Examining Individual Characteristics and Program Performance to Understand Two-Year Recidivism Rates Among Drug Court Participants: Comparing Graduates and Terminators

作     者：Shannon, Lisa M. Jones, Afton Jackson Newell, Jennifer Payne, Connie 

作者机构：Morehead State Univ 318 Rader Hall Morehead KY 40351 USA Kentucky Adm Off Courts Frankfort KY USA 

出 版 物：《INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF OFFENDER THERAPY AND COMPARATIVE CRIMINOLOGY》 (国际罪犯治疗和比较犯罪学杂志)

年 卷 期：2018年第62卷第13期

页      面：4196-4220页

核心收录：

学科分类：0402[教育学-心理学(可授教育学、理学学位）] 0301[法学-法学] 1002[医学-临床医学] 10[医学] 1009[医学-特种医学] 

基　　金：U.S. Department of Justice Bureau of Justice Assistance (BJA) [2011-DC-BX-0137] 

主　　题：drug court individual characteristics program performance recidivism drug court outcomes rehabilitation 

摘      要：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.