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50 Years of ERIC
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Making Changes in Correctional Education.
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Hamm, Mark S. – Journal of Correctional Education, 1988
Discusses strategies for the implementation of programs thought to be worthy of greater exploration by individuals involved in the correctional education process. (JOW)
Descriptors: Adult Education, Correctional Education, Correctional Rehabilitation, Educational Change
The Human Potential Seminar: A Strategy for Teaching Socially Adaptive Behavior in a Correctional Classroom.
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Hamm, Mark S. – Journal of Correctional Education, 1987
A pretest/posttest control group design was employed to assess the efficacy of a social learning procedure in developing socially adaptive attitudes and behaviors in a group of incarcerated male juvenile delinquents. The experimental manipulation consisted of a series of structured group exercises. (Author/CH)
Descriptors: Behavior Modification, Correctional Education, Delinquency, Group Experience
Batterers Anonymous: Toward a Correctional Education to Control Romantic Violence.
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Hamm, Mark S. – Journal of Correctional Education, 1991
Recidivism data on 166 spouse abusers ordered to attend a "Batterers Anonymous" seminar showed a success rate of 80 percent after 18 months. The intervention worked less well for intensely violent men who suffered romantic crises. (Ten BA sessions are outlined.) (SK)
Descriptors: Adult Education, Anger, Behavior Patterns, Correctional Education