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Article: No proof anger management classes help people
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- Sunday Gazette-Mail
- Article date:
- July 1, 2001
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MIAMI - The way people tell it in the anger management classes,
the problem always starts with the other guy: "My 25-year-old son
wouldn't listen to me ..." "The man at the club wouldn't let me back
in ..." "My neighbor was yelling at me about the garbage ..."
But the stories all end the same way: "...so I hit him."
There are 25 anger management classes each week for people
referred by Miami courts. Dade County judges require people who
fought with strangers to complete 8 weeks of classes, while those
whose conflicts were with people whom they knew must go for 16
weeks.
Throughout the nation, such classes have become a fixture of
modern life, run by thousands of criminal justice systems, ...