There is a substantial link between victimisation and aggression, according to the literature. Victimization and violence against women often continue when they are in custody, since they may be subjected to sexual and physical assault as a result of interpersonal ties created in jail, conflict with other inmates, and custody personnel. Because the majority of violence treatment programmes and research have focused on men, it is critical that services be tailored to the needs of women who commit violence. Beyond Violence (BV) was created to fill a void in violence prevention programming for women involved in the legal system who had been victims or perpetrators of violence. The new study improves on prior BV research by using an experimental design to systematically analyse the impact of the peer-facilitated model of the BV programme on women in prison's mental health and anger/aggression. The intervention and study were done with the help of women who volunteered. The 20-session BV condition or the waitlist control (WC) condition were assigned to the participants. All 145 participants were given a pre-intervention (Time 1) and post-intervention (Time 2) survey that contained validated measures for depression, anxiety, PTSD, anger/aggression, and emotional dysregulation. At Time 1, preliminary evaluations of background variables and pre-intervention outcome scores revealed no significant differences between the groups, indicating that randomization worked. Separate ANCOVAs were run for each of the 13 outcomes, using the study participants' pre-test scores as the covariate and group assignment as the independent variable. The data showed that the BV individuals had significant reductions in the most of the outcome measures at the post-intervention evaluation when compared to the WC participants, indicating that the hypotheses were mostly validated. Future research should look into the benefits of peer-facilitated programme models, as well as post-release outcomes to track improvement over time.
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Nena Messina
Integrated Substance Abuse Programs, Semel Institute for Neuroscience and Human Behavior, Geffen School of Medicine, University of California at Los Angeles, USA.
Stacy Calhoun
Integrated Substance Abuse Programs, Semel Institute for Neuroscience and Human Behavior, Geffen School of Medicine, University of California at Los Angeles, USA.
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