Jan 16 2008
Token Economy; Prisoners living the life of luxury?
Token Economy is a treatment program aimed at ‘unlearning’ maladaptive behaviour and replacing it with a more desirable one. It works on the principles of operant conditioning; in a nutshell, people will do good things if you reinforce them. The idea is that prisons draw up a list of all the actions they would like to see the inmates [...]
