The Effects of Behavioral/Cognitive-Behavioral Programs on Recidivism

Pearson, Frank S.; Lipton, Douglas S.; Cleland, Charles M.; Yee, Dorline

doi:10.1177/001112870204800306

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“…As has become customary, each summary effect size originally reported as a function of r was converted to a z, because "the sampling distribution of z(r)-scores is assumed to approach normality, whereas the sampling distribution for r is skewed for all values other than zero" (Pratt & Cullen, 2000, p. 940; also see explanations by Hall, 1995;Pearson, Lipton, Cleland, & Yee, 2002;Rosenthal, 1991).…”

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The Effects of Media Violence Exposure On Criminal Aggression

Savage

Yancey

2008

Criminal Justice and Behavior

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The article presents a meta-analysis of studies—yielding 26 independent samples of subjects—on the relationship between exposure to media violence and violent aggression. Mean effect sizes from aggregate and experimental studies do not suggest that media violence and criminal aggression are positively associated, but findings from prospective longitudinal studies are more ambiguous. Summary statistics based on models strictly conforming to each study's original design were compared to post hoc models (in which measures or model specification were not consistent with the original description). Overall, “original” models, controlling for “trait,” did not suggest that exposure to media violence is associated with criminal aggression. The summary statistic for boys reached statistical significance, but the effect size was small, and conclusions based on this finding are attenuated because of known biases in the coefficients estimated.

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Section: Methodsmentioning

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The Effects of Media Violence Exposure On Criminal Aggression

Savage

Yancey

2008

Criminal Justice and Behavior

161

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“…[5][6][7][8][9][10][11] Second, drug treatment provided to offenders has at least moderate effects in reducing drug use and criminal activity and in improving other areas of social functioning. [12][13][14][15][16] Finally, coerced clients and those who may not recognize or acknowledge that they have a drug problem can, through treatment participation and interaction with other clients, become engaged in treatment and do as well as voluntary clients. 17,18 Although the three assumptions do have empirical support, much more remains to be known about the external pressures and the internal perceptions of coerced treatment to determine the conditions under which coerced treatment is effective, to ensure that as many clients as possible benefit from treatment and to use treatment and criminal justice resources efficiently.…”

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Influence of Perceived Coercion and Motivation on Treatment Completion and Re-Arrest among Substance-Abusing Offenders

Prendergast¹,

Greenwell²,

Farabee³

et al. 2008

J Behav Health Serv Res

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The effects of perceived coercion and motivation on treatment completion and subsequent rearrest were examined in a sample of substance-abusing offenders assessed for California's Substance Abuse and Crime Prevention Act (SACPA) program. Perceived coercion was measured with the McArthur Perceived Coercion Scale; motivation was measured with the subscales of the Stages of Change Readiness and Treatment Eagerness Scale (SOCRATES). At treatment entry, clients were more likely to believe that they had exercised their choice in entering treatment than that they had been coerced into treatment. SACPA clients scored relatively low on Recognition and Ambivalence regarding their drug use but relatively high on Taking Steps to address their drug problem. Correlations between perceived coercion and motivation measures at treatment entry indicated that these are separate constructs. In logistic regression models, the Recognition subscale of the SOCRATES significantly predicted "any re-arrest," and Ambivalence and Taking Steps predicted "any drug arrest."

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“…Meta-analyses, in particular, have highlighted the effectiveness of CBT in addressing sexual offending (Lösel & Schumucker, 2005;Walker, McGovern, Poey, & Otis, 2005), as well as generalist offending involving property or violent misdemeanors (Landenberger & Lipsey, 2005;Pearson, Lipton, Cleland, & Yee, 2002;Redondo, Sánchez-Meca, & Garrido, 1999). CBT allows individuals to challenge and restructure thoughts and attitudes associated with their offending, recognize and appropriately respond to the range of triggers associated with their offending, and practice newly developed competencies and skills aimed at promoting a pro-social lifestyle (Milkman & Wanberg, 2007).…”

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Specialist group therapy for psychological factors associated with firesetting: Evidence of a treatment effect from a non-randomized trial with male prisoners

Gannon

Alleyne

Butler

et al. 2015

Behaviour Research and Therapy

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Despite huge societal costs associated with firesetting, no standardized therapy has been developed to address this hugely damaging behavior. This study reports the evaluation of the first standardized CBT group designed specifically to target deliberate firesetting in male prisoners (the Firesetting Intervention Programme for Prisoners; FIPP). Fifty-four male prisoners who had set a deliberate fire were referred for FIPP treatment by their prison establishment and psychologically assessed at baseline, immediately post treatment, and three-months post treatment. Prisoners who were treatment eligible yet resided at prison establishments not identified for FIPP treatment were recruited as Treatment as Usual controls and tested at equivalent time-points. Results showed that FIPP participants improved on one of three primary outcomes (i.e., problematic fire interest and associations with fire), and made some improvement on secondary outcomes (i.e., attitudes towards violence and antisocial attitudes) post treatment relative to controls. Most notable gains were made on the primary outcome of fire interest and associations with fire and individuals who gained in this area tended to self-report more serious firesetting behavior. FIPP participants maintained all key improvements at three-month follow up. These outcomes suggest that CBT should be targeted at those holding the most serious firesetting history. deaths, and $1.3 billion USD costs in property damage (Campbell, 2014). These latter property costs represent only a small amount of those incurred since they do not include some of the wider costs associated with firesetting (firefighting, or health costs or costs associated with wildfire damage). In the UK, there were 53,000 deliberately set fires and 451 fire- Over the past two decades, a small number of cognitive behavioral treatment packages (CBT) have been developed for use with mentally disordered firesetters (Hall, 1995; Swaffer, Hagget, & Oxley, 2001;Taylor, Thorne, Robertson, & Avery, 2002;Taylor, Robertson, Thorne, Belshaw, & Watson, 2006). However, these represent uncontrolled 'in house' therapy conducted with very small numbers of participants. In the largest study available (N = 14), Taylor et al. (2002) reported that a 40-session package of group CBT aimed primarily at reducing problematic fire interest and attitudes in patients with a learning disability led to significant improvements on standardized measures of fire interest and attitudes, anger, goal attainment (e.g., understanding of risk), and self esteem. In the absence 6 of any control group, however, the beneficial effect of this group therapy remains largely unclear. To our knowledge, no further firesetting treatment evaluation studies have been published. Furthermore, no treatment evaluation studies in prison settings have ever been reported. The current study aimed to provide the first evaluation of a specialist group therapy trial for male firesetters in a UK prison. The therapy evaluated differs from previous 'in house' therapies...

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The Effects of Behavioral/Cognitive-Behavioral Programs on Recidivism

Cited by 207 publications

References 16 publications

The Effects of Media Violence Exposure On Criminal Aggression

The Effects of Media Violence Exposure On Criminal Aggression

Influence of Perceived Coercion and Motivation on Treatment Completion and Re-Arrest among Substance-Abusing Offenders

Specialist group therapy for psychological factors associated with firesetting: Evidence of a treatment effect from a non-randomized trial with male prisoners

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