RT Article
T1 Participant Evaluation of Twelve-Step Group Linkage for Jailed Women With Alcohol Use Disorder
JF International journal of offender therapy and comparative criminology
VO 63
IS 4
SP 610
OP 623
A1 Schonbrun, Yael Chatav
A1 Kurth, Megan
A1 Johnson, Jennifer
A1 Timko, Christine
A1 Stein, Michael
LA English
YR 2019
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/1667689762
AB Jailed women are an underserved population with elevated rates of alcohol use disorders. Brief jail stays make delivery of case management and traditional alcohol treatment impractical yet women face significant reentry challenges with few help resources. Accounting for these challenges, linking jailed women with a twelve-step program volunteer for a one-on-one meeting has been hypothesized to provide a means of support that can transition with women after jail discharge. In-jail meetings are theoretically consistent with the common twelve-step practice of conducting twelve-step calls. The acceptability and content of a one-on-one, in-jail meeting with a twelve-step volunteer were explored using qualitative data collected through interviews with 72 women directly following their in-jail volunteer meeting. Participants found the meeting to be acceptable and to contain many useful elements, and content was in line with the standard twelve-step calls. Findings are encouraging both for the potential utility of the intervention and for dissemination of similar linkage approaches.
K1 Alcohol
K1 Criminal justice
K1 Linkage
K1 Women
K1 Twelve-step
DO 10.1177/0306624X18805598