PSYC 379 Lecture 11: Week 11 – 1- Psych 379

• School: Simon Fraser University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 379
• Professor: Sarah Mordell

Document Summary

Early 20th century was rehabilitation oriented: but treatment still contained capital punishment. Some were promising treatment but methodologically weak. 1970s get tough approach aimed toward punishment: poor success rate research, fail, harsher punishment. Punishment that fits the crime still fails in terms of the get tough approach. Things needed for it to be effected is not present. Slow return to a rehabilitation approach: shift moved from broad rehabilitation to what works. Individual: biological and personal history factors increase likelihood of being victim or perpetrator substance use, or history beliefs and behaviors that avoid violence. Relationship: closest circle of peers and family influence behavior: prevention: mentoring and peer program, foster problem solving skills. Identify characteristics: prevention: impact climate, processes and policy, social norms. Societal: help create a climate that enforces violence: social and cultural norms and health, economic and educational or social policies that. Risks needs responsivity model of intervention maintain inequality.