Seattle’s law enforcement assisted diversion (LEAD) program: within-subjects changes on housing, employment, and income/benefits outcomes and associations with recidivism

For repeat drug offenders, homelessness, unemployment, and lack of access to legitimate income and benefits are obstacles to community integration and quality-of-life improvement. Seattle’s Law Enforcement Assisted Diversion (LEAD) is a collaborative, prebooking diversion program that provides indiv...

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Autor principal: Clifasefi, Seema L. (Autor)
Otros Autores: Lonczak, Heather S. (Otro) ; Collins, Susan E. (Otro)
Tipo de documento: Electrónico Artículo
Lenguaje:Inglés
Publicado: 2017
En: Crime & delinquency
Año: 2017, Volumen: 63, Número: 4, Páginas: 429-445
Acceso en línea: Volltext (Resolving-System)
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Palabras clave:
Intervention
Policing,
Substance use
Harm reduction
Diversion
Recidivism
Straftäter
Behandlungsmodelle
LEAD-Programm
Seattle, WA
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Sumario:For repeat drug offenders, homelessness, unemployment, and lack of access to legitimate income and benefits are obstacles to community integration and quality-of-life improvement. Seattle’s Law Enforcement Assisted Diversion (LEAD) is a collaborative, prebooking diversion program that provides individuals suspected of low-level drug and prostitution offenses with legal assistance and harm reduction–oriented case management instead of prosecution and incarceration. We conducted this single-arm, within-subjects study to test changes in participants’ housing, employment, and income/benefits both prior and subsequent to their LEAD program referral. Findings indicated significant within-subjects improvements for LEAD participants (N = 176) across all outcomes of interest. Moreover, achieving housing and employment was associated with 17% and 33% fewer arrests during the follow-up, respectively.
ISSN:1552-387X
DOI:10.1177/0011128716687550