RT Article
T1 Pretrial Detainees, Sentenced Prisoners, and Treatment Motivation
JF International journal of offender therapy and comparative criminology
VO 63
IS 15/16
SP 2693
OP 2712
A1 Weinrath, Michael
A1 Carrington, Jillian
A1 Tess, Caroline
LA English
YR 2019
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/1686059248
AB A dilemma for corrections practitioners is treatment for pretrial detainees. They are innocent until proven guilty and are not required to take treatment, but many may benefit from intervention. To assess the general level of treatment interest and potential differences, a sample of 221 male remand and sentenced Canadian provincial prisoners completed several Client Evaluation of Self and Treatment (CEST) scales. Prisoner treatment motivation and its correlates were assessed by examining univariate, bivariate, and multivariate effects for demographic attributes, legal factors, risk, perceptions of personal/family/pressure for treatment, and depression. It was found that about 36% to 40% of study subjects expressed moderate to strong motivation for treatment. Age, pressure, and depression were the only correlates consistently associated with treatment motivation. There were no differences found between remand and sentenced prisoners. Results indicated that pretrial detainees have a definite interest in undertaking programming.
K1 Remand
K1 Pretrial detention
K1 Treatment motivation
K1 Jail
K1 Rehabilitation
K1 Prisoner classification
DO 10.1177/0306624X19857665