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- Title
Empathy-Focused Learning: Teaching Criminal Justice Students to Care.
- Authors
Keena, Linda; Krieger-Sample, Laura
- Abstract
Today’s students show very little appreciation for the importance of empathy in community-based correctional treatment. This descriptive mixed-method study reports on a pilot program designed to examine how and to what extent a criminal justice education program enhanced or fostered empathy. Over a period of 7 years (2007-2014), 52 students participated in an intervention class, while 97 attended a controlled course. The study utilized a two-stage measurement technique involving a pencil and paper test of empathy and actual interviews with students. A phenomenological analysis was conducted to investigate how students understand and transform experiences into perceptions both individually and as shared meaning. A Paired Two Sample for Means t-test was computed on the Interpersonal Reactivity Index (IRI) pre- and posttest data to analyze change in the students’ perceived empathy. The intervention group scores from pretest to posttest indicated a statistically significant change in students’ empathy levels in all seven subscales. This program should serve as a model curriculum for criminal justice students.
- Subjects
EMPATHY; MIXED methods research; CRIMINAL justice education; JUSTICE administration -- Study &; teaching; COMMUNITY-based corrections
- Publication
American Journal of Criminal Justice, 2018, Vol 43, Issue 2, p389
- ISSN
1066-2316
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1007/s12103-017-9385-7