Criminal Behaviorology
Title: Right Off the BAT: The Operant Conditioning Theory Regarding Domestic Violence
Dr. Marilyn Bonem is a professor at Eastern Michigan University. In 2008, she co-wrote a study on domestic violence using the Battering Assessment Tool (BAT). In this interview we discuss with Dr. Bonem the results of her study of batterers and how we should think of domestic violence in behavioral terms as opposed to placing the offenders in vague psychological categories.
Show Highlights:
- The intervention programs for domestic violence often used, including the Duluth and CBT models.
- Viewing domestic violence from a behavioral point of view. What are the advantages to treating domestic violence as an operant behavior?
- Dr. Bonem’s work on the Battering Assessment Tool (BAT).
- The lack of a specific “personality” type for batterers, and how an improved understanding of antecedents and consequences may serve as an explanation for the phenomenon of domestic violence.
- What are the reactions of domestic violence victims to the results of BAT research? How these findings can help victims.
- Concerns about how this information is received. Is there a risk of excusing batterers or blaming the victim?
Dr. Bonem’s page with Eastern Michigan University:
https://www.emich.edu/psychology/faculty/mbonem.php
Link to the 2008 article on the BAT:
https://psycnet.apa.org/fulltext/2014-55088-006.html
Look up CrimBehav on Facebook: facebook.com/CrimBehav
Criminal Behaviorology on Blogger.
CB Podcast Sites:
https://criminalbehaviorology.podomatic.com
https://anchor.fm/criminalbehaviorology
https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/criminal-behaviorology/id1441879795?mt=2&uo=4
https://www.google.com/podcasts?feed=aHR0cHM6Ly9hbmNob3IuZm0vcy83MzY4OWFjL3BvZGNhc3QvcnNz
https://open.spotify.com/show/5VM7Sjv762u7nb91YWGczZ
https://www.breaker.audio/criminal-behaviorology
https://overcast.fm/itunes1441879795/criminal-behaviorology
https://pca.st/Q38w
https://radiopublic.com/criminal-behaviorology-GEv2AZ
https://www.stitcher.com/podcast/anchor-podcasts/criminal-behaviorology
Please write a review on any of our podcast sites listed above. Questions, comments, and requests for transcripts to:
criminalbehaviorology@gmail.com
Thank you for listening.
--- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/criminalbehaviorology/supportHazing! Hank Nuwer on the Tragic Wrongs of Passage
Lab Leak! Nicholas Wade and the Origin of SARS-CoV-2
ABA Beyond: A Panel Discussion on Crime and Behavior Analysis
My Presentation on Competency to Stand Trial Restoration Using Behavior Analysis
The Criminologist Meets the Criminal Behaviorology Podcast!!
All the (Road) Rage: The Causes of Driver Aggression
More Horror Movies Equals Less Crime: An Analysis of Movies on Crime Reduction
The FBI Files on B.F. Skinner
Familicide: Jerrod Brown Discusses Family Mass Murders
The McMartin Sexual Abuse Trial: Operant Seeing and the Dangers of Expert Opinion
Mysopedia: The Sadistic Child Murderer
Indiana’s Mayhem & Murder: Historical True Crime in the Hoosier State
Child Welfare: Behavior Analysis Metrics (BAM) on Abuse, Neglect, and Family Preservation
Genes and Behavior - 4.25.18
Eating at Us: Cannibalism in History, Legend and in the Animal World
The Sylvia Likens Case: The Infamous Indiana Torture Slaying
The Effect of Nurture: Tony Biglan Discusses the Importance of a Positive Environment
My Presentation to the Arizona Association for Behavior Analysis (AZABA)
Kids, Cars and Danger: Hot Car Deaths and Human Memory
Two MORE Speakers on Behavior Analysis (Novel Uses of ABA - Part II)
Create your
podcast in
minutes
It is Free
The Poetry of Science
Behavioral Grooves Podcast
Hidden Brain
Something You Should Know
The Science of Happiness