RT Article
T1 Seattle’s law enforcement assisted diversion (LEAD) program: within-subjects changes on housing, employment, and income/benefits outcomes and associations with recidivism
JF Crime & delinquency
VO 63
IS 4
SP 429
OP 445
A1 Clifasefi, Seema L.
A2 Lonczak, Heather S.
A2 Collins, Susan E.
LA English
YR 2017
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/1577333292
AB 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.
K1 Intervention
K1 Policing,
K1 Substance use
K1 Harm reduction
K1 Diversion
K1 Recidivism
K1 Straftäter
K1 Behandlungsmodelle
K1 LEAD-Programm
K1 Seattle, WA
DO 10.1177/0011128716687550