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In contrast to the generally dismal results of various approaches to rehabilitation, these consciousness-based strategies have proven effective in preventing crime and rehabilitating offenders!
This book will introduce you to a powerful, unique approach to offender rehabilitation and crime prevention. In contrast to the generally dismal results of most rehabilitation approaches, studies covering periods of 1-15 years indicate that this new approach employing the Maharishi Transcendental Meditation (R) and TM-Sidhi programs reduces recidivism from 35-50%.
Transcendental Meditation (R) in Criminal Rehabilitation and Crime Prevention provides the reader with a theoretical overview, new original research findings, and examples of practical implementation. With this book, you will explore what motivates people to commit crimes, with emphasis on stress and restricted self-development. Then you'll examine the results and policy implications of applying these consciousness-based techniques to offender rehabilitation and crime reduction. Most chapters include tables or figures that make the information easy to understand.
Transcendental Meditation (R) in Criminal Rehabilitation and Crime Prevention does not merely review the theory behind this innovative approach to rehabilitation and prevention but also emphasizes the practical value of the programs it describes and reports how techniques and strategies based on Transcendental Meditation (R) have been put to use in a variety of settings.
This book will familiarize the reader with:
In contrast to the generally dismal results of various approaches to rehabilitation, these consciousness-based strategies have proven effective in preventing crime and rehabilitating offenders!
This book will introduce you to a powerful, unique approach to offender rehabilitation and crime prevention. In contrast to the generally dismal results of most rehabilitation approaches, studies covering periods of 1-15 years indicate that this new approach employing the Maharishi Transcendental Meditation (R) and TM-Sidhi programs reduces recidivism from 35-50%.
Transcendental Meditation (R) in Criminal Rehabilitation and Crime Prevention provides the reader with a theoretical overview, new original research findings, and examples of practical implementation. With this book, you will explore what motivates people to commit crimes, with emphasis on stress and restricted self-development. Then you'll examine the results and policy implications of applying these consciousness-based techniques to offender rehabilitation and crime reduction. Most chapters include tables or figures that make the information easy to understand.
Transcendental Meditation (R) in Criminal Rehabilitation and Crime Prevention does not merely review the theory behind this innovative approach to rehabilitation and prevention but also emphasizes the practical value of the programs it describes and reports how techniques and strategies based on Transcendental Meditation (R) have been put to use in a variety of settings.
This book will familiarize the reader with:
Part 1 INTRODUCTION AND OVERVIEW; Chapter 1 The Transcendental Meditation Program: A Consciousness-Based Developmental Technology for Rehabilitation and Crime Prevention, RACHEL S. GOODMAN, KENNETH G. WALTON, DAVID W. ORME-JOHNSON, ROBERT BOYER; Part 2 HIGHLIGHT: A COMMUNITY-BASED SENTENCING PROGRAM FOR PROBATIONERS; Chapter 2 The Enlightened Sentencing Project: A Judicial Innovation, FARROKH K. ANKLESARIA, MICHAEL S. KING; Part 3 THEORY AND REVIEW; Chapter 3 Effectiveness of the Transcendental Meditation Program in Criminal Rehabilitation and Substance Abuse Recovery: A Review of the Research, MARK A. HAWKINS; Chapter 4 Effects of the Transcendental Meditation Program on Neuroendocrine Abnormalities Associated with Aggression and Crime, KENNETH G. WALTON, DEBRA K. LEVITSKY; Part 4 ORIGINAL RESEARCH ON REHABILITATION; Chapter 5 First Prison Study Using the Transcendental Meditation Program: La Tuna Federal Penitentiary, 1971, DAVID W. ORME-JOHNSON, RICHARD M. MOORE; Chapter 6 Walpole Study of the Transcendental Meditation Program in Maximum Security Prisoners I: Cross-Sectional Differences in Development and Psychopathology, CHARLES N. ALEXANDER, KENNETH G. WALTON, RACHEL S. GOODMAN; Chapter 7 Walpole Study of the Transcendental Meditation Program in Maximum Security Prisoners II: Longitudinal Study of Development and Psychopathology, CHARLES N. ALEXANDER, DAVID W. ORME-JOHNSON; Chapter 8 Walpole Study of the Transcendental Meditation Program in Maximum Security Prisoners III: Reduced Recidivism, CHARLES N. ALEXANDER, MAXWELL V. RAINFORTH, PAUL R. FRANK, JAMES D. GRANT, CHRISTOPHER VON STADE, KENNETH G. WALTON; Chapter 9 Effects of the Transcendental Meditation Program on Recidivism Among Former Inmates of Folsom Prison: Survival Analysis of 15-Year Follow-Up Data, MAXWELL V. RAINFORTH, CHARLES N. ALEXANDER, KENNETH L. CAVANAUGH; Chapter 10 Consciousness-Based Rehabilitation of Inmates in the Netherlands Antilles: Psychosocial and Cognitive Changes, MARK A. HAWKINS, CHARLES N. ALEXANDER, FREDERICK T. TRAVIS, CARL R. T. CAMELIA, KENNETH G. WALTON, CHRISTIAN F. DURCHHOLZ, MAXWELL V. RAINFORTH; Part 5 PREVENTING CRIME AND VIOLENCE; Chapter 11 Attacking Crime at Its Source: Consciousness-Based Education in the Prevention of Violence and Antisocial Behavior, CHRISTOPHER JONES, MAWIYAH CLAYBORNE, JAMES D. GRANT, GEORGE RUTHERFORD; Chapter 12 Preventing Crime Through the Maharishi Effect, DAVID W. ORME-JOHNSON; Chapter 13 Preventing Terrorism and International Conflict: Effects of Large Assemblies of Part icipants in the Transcendental Meditation and TM-Sidhi Programs, DAVID W. ORME-JOHNSON, MICHAEL C. DILLBECK, CHARLES N. ALEXANDER; Part 6 TRANSCENDENTAL MEDITATION IN PRISONS AND PRISON SYSTEMS; Chapter 14 The Transcendental Meditation Program in the Senegalese Penitentiary System, FARROKH K. ANKLESARIA, MICHAEL S. KING; Chapter 15 Cost Savings from Teaching the Transcendental Meditation Program in Prisons, DAVID L. MAGILL;
Kenneth G Walton, David Orme-Johnson, Rachel S Goodman
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