RT Article
T1 What Matters More in Explaining Drug Court Graduation and Rearrest: Program Features, Individual Characteristics, or Some Combination
JF International journal of offender therapy and comparative criminology
VO 67
IS 12
SP 1211
OP 1229
A1 Breno, Alex
A1 Ramezani, Niloofar
A1 Guastaferro, Wendy
A1 Cummings, Andrew
A1 Murphy, Amy
A1 Taxman, Faye S. 1955-
A2 Ramezani, Niloofar
A2 Guastaferro, Wendy
A2 Cummings, Andrew
A2 Murphy, Amy
A2 Taxman, Faye S. 1955-
LA English
YR 2023
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/1854128000
AB This study examines the program- and individual-level factors that impact the success of drug court clients in terms of: (1) graduation; and (2) not being arrested while participating in the court program. The data consist of 848 individuals in nine drug courts. This paper discusses how different individual- and program-level factors impact the success of drug court participants. The findings suggest that individual- and program-level factors are both important in predicting program graduation and arrest during drug court participation, while controlling for participant demographics. Clients’ education, drug/alcohol usage, program staffing, and clinical standards impact program graduation while criminal history, drug/alcohol usage, number of program hours offered, program staffing, and use of rewards and sanctions predict in-program arrest. Models combining both program- and individual-level factors performed better than either alone, leading to recommendations that agencies should emphasize improving program quality while targeting clients’ needs to achieve greater success.
K1 Rearrest
K1 program graduation
K1 risk need assessments
K1 Programming
K1 hierarchical linear modeling
K1 Drug Courts
DO 10.1177/0306624X221086558