Anger management

• Short term aims-reduce anger and aggression
• Novaco- prisons are 'effective anger factories'
• Long term aims- rehabilitation and reduce reoffending
• Key aims (Novaco)

  • cognitive restructuring- awareness and control over anger
  • regulation of arousal- control physiological state
  • behavioural strategies- problem solving skills. withdrawal and assertiveness
• change way aggression is handled and change the way they think and behave (hostile attribution bias)
• Stress inoculation model

  • Conceptualisation - learn about anger, analyse their patterns and what provokes it
  • Skill acquisition - self- regulation, cognitive regulation, relaxation and manage anger
  • Application - practice skills in non-threatening situations
• Howells- anger not sufficient/ necessary condition for aggression/violent crime
• Not all crime is angry
• Improve prison environment
• 6 meta-analysis- 75% improvement in reducing anger
• cost 9.5 bil in reoffending
• Some don't like to reflect on their style of thinking
• have to be ready to change
• Therapy dilemma
• Cost vs benefit
• back into society- better for economy
• Consent from offenders?
• Anger not linked to aggression
• Drama based activity- less verbal is more successful
• Lab based- Loza and LozaFanous- no difference in anger in non/violent offenders