Dealing with offending behaviour- Behaviour modification- A01
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- Dealing with
offending behaviour- Behaviour
modification
- 1. Aims to reinforce
obedient or desirable behaviour in offenders, based on the behaviourist
principle that all behaviour is learned.
- 2. Undesirable behaviour should therefore be punished to reduce the likelihood of such behaviour being repeated.
- Token economy
- Desirable behaviours, such as avoiding conflict and keeping a cell tidy, can be rewarded with tokens- secondary reinforcers
- Which can be exchanged for a primary reinforcer- something desirable such as extra food or a phone call home.
- Non-compliance or disobedience results in tokens and their associated privileges being withheld.
- Changing
behaviour
- To make this process more manageable, a desirable behaviour, such as avoiding conflict, is broken down into more achievable sub-steps, such as working well in a group.
- The same behaviours would be rewarded by every person the offender comes into contact with.
- Hobbs and Holt
(1976)
- Found that there was a significant difference in positive behaviours amongst a group of young offenders undergoing a token economy system, compared to a non-token economy group
- Suggesting it is effective in modifying behaviour.
- Rice examined the outcomes
from 92 prisoners on a token economy programme in a maximum-security
psychiatric hospital and found two things.
- One that if it was effective for an individual ten it continued to be so while in the institution.
- Two the success shown within the institution had no influence on the offenders’ outcomes once released.
- This seems to suggest that it works for certain individuals only and only short term, meaning the programme has no rehabilitative abilities.
- 1. Aims to reinforce
obedient or desirable behaviour in offenders, based on the behaviourist
principle that all behaviour is learned.
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