Anger Management 6
Essay: 3. could anger management be used to deal with most violent criminals? Discuss
Anger management commonly refers to a system of therapeutic psychological techniques and exercises by which someone with excessive or uncontrollable anger can reduce or control the triggers, degrees, and effects of an emotional angered state. The term violent crime is interoperated as a crime in which an offender uses violent force or threatens the victim. This entails both crimes in which the violent act of the offender is the objective such as murder, child abuse as well as crimes where violence is the means to an end such as robbery. Anger management is somewhat used in our prisons today to enhance behaviour difficulties in violent offenders. This is not an effective way to reduce crime in society prison systems but an easier way for the prison system to convict violent offenders. This allows the offenders to get an easier, less punishable way out of the violent offence they have committed. We should be considering, when someone beats there wife, child or any other persons, they do not just do it once and then stop. This is an ongoing thing that can rarely be resolved and anger management is not a suitable option for those criminals who have committed these kinds of violent offences.
An example of who the anger management program would work on and who it wouldn’t have any effect on would be on a person who committed a sexual assault as the studies suggest that people who commit sexual assault are not violent offenders as such they have a mental disorder or haven’t been brought up right the sexual assault offender needs psychological help not anger management. Compared to a person who just assaulted someone outside of a pub/nightclub that is a crime that is caused by violence and anger management would be affective if that person wanted to change their behaviour and if they were committed to the program.
Howells 1998. Ramm and Black 2001 concluded, “This therapeutic approach
Anger management commonly refers to a system of therapeutic psychological techniques and exercises by which someone with excessive or uncontrollable anger can reduce or control the triggers, degrees, and effects of an emotional angered state. The term violent crime is interoperated as a crime in which an offender uses violent force or threatens the victim. This entails both crimes in which the violent act of the offender is the objective such as murder, child abuse as well as crimes where violence is the means to an end such as robbery. Anger management is somewhat used in our prisons today to enhance behaviour difficulties in violent offenders. This is not an effective way to reduce crime in society prison systems but an easier way for the prison system to convict violent offenders. This allows the offenders to get an easier, less punishable way out of the violent offence they have committed. We should be considering, when someone beats there wife, child or any other persons, they do not just do it once and then stop. This is an ongoing thing that can rarely be resolved and anger management is not a suitable option for those criminals who have committed these kinds of violent offences.
An example of who the anger management program would work on and who it wouldn’t have any effect on would be on a person who committed a sexual assault as the studies suggest that people who commit sexual assault are not violent offenders as such they have a mental disorder or haven’t been brought up right the sexual assault offender needs psychological help not anger management. Compared to a person who just assaulted someone outside of a pub/nightclub that is a crime that is caused by violence and anger management would be affective if that person wanted to change their behaviour and if they were committed to the program.
Howells 1998. Ramm and Black 2001 concluded, “This therapeutic approach
References: Pages: 3, Web Site: www.insideprison.com/violentoffenders.asp (Mark Dombeck, PhD), Anger Management Journal article,(2003) Benedict Carey, New York Times Journal article, Anger Management may not help at all, (2004) John Daws- Executive director of South Australian Prisons, Managing serious violent offenders in South Australian prisons: Control, Consensus or Responsibility