MUSIC AND RELAXATION AS AN EFFECTIVE TOOL TO REDUCE AGGRESSION OF FEMALE OFFENDERS

Abstract

Although since 2015, there is a decrease in crime rate in India yet crime is one of the major issues which keeps catching the attention of mass. There are many causes of committing crime but aggression is one of the most significant reasons among them. Aggression, however, refers to a range of behaviours that can result in both physical and psychological harm to one self, others or objects in the environment. The expression of aggression can occur in a number of ways that include physical, verbal, mental and emotional. There are many ways to reduce aggression, like, meditation, yoga and different psychotherapies. Among these one is music and relaxation. Hence, the present research was attempted to find out the effect of music and relaxation on aggression of female offenders. For this, total 60 female prisoners (30 experimental group and 30 control group) were taken from central jail of Vadodara. Pre – post design was used and paired sample t – test was calculated. From the result, it has been found that there was no significant difference between pre and post test scores of experimental group (t = 0.475, df = 29). On the contradiction, there was significant difference in pre and post test scores of control group (t = 2.160, df =29). Hence, from the result it has been concluded that there is no significant effect of music and relaxation on female offenders