the effects - parole hearings
- demand characteristics: very obvious what right answers should be on Novaco anger questions
- not effective for certain people: psychopaths may use the skills taught to help manipulate the parole board to get them released
- Ainsworth (2000)
- identified 3 basic stages:
- skills acquisition - skills to control anger
- practice - react to something in a non-angry way
- cognitive preparation - thinking about it
- identified 3 basic stages:
- Research
- IRELAND - found signif improvements in the prisoners that took part in anger management therapy sessions (92% anger reduction). No changes in control group with no therapy
- TRIMBLE - anger management programme in Ireland reduced expression of anger and amount of anger experienced compared to their pre-treatment scores
- HOWELLS - meta-analysis -> found anger was reduced but not to a signif level. Found that anger level reported prior to therapy was an indicator of success and offenders' motivation to take part
- Novaco Anger Scale
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