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u/shafable · 1 pointr/ExCons

I have 0 experience with incarceration, but I have loads of experience with books. Not sure his interests, but here are a few books I adore:

The Lies of Locke Lamora - Basically an Ocean's 11 heist story set in a world similar to Game of Thrones.

The Name of the Wind - (from the Amazon description) The riveting first-person narrative of a young man who grows to be the most notorious magician his world has ever seen.

Cosmos - Carl Sagan saw the best in our species. This book is what the TV series was based on.

I would encourage your friend to read text books as well while he is inside as well. Pick a topic they have an interest in, and find an older textbook on the subject. For me that would be this book. Not a topic I was educated on, but something I have an interest in.

Thank you for supporting your friend!

u/Microblogula · 2 pointsr/ExCons

Heres a link to the book, "Marked," by the sociologist, Devah Pager, who did the study. Its a really great book.

http://www.amazon.com/Marked-Race-Crime-Finding-Incarceration/dp/0226644847

u/GrinninGremlin · 1 pointr/ExCons

Very interesting comments. Talking to someone with first hand observations is so much more enlightening than someone who has merely read about this from a textbook.

There are a few pieces of your reply that I wanted to respond to. One was where you mentioned "wallowing in humility and self-loathing" (aka "Zero State" Thinking) and the other was "after a few years in prison learning about what lead to the life choices..."

Both of those statements I agree with...and I agree with them even more strongly when considered together. If all a person does is sit in prison and express remorse, they will emerge with a well practiced and highly polished way of expressing remorse...but not necessarily changed thinking. On the other hand, someone who actually focuses on the choices that lead them to commit their crime will have spent...or you could say "invested" their time in preventing the main cause of recidivism (committing crime). Asking which is "most important" is somewhat like asking which wheel of a bicycle is most important. They both are, but education is a mass application solution. Curriculum can be designed and delivered with group testing to confirm absorption. But changed thinking is much harder to gauge because it requires closer individual assessment due to the fact that the participants have the "inertia" of their patterned thinking fighting against change....and hence are more inclined to say what they think their instructors wish to hear as this allows recognition of achievement without exerting the difficult effort of actual change. This is another of Samenow's thinking errors called "Failure to Endure Adversity."

Finally, I'd like to offer you a link to a summary of the most common thinking errors:
http://www.recoveryabt.org/resources/groupMaterials/Thinking%20Errors%20List.pdf

I think you will find it a very eye opening exercise to just observe the students and see how those same patterns come up again and again and again. When I first read vol 2 of his book series "the Criminal Personality" I couldn't put it down.
https://www.amazon.com/Criminal-Personality-Change-Process-II/dp/0876687710/ref=sr_1_5?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1501019221&sr=1-5