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COSIG Co-Occurring Disorders Conference, Hershey PA, May 15-17, 2006
Criminal Logic Presents Itself
As:
• Victim Stance “I’m the victim here!”
• Blames Others “If it weren’t for ….”
• Uniqueness “I’m one in a million!”
• People, Places and Things are
“possessions”
• Instant Gratification (What? Me learn from the past?)
• Lies by Omission
•etc.
Application of Punishment
• Does little to disengage offenders from
patterns of thinking that re-enforce the
logic of crime and the logic of nonaccountability
• Criminals fail to learn from prior negative
experiences
Effective Communication/Motivational
Strategies
• Old Corrections Belief: “
Everyone doing this work has
their own style of
communication/interaction with
offenders and all styles are okay.”
• New Belief:
“Communication/Interaction
strategies have an impact on
motivation and successful
outcomes in the reduction of
recidivism. It is the obligation and
responsibility of corrections
professionals to know when and
how to use specific
communication strategies to
produce better results.”
Social Learning Theory
Social Learning Theory
• A triangulation of dynamic factors, behavior,
environment and “cognitive structures” each
having potential influence over the other.
Behavior
Environment
Cognitive Structure
Tenets of Social Learning Theory
(A Bandura, Social Learning theory, 1977)
• Response consequences such as rewards
or punishments influence the likelihood
that a person will act in a certain way in a
given situation.
• Humans can learn by observing others.
• Individuals are most likely to model
behavior observed by others they identify
with.
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