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Criminal and Addictive Thinking, Exercises of Criminology

Goals of Criminal Thinking Therapy,Criminal Thinking Scope is Wide and Criminal Thinking Works in other Programs.

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Criminal and AddictiveCriminal and Addictive

ThinkingThinkingThinkingThinking

A cognitiveA cognitive--behavioral therapy approachbehavioral therapy approach

Presenter: Phillip BarbourPresenter: Phillip Barbour

Goals of Criminal Thinking Therapy

๏ƒ˜ To describe and provide examples of common criminal thinking errors in the offender pop lationpopulation. ๏ƒ˜ To help mental health and corrections practitioners and offenders become more aware of thinking errors and thinking distortions. ๏ƒ˜ To assist change agents in facilitating the criminal thinking change process.

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Criminal Thinking works in other programs

๏ƒ˜ Corrective Thinking, Domestic Violence, AODA and/or Cognitiveโ€Behavioral focus ๏ƒ˜๏ƒ˜ Adult male or female offenders ๏ƒ˜ Batterers and/or drug abusers ๏ƒ˜ 7th grade reading level is the intended target audience

The History

๏ƒ˜ Utilizes the theory and principles developed by Stanton Samenow and Yochelson ๏ƒ˜๏ƒ˜ Investigation of Criminal Behavior at St ElizabethsInvestigation of Criminal Behavior at St. Elizabeths Hospital in Washington, D.C. ๏ƒ˜ The longest clinical research of offenders in North America ๏ƒ˜ 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

๏ƒ˜ Not Receptive

๏ƒ˜ Not Self Critical

๏ƒ˜ No Disclosure

๏ƒ˜ Good at pointing out, giving feedback on faults of others ๏ƒ˜ Lies by omission

Citation: www.criminalthinking.net

2. Victim Stance

๏ƒ˜ Views self as victim (the criminal will even blame social conditions โ€œI live in the ghetto, what do you o e pectโ€)expectโ€)

๏ƒ˜ Blames others (โ€œthe cops just keep messing with meโ€)

Citation: www.criminalthinking.net

3. Views Self As A Good Person

๏ƒ˜ Focuses only on his/her positive attributes

๏ƒ˜ Fails to acknowledge his/her destructive behavior

๏ƒ˜ 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€œ
  • Doing only the minimum to get by

Citation: www.criminalthinking.net

5. Lack Of Interest In Responsible

Performance

๏ƒ˜ Responsible living viewed as unexciting and unsatisfying

๏ƒ˜๏ƒ˜ No sense of obligation

๏ƒ˜ Will respond only if he/she nets an immediate payoff

6. Lack Of Time Perspective

๏ƒ˜ Does not use past as a learning tool

๏ƒ˜ Expects others to act immediately on his/her/demands / /

๏ƒ˜ Decisions on assumptions, not facts

10. Ownership Attitude

๏ƒ˜ Perceives all things, people, objects to possess ๏ƒ˜ No concept of ownership, rights of others ๏ƒ˜ Sex for power and control โ€ not intimacy ๏ƒ˜ 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

  1. Continuously point out staff inadequacies
  2. Building self up by putting others down 3 Telling others what they want to hear3. Telling others what they want to hear
  3. Lying, distorting the truth
  4. Vagueness
  5. Diverts attention
  6. Putting others on the defensive
  7. Total inattention
  8. 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!

Factorโ€™s of peopleโ€™s past that contribute to

criminal conduct

๏ƒ˜ A history of early involvement in deviant or antisocial and criminal conduct; ๏ƒ˜๏ƒ˜ 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; ๏ƒ˜ Failure in school, work and leisure time; ๏ƒ˜ AOD disorders at an early age

Risk factors contributing to criminal conduct

๏ƒ˜ 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:

๏ƒ˜ Selfโ€oriented communication patterns ๏ƒ˜ Need for family closeness and communication ๏ƒ˜๏ƒ˜ Need for primary social unit structures such as familyNeed for primary social unit structures such as family ๏ƒ˜ Involvement in antisocial and deviant behaviors ๏ƒ˜ Need to manipulate and to control others ๏ƒ˜ Receive rewards through criminal conduct ๏ƒ˜ Participate in environments of highโ€risk for criminal conduct

Criminogenic Needs: continued

๏ƒ˜ Blame others for own action and behaviors ๏ƒ˜ Impaired moral reasoning; hold selfโ€serving/antisocial moral codes ๏ƒ˜ Overall impaired social and interpersonal skills ๏ƒ˜ Overt acting out of feelings of anger and resentment ๏ƒ˜ Thinking in a โ€œblack and whiteโ€ concrete manner ๏ƒ˜ 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 โ€œRipple Effectโ€

How do you fix this?y

Related Self-corrections

Criminal Thinking Scales

๏ƒ˜ Entitlement ๏ƒ˜ Justification ๏ƒ˜ Personal Irresponsibility ๏ƒ˜ Power Orientation ๏ƒ˜ Cold Heartedness ๏ƒ˜ Criminal Rationalization Knight, K., Simpson, D. D., Garner, B. R., Flynn, P. M., & Morey, J. T. (in press). The TCU Criminal Thinking Scales