Reaping What You Sew, or I Told You So.

Anger courses failing violent inmates: "Anger management is only going to assist people who have difficulty in regulating their emotions, such as in cases of domestic violence," Riley, the man who heads psychological services in our prisons, said. He said Corrections has been re- thinking its approach and has developed high intensity programmes that will be more effective with people with anti-social tendencies who have histories of violence. "

... and indeed, superficially anger management is to do with helping those with impulse problems, not those for whom it is a calculated means to an end ... but then, how effective is the former (anger management) before looking at adding what must, in large part, be another talk therapy of further questionable effectiveness? Can these people really be 'talked' out of their extreme behaviour ... it would appear that teachers are quite unsuccessful at doing this ... it would also appear that psychological services in our prisons are quite unsuccessful at doing this as is testified by a reimprisonment rate of 29% after 12 months and 37% after 24 months following release ... and
Serious violent/sexual offenders constitute about 40% of the prison population at any one time and it is well known that criminal behaviour passes down through the different generations of a family?

... and the genesis of this extreme behaviour?
Sweden's no-smacking Nivarna had produced an increasingly violent child population since it's introduction. Direct child to child violence had increased by 489% since Sweden criminalised parental smacking of children for the purposes of discipline. What's worse, is that Sweden "now has one of the worst assault and sexual violence rates in the EU" according to a European Crime and Safety Safety Report commissioned by the UN and European Commission.
This empowerement of children through legislation that correction for unacceptable behaviour is illegal has already resulted in ...
Children too young to be prosecuted have been implicated in more than 8500 crimes in one year, and police say they are often powerless to intervene. It is consequently little wonder that this problem is manifest across other situations - Teachers meet over violence - in which those in charge of their care are powerless to effect that responsibility ("Police were called after a nine-year-old boy went berserk at a Palmerston North primary school leaving teachers fearing for their safety").

... and at the same time as this disempowerment of caregiver, logically one would expect an increase in impulsive excess, hence ...
According to The Swedish Daily, there has been a 14% increase in child abuse cases in 2006 compared with 2005 figures.
This backs up earlier research showing that child abuse increased 489% in the 13 years following a ban on smacking, and assaults by minors against minors increased 672%. Which of course provides a substantive base for effective functioning as a 'constructive member of society,' probably something to do with having acquired a reasonable level of 'rule governed behaviour,' which is sort of basic to society ... instead we have a 'vicious circle' establishing as is evidenced by dad4justice (on NZ Conservative) ...
My friend works in a child care center - pre school kids in Christchurch and they have had to call police three times this year to help them settle out of control children ? What the hell is going on ?
Monday, October 1, 2007 4:58:00 PM NZDT

But then Christchurch is the 'heart' of ritualised child sexual abuse in NZ ... and unfortunately this concern for the consequences of their actions in intervening on themselves, before intervening to protect the welfare of their charges, this abrogation of basic responsibility as a teacher or caregiver, will at some time have horrendous ramifications ... this action or inaction violates one of the principal requirements of schools, 'to provide a safe environment.'
... and of the future?

Violent crime increasing - police figures
Offences involving violence were up by 4 per cent in the 12 months to June, while offences against property rose by 8 per cent ... Murders dropped from 59 in the year to June 2006, to 50 in the year to June ... this is no cause for glee at all however, for while there remains a high and increasing level of violence, a decrease in murder rates can only be fortuity ... and while there are people, who appear to have the 'ear of our politicians,' who feel they can talk these people out of their excesses at the same time as protecting them (as children and mitigatory factors) from explicit consequences for their excesses ... then violent crime will keep increasing ... we have sewn the seeds in such fertile fields, it is inevitable.