Bleick, 1989
Bleick, C. R. Influence of the Transcendental Meditation Program on criminal recidivism. Institute for Social Rehabilitation, Berkeley, California, USA, 1982.
Parolees from three high security California prisons who had learnt the Transcendental Meditation technique while in prison showed a lower recidivism rate, a higher incidence of clean records, and fewer new convictions than non-meditating controls.
- Year
- 1989
- Publication type
- Collected Papers
- Paper type
- Empirical
- Collected Papers
- Vol. 3, pp. 2151–2158
- Section
- Rehabilitation
Findings (3)
Rehabilitation of Offenders
Lower Recidivism among Prisoners
Transcendental Meditation · Longitudinal with nonrandomized controls
Fewer New Convictions among Prisoners
Transcendental Meditation · Longitudinal with nonrandomized controls
Higher Incidence of Clean Parole Records among Prisoners
Transcendental Meditation · Longitudinal with nonrandomized controls
Authors
- Catherine R. Bleick, PhD
Institute for Social Rehabilitation, Berkeley, CA, USA