Treating offenders

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Why do we treat offenders?
To reduce recidivism, give them the skills to deal with situations, reducing the number of crimes committed and also the amount of re-offenders
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What are the 2 treatments you need to know?
Cognitive behavioural therapy (anger management) and Biological treatment (hormone and drug treatment)
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Who came up with the idea for anger management therapy?
Novaco (1975)
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What did Novaco believe?
There is a role of cognitions in anger and expression of the anger reinforces behaviour and sets a pattern for further behaviour
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What are the 3 stages of anger management?
1) Cognitive preparation- identify situations that anger, 2) Skill acquisition- learn new coping skills, 3) Application practice- role play to practice new skills
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Describe Irelands 2004 study
She looked at 2 groups of prisoners, 50 prisoners on the anger management program and then a control group, prisoners completed anger questionnaire at the start, guards also completed a wing behaviour checklist with a list of aggressive behaviours on
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What did Ireland (2004) find?
The experimental group showed a significant decrease in the score on the anger questionnaire, the wing behaviour checklist also showed a significant drop in aggressive behaviours
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Describe Howell et al's 2005 study
Carried out a similar study to Ireland's, however they also looked at anger management after 2 and 6 months of completing the program
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What did Howell find?
Found initially that there was a difference but it wasnt statistically significant, after 2 months they found similar finding but their ability to control temper was better than control, after 6 months no significance was found
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What else did Howell find about anger management?
The program has good predictive validity in seeing which offenders will benefit the most from it
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Name 3 hormone treatments that address certain imbalances that lead to aggression
1) Dopamine (Risperidone)- lowering dopamine levels, reward pathway with aggression, 2) Serotonin (SSRI's)- for mood imbalance, 3) Testosterone (progesterone)- too much testosterone balanced out with female hormone to reduce aggression
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What type of offender does hormone and drug treatments focus on?
Sex offenders as hormones and drugs tend to normalise sexual drives, reduce urges and deviant fantasies, there are antiandrogens which block androgens and just giving them female hormones like progesterone
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What did Maletzky et al (2006) find?
They found that antiandrogens lowered rates of sexual recidivism and decreased sexual arousal, also found a very statistically significant change when using progesterone hormones
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How statistically significant was the results using MPA (progesterone drug)?
They used chi squared and found any violation of parole was greatly reduced, significance at p
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