Let’s hear it for compassion – finally…
March 30, 2012 Comments Off on Let’s hear it for compassion – finally…Psychology Today: Scared Crooked
Read moreThere is only one problem: Scared Straight programs don’t work. Actually, it’s worse than that: They do more harm than good. Several well-designed studies have been conducted, in which at-risk youth were randomly assigned to take part in Scared Straight programs or to a control group that did not, and then all the kids were followed to see whether they got into trouble.