Psychology 2042A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Nicotine, Amygdala, Mythbusters

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 2042A/B
• Professor: St Pierre Jeff

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Research methods: he used qualitative approach, data collection: content analysis of journal entries (family, violence, drugs, sex, world view/future, racism, friends freedom, reform, influences of incarceration, personal experiences, personal observations, no filter didn"t tell anyone that he was doing research and let inmates say whatever they wanted, content analysis of the journals they did, natural division of categories, either they wrote a lot about a specific category, provincial school records, analysis of previous studies and forensics lit on the topic of being studied. Conclusions: personal opinion: many of the 16 18 year old men and women i worked with were beyond rehabilitation but efforts should still be taken to reform their destructive ways, provided our treatment efforts are not na ve that such efforts take into account the variety of factors that contribute and contributed to how they got were they were, positive change may be possible, the deleterious affects of incarceration: rehabilitation in prison is severely compromised.