Transcript After a Guilty verdict

After a Guilty verdict
Treatment Programmes
After a Guilty Verdict
Imprisonment
Alternative to
Imprisonment
Treatments
Employment
Suicide
Prison
Probation
Restorative
Justice
Looking Death
Worthy
CBT
Gillis &
Nafekh
Palmer and
Connelly
Zimbardo
Mair & May
Sherman &
Strang
Eberhardt
Cann
Anger
Management
Ireland
Ear
Acupuncture
Wheatley
Treatment Programmes
• The re-offending rate is used as a measure of success for
all treatment programmes.
• The Home Office compares the expected risk of being reconvicted against what actually happens in treatment
and non-treated groups, to see if the difference is
significant 2 years later.
• This is dependent on having accurate statistics: some
offender may re-offend but not get caught, while others
may be picked up repeatedly.
How is CBT used to rehabilitate
offenders? Textbook 114
Types of Cognitive Skills Programmes Page 115
R & R (Reasoning & Rehabilitation)
ECT:
Evaluation of Cognitive Skills Programmes Page 115
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Friendship (2002) reported that re-offending rates for prisoners who received
CBT were 14% lower than those who hadn’t. However, a later study by
Falshaw & Friendship (2003) failed to find a significant difference.
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What is the reason for this difference in results?
Cognitive Skills Programmes
Cann: Impact of cognitive skills programmes in reducing re-conviction
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Most of the previous studies have been done on males. However, Cann’s study looks at
cognitive skills training and looks at a sample of female offenders.
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Why was the programme ineffective?
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What is the problem with using re-offending rates as measure of success of a
programme such as this?
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Reliability of CBT
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Other factors that increase/decrease success of staying out of prison
Anger Management
• Anger is a strong emotion and many prisoners have problems controlling
their anger which leads to violent behaviour.
What are the two types of aggression? 117
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• Anger needs to be controlled within a prison environment for the safety of
staff and inmates.
• One way of achieving this aim is through Anger Management
programmes.
• What are the aims of the National Anger Management Package course
for prisoners? (See booklet page 118)
Anger Management
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CALM is a cognitive behavioural programme aimed at prisoners who have problems managing their emotions and
for whom this had been an important part of their offending behaviour.
The prisoner may also show a lack of emotional control in the prison and therefore be difficult to manage.
There are six modules with a total of 26 sessions.
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Module 1:
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Module 2:
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Module 3:
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Module 4:
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Module 5:
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Module 6:
Evaluation of Anger Management
Ireland (2000): Investigation of whether anger-management courses work
• Effectiveness of programme:
• Quasi-experiment:
• Self-reports:
Ear acupuncture for drug rehabilitation
• Ear acupuncture is an alternative treatment that has been used in prisons
for 5 years.
• Its proponents, including Michael Wheatley, (Senior Manager for the Drug
Strategy & Services Directorate of High Security Prisons in England and
Wales), say it is popular because it is cheap, easily taught and does not
depend on the prisoner to be highly motivated to work.
Ear acupuncture for drug rehabilitation
• What is Focus?
• How does Ear Acupuncture fit into this programme?
Evaluation of Ear acupuncture for drug rehabilitation
Wheatley: Use of acupuncture to treat drug addiction in prisoners
• Effectiveness:
• Field experiment:
• Two trained practitioners: