Strategies for Retaining Offenders in Mandatory Drug Treatment Programs in Kings County, New York, 1994-1995 / Douglas Young.

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Datafile

Contributor:

Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research.

Series:

ICPSR (Series) ; 2749.

ICPSR ; 2749

Language:

English

Genre:

Academic theses.

Physical Description:

1 online resource.

Edition:

ICPSR Version, 2006-03-30.

Place of Publication:

Ann Arbor, Mich. : Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2001.

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Mode of access: World Wide Web.

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Summary:

This study examined the relationship between legal pressure and drug treatment retention by assessing perceptions of legal pressure held by two groups of legally-mandated treatment clients: (1) participants of the Drug Treatment Alternative to Prison (DTAP) program operated by the Kings County (Brooklyn) District Attorney in New York City, and (2) a matched group of probationers, parolees, Treatment Alternatives to Street Crime (TASC) participants, and other court-mandated offenders attending the same community-based treatment programs used by DTAP. The Brooklyn DTAP was selected for study because of the program's uniquely coercive program components, including the threat of a mandatory prison term for noncompliance. The goals of this project were (1) to test whether DTAP participants would show significantly higher retention rates when compared to a matched sample of other legally-mandated treatment clients, and (2) to assess the role of perceived legal pressure in predicting retention for both of these groups. Data were collected from program participants through interviews conducted at admission to treatment and follow-up interviews conducted about eight weeks later. Intake interviews were conducted, on average, one week after the client's admission to treatment. The one-to-one interviews, which lasted up to two hours, were administered by trained researchers in a private location at the treatment site. The intake interview battery included a mixture of standardized measures and those developed by the Vera Institute of Justice. Data in Part 1 were collected with the Addiction Severity Index and include age, sex, race, religion, and education. Additional variables cover medical problems, employment history, detailed substance abuse and treatment history, number of times arrested for various crimes, history of incarceration, family's substance abuse and criminal hist... Cf.: http://dx.doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR02749

Contents:

Part 1: Addiction Severity Index Data; Part 2: Supplemental Background and Retention Data; Part 3: Division of Criminal Justice Services Data; Part 4: Chemical Use, Abuse, and Dependence Data; Part 5: Symptom Checklist-90-Revised Data; Part 6: Beck's Depression Inventory Data; Part 7: Circumstances, Motivation, Readiness, and SuitabilityData; Part 8: Stages of Change Readiness and Treatment Eagerness Data; Part 9: Motivational/Program Supplement Data; Part 10: Perceived Legal Coercion Data; Part 11: Community Oriented Programs Environment Data; Part 12: Treatment Services Review Data

Notes:

Title from ICPSR DDI metadata of 2006-09-15.

Start: 1994; and end: 1995.

OCLC:

61147865

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