Drug Treatments of Offenders Flashcards

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Drug Treatments for Offenders STRENGTH- Coccaro and Kavoussi (1997)
Used personality-disordered (aggressive) offenders, and gave them fluxetine to see if their aggression was reduced. Compared to the control group, irritability scores reduced after 2 months and aggression after 3 months.
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Drug Treatments for Offenders STRENGTH- Emory et al (1992)
Evaluated Depo-Provera (MPA) and concluded that such treatment lowered the sexual interest of patients and was useful in allowing engagement with psychotherapies.
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Drug Treatments for Offenders STRENGTH- Federoff et al (1992)
Looked at MPA and found that 15% of users re-offended whilst 68% of non-users re-offended
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Drug Treatments for Offenders WEAKNESS- Loosen, Purdon and Pavlou (1997)
Found that the administration of MPA resulted in reductions of aggression amongst 8 participants- but these were non-aggressive men so the findings have little application to aggressive men.
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Drug Treatments for Offenders WEAKNESS- Couppis and Kennedy (2008)
They founds that dopamine may actually be a consequence of aggressive behaviour rather than a cause- suggests the theory is incomplete.
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Drug Treatments for Offenders WEAKNESS- Maletsky et al (2006)
Found that 41% of offenders that were recommended to receive treatment didn't. Reasons included cost and availability. Additionally, the drugs are hard to administer and supervise.
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Evaluated Depo-Provera (MPA) and concluded that such treatment lowered the sexual interest of patients and was useful in allowing engagement with psychotherapies.

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Drug Treatments for Offenders STRENGTH- Emory et al (1992)

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Looked at MPA and found that 15% of users re-offended whilst 68% of non-users re-offended

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Found that the administration of MPA resulted in reductions of aggression amongst 8 participants- but these were non-aggressive men so the findings have little application to aggressive men.

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They founds that dopamine may actually be a consequence of aggressive behaviour rather than a cause- suggests the theory is incomplete.

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