A study of effectiveness of monotheistic integrated therapy in reduction of prisoners' delinquencies

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One of problems of Iranian prisons is high rate of delinquency and illegal behaviors happened in the prisons by prisoners. Some of these behaviors include aggression and quarrel, disobedience of laws and regulations, drug abuse, rebellion and so on. In order to study efficiency rate of monotheistic integrated therapy in reduction of prisoners' delinquency, 100 prisoners of Qom Central Prison were randomly selected and organized into two groups. One group was given monotheistic integrated therapy for 9 months and the other served as control group. Analyzing data collected from pre-test and post-test indicated that rate of delinquent and criminal behaviors in test group which was under monotheistic integrated therapy decreased to 90%, while there was no significant reduction in the control group

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