TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2024//
TI  - Inner peace: evaluating a complementary program promoting intra-personal peace at Adelaide Women's Prison, Australia
JO  - International journal of offender therapy and comparative criminology
A1  - Turner, Anne
A1  - Thomas, Natalie
A1  - Menih, Helena
A1  - Collins, Anthony
SP  - ePub
EP  - ePub
VL  - ePub
IS  - ePub
N2  - 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 "inner peace" 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>
LA  - en
SN  - 0306-624X
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0306624X241246099
ID  - ref1
ER  -