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COUNTERBLAST: The Prison Overcrowding Crisis and Some Constructive Perspectives for Crime Policy
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This article is published in Howard Journal of Criminal Justice.The article was published on 2007-12-01. It has received 12 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Prison overcrowding & Poison control.read more
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The Social Learning Theory of Crime and Deviance
TL;DR: An overview of Akers' social learning theory including its theoretical foundations and four central explanatory concepts of differential association, definitions, differential reinforcement, and imitation is provided in this paper, along with a review of the evidence on the SSSL model pointing toward future directions for social learning and social structure.
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Accumulating meaning, purpose and opportunities to change ‘drip by drip’: the impact of being a listener in prison
TL;DR: A qualitative analysis on the experience of being a Listener and the impact it has on individuals and their prison experience is presented in this article, which revealed two main superordinate themes: listening and personal transformation and countering negative prison emotions.
Dissertation
The untapped utility of peer-support programs in prisons and implications for theory, policy, and practice
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors explored the utility of peer-helping roles in the context of sexual offenders in the U.K. and found that they can be used to cope with prison deprivation, enhance well-being, contribute to good lives and possible selves, and energise cognitive transformations.
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Rehabilitative Culture in Prisons for People Convicted of Sexual Offending
Ruth E. Mann,Georgia D. Barnett,George Box,Flora Fitzalan Howard,Oscar O’Mara,Rosie Travers,Helen C. Wakeling +6 more
TL;DR: Mann and Keylock as discussed by the authors found that when men convicted of sexual offences felt psychologically and physically unsafe in prison, their personal resources were consumed by finding ways to feel safe, and denial of their offences was one useful way to reduce their anxiety.
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Long-term effects of nurse home visitation on children's criminal and antisocial behavior: 15-year follow-up of a randomized controlled trial.
David L. Olds,Charles R. Henderson,Robert Cole,John Eckenrode,Harriet Kitzman,Dennis W. Luckey,Lisa M. Pettitt,Kimberly Sidora,Pamela Morris,Jane Powers +9 more
TL;DR: This program of prenatal and early childhood home visitation by nurses can reduce reported serious antisocial behavior and emergent use of substances on the part of adolescents born into high-risk families.
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The effectiveness of treatment for sexual offenders: A comprehensive meta-analysis
Friedrich Lösel,Martin Schmucker +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, a meta-analysis on controlled outcome evaluations of sexual offender treatment was conducted, and the majority confirmed the benefits of treatment, including 6 percentage points or 37% less sexual recidivism than controls.
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Evaluation of the First 3 Years of the Fast Track Prevention Trial with Children at High Risk for Adolescent Conduct Problems
TL;DR: Parenting behavior and children's social cognitive skills that had previously emerged as proximal outcomes at the end of the 1st year of intervention continued to show positive effects of the intervention at theend of third grade.
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Effects of Child Skills Training in Preventing Antisocial Behavior: A Systematic Review of Randomized Evaluations
Friedrich Lösel,Andreas Beelmann +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, a meta-analysis on social skills training as a measure for preventing antisocial behavior in children and youth was performed, and the best estimated mean effects were d =.38 (postintervention) and.28 (follow-up).
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The relationship of interparental conflict and global marital adjustment to aggression, anxiety, and immaturity in aggressive and nonclinic children
Mark R. Dadds,Martine B. Powell +1 more
TL;DR: The relationships among mothers' ratings of marital adjustment, parenting disagreements, and three child problem factors (aggression, anxiety, and immaturity) after the child's age and family socioeconomic status were controlled revealed that parenting disagreement predicted aggression in all groups and that both marital adjustment and parenting disagreements predicted anxiety in boys.