Violence is everywhere. It even takes place within our jails and prisons. Even though incarceration removes a person from the community, it does not necessarily change that person’s behavior or prevent them from engaging in violence. Violence in correctional facilities is very common. This article talks about the percentages of inmates who are arrested for violent behavior, who only served nearly half of their sentence, and those who were recidivists and violent recidivists. These statistics mentioned in the article show that a majority of the U.S. population will be incarcerated in their lifetime, a large number of those will be for violent offenses, and recidivism rates are high. The suggestion given is to either prevent this behavior, or
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It started in New York at the Green Haven Prison. Its original intent was to provide nonviolence training to the younger offenders. It later has stemmed numerous workshops that have been executed in prisons across the U.S. and internationally. The fundamental values of AVP include: serving as one another’s community, taking responsibility for oneself and consequences of the individuals own behavior, and look for other choices instead of fight or flight when faced with quarrel. Moreover, the inmates involved in this program volunteer instead of being forced to join. This evaluation took place from 1995-1996 when the AVP had been at the medium-security facility in Maryland for approximately 7 years. This program contains 5 steps: first, basic training, then, advanced training, next is the training for trainers, facilitation, and finally, management council membership. These steps are each about three days long and are run by inmate facilitators who have already completed all of the steps mentioned above. Graduating from these steps and leading them to training roles encourages nonviolence within the …show more content…
These included intrapersonal measures (which include anger, self-esteem, locus of control, and optimism) and behavioral measures. The Anger Expression Scale is a self-report assessment that consists of 20-items. This evaluation totaled all of the anger scores together. The next paragraph talks about self-esteem. This scale is called the Rosenberg Self-Esteem Scale that has a 10-item assessment. The higher the score, the higher the self-esteem. Thirdly, the article talks about locus of control. Rotter’s Locus of Control Inventory is a 29-item scale that had shown a 1-month test and retest reliability. Finally, we have optimism. Scheier and Carver’s Life Orientation Test was a 12-item scale that calculated an inmates sense of optimism. Furthermore, the article talks about behavioral measures. This was a self-report questionnaire that looked at an inmate’s level of exposure, as well as involvement, to violent and nonviolent confrontations within the past month. The results are talked about extensively and put into a chart to make it more easily understood. After that, the article goes into more detail talking about intrapersonal outcomes and the behavioral outcomes as well as more detail regarding the AVP impact. To conclude, results of this investigation are favorable and issue’s a foundation for continued investigation, development of programs, and institutional policy decision
It started in New York at the Green Haven Prison. Its original intent was to provide nonviolence training to the younger offenders. It later has stemmed numerous workshops that have been executed in prisons across the U.S. and internationally. The fundamental values of AVP include: serving as one another’s community, taking responsibility for oneself and consequences of the individuals own behavior, and look for other choices instead of fight or flight when faced with quarrel. Moreover, the inmates involved in this program volunteer instead of being forced to join. This evaluation took place from 1995-1996 when the AVP had been at the medium-security facility in Maryland for approximately 7 years. This program contains 5 steps: first, basic training, then, advanced training, next is the training for trainers, facilitation, and finally, management council membership. These steps are each about three days long and are run by inmate facilitators who have already completed all of the steps mentioned above. Graduating from these steps and leading them to training roles encourages nonviolence within the …show more content…
These included intrapersonal measures (which include anger, self-esteem, locus of control, and optimism) and behavioral measures. The Anger Expression Scale is a self-report assessment that consists of 20-items. This evaluation totaled all of the anger scores together. The next paragraph talks about self-esteem. This scale is called the Rosenberg Self-Esteem Scale that has a 10-item assessment. The higher the score, the higher the self-esteem. Thirdly, the article talks about locus of control. Rotter’s Locus of Control Inventory is a 29-item scale that had shown a 1-month test and retest reliability. Finally, we have optimism. Scheier and Carver’s Life Orientation Test was a 12-item scale that calculated an inmates sense of optimism. Furthermore, the article talks about behavioral measures. This was a self-report questionnaire that looked at an inmate’s level of exposure, as well as involvement, to violent and nonviolent confrontations within the past month. The results are talked about extensively and put into a chart to make it more easily understood. After that, the article goes into more detail talking about intrapersonal outcomes and the behavioral outcomes as well as more detail regarding the AVP impact. To conclude, results of this investigation are favorable and issue’s a foundation for continued investigation, development of programs, and institutional policy decision