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what was the aim? |
to investigate if cognitive skill programmes were effective in lowering re-offending rates for a sample of women prisoners |
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what 2 programmes did the prisoners start?
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enhanced thinking skills R and R |
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describe the control group |
540 female offenders |
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what was calculated? |
expected 2-year re-conviction rates actual reconviction rates |
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what was done with the expected re-conviction rates? |
given a high, medium or low rating |
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what was found about the expected re-conviction rates? |
no significant difference |
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what was found about the actual re-conviction rates? |
no significant difference |
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what happened to the RandR group? |
they actually got worse |
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what can be concluded? |
it is not effective with females |
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what study supported this conclusion? |
friendship et al 2002 |
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what did friendship find? |
that it is very effective for male offenders |
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why was this programme not effective for female inmates? |
they offend for different reasons than men drug abuse, relationship problems, emotion and finances developed for men, not women it was not done for long |
