@article{ref1,
title="Inner peace: evaluating a complementary program promoting intra-personal peace at Adelaide Women's Prison, Australia",
journal="International journal of offender therapy and comparative criminology",
year="2024",
author="Turner, Anne and Thomas, Natalie and Menih, Helena and Collins, Anthony",
volume="ePub",
number="ePub",
pages="ePub-ePub",
abstract="The Peace Education Program, created in 2012, is a complementary program with potential to supplement official rehabilitation interventions offered in correctional centers. The program promotes &quot;inner peace&quot; as an innate and universal human resource, but whilst inner peace is a key concept in positive psychology and the Good Lives Model, there is a paucity of research regarding how to operationalize and evaluate this concept. The program had not previously been the subject of independent theoretically-informed research. Drawing on a mixed methods study conducted in Adelaide Women's Prison, this article explores the impact of the program on participants' learning regarding inner peace. Participants reported a greater understanding about inner peace, which they described as contributing to a stronger sense of their identity, enhanced self-esteem and increased self-regulation skills, resulting in reductions in impulsivity and reactive aggression. The quantitative data indicated there was a significant increase in participants' subjective ratings of inner peace before the program (M = 12.08) and post-program completion (M = 14.00) (p < .001). Growth in affect-regulation and anger-management skills may contribute to reductions in offending.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="0306-624X",
doi="10.1177/0306624X241246099",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0306624X241246099"
}