Posted on 07/08/2013 9:57:39 AM PDT by marktwain
The results of a University of Chicago study on preventing homicide amongst young men are a start toward solving that city’s (and other cities’) plague of violence.
The National Bureau of Economic Research has released data from the university’s Crime Lab that shows that cognitive behavioral therapy—in which young people are taught to observe their thought patterns and change them—can prevent homicide, at least while the therapy is ongoing.
The theory behind the study was that a large percentage of the violent acts of young people are not planned. Instead, they occur almost instantaneously, when conflict erupts and horrible reflexes (like using a knife or a gun in a moment of rage) are triggered. If, the researchers theorized, that instant could be almost frozen in time, allowing for a bit of reflection, then a kid might walk away from a beef, rather than throwing everything away to settle it.
So the researchers, including Jens Ludwig, director of the Center, enrolled 1,400 at-risk youth, in grades seven through ten, in a 30-week program called Becoming a Man. The program used discussion groups and behavioral exercises to make the boys and young men examine how assumptions about other people and about situations and about themselves can fuel arguments and violence.
In one exercise, for example, half of the kids were given rubber balls, and the other half of the kids were told to get the balls from them. The result: wrestling matches, chase scenes and actual fights over them. But then the instructor made his point: Why hadn’t the kids without balls simply asked the other kids to toss them the balls? Why had they assumed that their partners in the exercise would refuse? Wouldn’t it have been easier to talk about the fact that the rubber balls weren’t anything to brawl
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Add this to the work of David Kennedy and we come close to what conservatives have been saying for years.
Of course, the left will never admit it.
how bout keep urban young fatherless black boys away from each other?
> cognitive behavioral therapy
Just like in “A Clockwork Orange”. They’ll have to listen to Ludwig Von with a dose of the old ultraviolet.
Father's used to instill this in boys. I didn't fly off the handle as a young man, because the reality of what my father's reaction would be gave me pause.
As usual the common denominator in criminals is the lack of an in-home biological father (or dedicated adoptive father) who provides firm guidance to developing minds.
Urban yutes have no such father and turn feral at puberty.
The preceding has been a paid advertisement from the American Association of Professional Therapists.
exactly, let us conduct mind modification to remove the homicidal tendencies.
It is time to bring back shock therapy and lobotomies while people go to the “spa,” gulag-style. (/sarc)
They think that some kind of therapy is going to work?
Yeah. That’s the ticket. Damned liberals.
In their utopian world, if we address the “root causes”, there will be no evil. In their view, society causes every problem, and if they fix the problems in society, then the problems with people will disappear.
If THAT doesn’t work, the next best thing is “therapy” of some kind. Primal Scream therapy, psychoanalysis, you name it.
They think this way because they think they can control everything. This is a basic difference between liberals and conservatives.
Liberals think that if they did something differently, taught them a certain way, sent them to a certain school, gave them a certain job, that there would be no evil in a given person.
Conservatives understand that some people just have evil in them.
This study belongs in the same circular file as the study on rehabilitation of violent and sex criminals, which assumes such criminals were ever habilitated in the first place.
This study is AKA “how can we give money to Obama donors back in Chicago?”
Want to fix Chicago? Two words, Drone Strikes.
All of this therapy seems to be an effort to replace non-existent parents..father and or mother. It was noted that this worked as long as the therapy was continuous. Can we afford to have the state run such a program on a continuous basis? What could we do to re-establish the nuclear family?
Right now we are doing everything to enable single or non-parent families..welfare, crazy money, Snap, etc. add to that replacing the blacks in the labor force with illegals.
'no time for the ol in out, in out Misses, gotta read the meter"
Conservatives understand that some people just have evil in them.
Very close but I don't think you went far enough.
Liberals think that all men are inherently good.
Conservatives know that all men are inherently evil.
It is religion and society that restrain the evil within us. The inner city black youths have (usually) no relationship with God and no supporting society. Therefore the evil comes out.
Arrest rates dropped by 44%. Phenomenal!
A year later the effect wore off. It’s as though children need constant guidance.
I do think you nailed it better, John O.
It is likely why the Founders constructed the Constitution the way they did.
Of course, they didn’t think the American people would just let their government ignore it, but...here we are.
You mean like in "Lord of the Flies"?
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