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Presenter: Phillip BarbourPresenter: Phillip Barbour
Goals of Criminal Thinking Therapy
๏ To describe and provide examples of common criminal thinking errors in the offender pop lationpopulation. ๏ To help mental health and corrections practitioners and offenders become more aware of thinking errors and thinking distortions. ๏ To assist change agents in facilitating the criminal thinking change process.
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Criminal Thinking works in other programs
๏ Corrective Thinking, Domestic Violence, AODA and/or CognitiveโBehavioral focus ๏๏ Adult male or female offenders ๏ Batterers and/or drug abusers ๏ 7th grade reading level is the intended target audience
The History
๏ Utilizes the theory and principles developed by Stanton Samenow and Yochelson ๏๏ Investigation of Criminal Behavior at St ElizabethsInvestigation of Criminal Behavior at St. Elizabeths Hospital in Washington, D.C. ๏ The longest clinical research of offenders in North America ๏ Three volume publication The Criminal Personality (Lanham, Md.: Roman and Littlefield) that he coโ authored with Dr. Yochelson.
Question: What is Criminal
Thinking?Thinking?
A simple question
1. Closed Channel Thinking
๏ Not Receptive
๏ Not Self Critical
๏ No Disclosure
๏ Good at pointing out, giving feedback on faults of others ๏ Lies by omission
Citation: www.criminalthinking.net
2. Victim Stance
๏ Views self as victim (the criminal will even blame social conditions โI live in the ghetto, what do you o e pectโ)expectโ)
๏ Blames others (โthe cops just keep messing with meโ)
Citation: www.criminalthinking.net
3. Views Self As A Good Person
๏ Focuses only on his/her positive attributes
๏ Fails to acknowledge his/her destructive behavior
๏ Builds self up at others expense
Citation: www.criminalthinking.net
4. Lack Of Effort / Selective Effort
- Unwilling to do anything he/she finds boring or disagreeable
- "I can't" meaning "I won'tโ
- Doing only the minimum to get by
Citation: www.criminalthinking.net
5. Lack Of Interest In Responsible
Performance
๏ Responsible living viewed as unexciting and unsatisfying
๏๏ No sense of obligation
๏ Will respond only if he/she nets an immediate payoff
6. Lack Of Time Perspective
๏ Does not use past as a learning tool
๏ Expects others to act immediately on his/her/demands / /
๏ Decisions on assumptions, not facts
10. Ownership Attitude
๏ Perceives all things, people, objects to possess ๏ No concept of ownership, rights of others ๏ Sex for power and control โ not intimacy ๏ Use drugs/money as a means of controlling people
How do you know?y
What are some tactics used by the
criminal thinker?
Criminal Thinking Tactics
- Continuously point out staff inadequacies
- Building self up by putting others down 3 Telling others what they want to hear3. Telling others what they want to hear
- Lying, distorting the truth
- Vagueness
- Diverts attention
- Putting others on the defensive
- Total inattention
- Accusing others of misunderstanding
Criminal Thinking Tactics continued
10.Attempting to confuse others 11.Minimizes the situation 12.Agrees without meaning it 13.Silence 14.Selective attention 15.Make a big scene about minor issues 16.Putting off doing something by saying I forgot 17.Claiming that they have changed because they did something right, once!
Factorโs of peopleโs past that contribute to
criminal conduct
๏ A history of early involvement in deviant or antisocial and criminal conduct; ๏๏ Having grown up in a disruptive abusive andHaving grown up in a disruptive, abusive and neglectful family where there was lack of parental attention and supervision; ๏ Failure in school, work and leisure time; ๏ AOD disorders at an early age
Risk factors contributing to criminal conduct
๏ Criminogenic need: Dynamic risk factors or attributes of offenders that, when changed, infl ence the probabilitinfluence the probabilit y of recidi ismof recidivism
Criminogenic Needs:
๏ Selfโoriented communication patterns ๏ Need for family closeness and communication ๏๏ Need for primary social unit structures such as familyNeed for primary social unit structures such as family ๏ Involvement in antisocial and deviant behaviors ๏ Need to manipulate and to control others ๏ Receive rewards through criminal conduct ๏ Participate in environments of highโrisk for criminal conduct
Criminogenic Needs: continued
๏ Blame others for own action and behaviors ๏ Impaired moral reasoning; hold selfโserving/antisocial moral codes ๏ Overall impaired social and interpersonal skills ๏ Overt acting out of feelings of anger and resentment ๏ Thinking in a โblack and whiteโ concrete manner ๏ Need to use substances to support criminal and antisocial conduct
Question: Who are they really
hurting?hurting?
Injuries Unseen
Injury worksheet Self & Victim Families Neighbors Community Quality of Life โRipple Effectโ
How do you fix this?y
Related Self-corrections
Criminal Thinking Scales
๏ Entitlement ๏ Justification ๏ Personal Irresponsibility ๏ Power Orientation ๏ Cold Heartedness ๏ Criminal Rationalization Knight, K., Simpson, D. D., Garner, B. R., Flynn, P. M., & Morey, J. T. (in press). The TCU Criminal Thinking Scales
