RT Article
T1 Examining Individual Characteristics and Program Performance to Understand Two-Year Recidivism Rates Among Drug Court Participants: Comparing Graduates and Terminators
JF International journal of offender therapy and comparative criminology
VO 62
IS 13
SP 4196
OP 4220
A1 Shannon, Lisa
A1 Jones, Afton Jackson
A1 Newell, Jennifer
LA English
YR 2018
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/1665711639
AB Drug courts strive to break the cycle of substance use and crime by providing community-based treatment and rehabilitation. The purpose of the present study was to (a) identify significantly different factors between program participants (i.e., graduates/terminators) that may affect recidivism and (b) examine these significant individual and program performance factors associated with two-year recidivism. Secondary data were examined for a stratified random sample of drug court participants (N = 534). Examining any two-year post-program recidivism (defined as an arrest, conviction, or incarceration), over one third (37.6%) of graduates and almost all program terminators (95.3%) had two-year post-program recidivism (p < .001). For the overall sample, age, outpatient treatment, marital status, number of times treated for a psychiatric problem in a hospital, substance use (i.e., past-30-day cocaine use and intravenous opiate use), number of positive drug tests, and receiving any sanction/therapeutic response were associated with two-year post-program recidivism. Further analyses suggested age and outpatient treatment were particularly important for program graduates. Findings provide information for early targeting of resources to drug court participants most at risk of poorer post-program outcomes by identifying factors known at program entry and indicators during program participation.
K1 Drug court
K1 Individual characteristics
K1 Program performance
K1 Recidivism
K1 Drug court outcomes
K1 Rehabilitation
K1 Drogengerichte
K1 Therapie statt Strafe
DO 10.1177/0306624X18769602