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  • Who remembers Scared Straight?

    Here's probably why it wasn't effective.

    The Many Things that are Wrong with A&E’s “Beyond Scared Straight” Program

    https://jjie.org/2011/09/06/whats-wr...ared-straight/

    Big, muscular, tough guys are what the kids see during a prison tour as the inmates yell and scream at them in the hopes of scaring them out of committing a crime,” Finckenauer said. “Kids don’t see beaten down losers.” It’s a disconnect.
    Most helpful to the judges in the audience was Finckenauer’s discussion of deterrence in the general population. “There are three general types,” he said. “First, the undeterrable, the psychopaths, where deterrence doesn’t work at all. Then, at the opposite end are the Catholic nuns, who are already deterred. Finally, in the middle is the great mass of the public, those who are tempted to cheat on a tax return, to run a red light, to fudge on an application, and that’s the group that responds to deterrence to stay honest.”
    did you watch Scared Straight? Do you have a memorable episode?
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