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Article: Do anger-management classes do what supporters promise? Do anger- management classes really work?
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- Oakland Tribune
- Article date:
- December 10, 2006
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In April, Minh Phu Le completed court-ordered anger-management
classes after he was arrested for slashing a couch with scissors and
then pushing a woman down, scratching her face.
While on probation, he was arrested again last month for
allegedly choking the mother of his 2-year-old daughter, Skyla.
Now the San Jose man stands accused of a third crime -- fatally
poisoning Skyla last week in an act of revenge against her mother.
In many ways, Le represents the paradox of court-mandated anger
counseling.
Do the classes actually reduce anger? Or are the programs viewed
by defendants as merely a way to avoid time behind bars?