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level questions: Treatment of criminals

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Weakness of anger programme?Offenders can abuse the programmes and use these skills to maniplulate people. Marine Rice suggests that psychopaths can use may be more likely to reoffend because they use these skills to manipulate others.
Weakness of anger programme?Offenders can abuse the programmes and use these skills to maniplulate people. Marine Rice suggests that psychopaths can use may be more likely to reoffend because they use these skills to manipulate others.
What is token economy programmes?Tokens are secondary reinforcement and can be exchnges for primary reinforments that have genuine vluve to prisoners.
What is the aim of token economy?Decrease anti-socil behaviour and promote prosocial behaviour, based of the principlaes of operant conditioning.
What are the 3 stages of coginitive behavioural therapy?Cognitive preparation Skills acquisation Application practice
What is cognitive preparation?Offenders reflects on what makes them angry and what triggers this behaviour and why they are feeling that way
What is skill acquisation?Offender learns a new skill to help them control thier anger and relax, find a different soltion other than anger
What is application practice?Practices thier new anger management skill through role-play situations.
Strength of token economyThere has been evidence of short-term increase of pro-social beahviour within prison. Tom Hobbs and Micheal Holt saw increase with young offenders.
Weakness of token economy?Control behaviour but not decrease recidivism. They havent got this in every day life, limited to prison environment.
Strenght of anger management programmes?Offenders are carefully selected, stops violent crims bc of anger.
Weakness of anger programme?Offenders can abuse the programmes and use these skills to maniplulate people. Marine Rice suggests that psychopaths can use may be more likely to reoffend because they use these skills to manipulate others.