For whom does prison-based drug treatment work? Results from a randomized experiment

Welsh, Wayne N.; Zajac, Gary; Bucklen, Kristofer Bret

doi:10.1007/s11292-013-9194-z

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“…The impact of aftercare in reducing rates of re-arrest was also discussed in five more of the twelve studies that examined rates of re-incarceration. The two studies with contradictory findings [ 32 , 33 ] concluded that TCI was only marginally more effective in reducing incarceration than an alternate, less intensive substance misuse treatment.…”

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Therapeutic Community Treatment of an Inmate Population with Substance Use Disorders: Post-Release Trends in Re-Arrest, Re-Incarceration, and Drug Misuse Relapse

Galassi

Mpofu

Athanasou

2015

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This systematic literature review maps the evidence for the effectiveness of the therapeutic community interventions (TCI) in reducing re-arrest, re-incarceration or drug misuse following release from prison, including the extent to which these effects are retained over time. The databases searched for the review included PsychINFO, Medline and Scopus and reference lists from relevant articles published between 2007 and 2014. Only quantitative studies that examined the effectiveness of TCI for a prisoner population with drug dependence at the time of initial incarceration were considered. Fourteen studies were identified for inclusion in the review. Three-quarters of the studies reported TCI were effective in reducing rates of re-incarceration. About 70% of studies that examined follow-up rates of drug misuse relapse found TCI effective in reducing rates of drug misuse amongst participants. TCI participation reduced re-arrests events in 55% of the studies. Results suggest TCI effective in the short-term rather than longer term for reducing rates of re-incarceration among participants, and to a slightly lesser extent, drug misuse relapse.

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Therapeutic Community Treatment of an Inmate Population with Substance Use Disorders: Post-Release Trends in Re-Arrest, Re-Incarceration, and Drug Misuse Relapse

Galassi

Mpofu

Athanasou

2015

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“…Often, the substance use treatment that is offered in correctional facilities is educational in nature, lacking in the clinical depth required to attend to the needs of people with well‐established drug use (Taxman et al, ). This is surprising given that extensive research has shown that in criminal justice populations, various modalities of substance use treatment reduce both substance use and criminal justice system involvement (Chandler et al, ), including therapeutic communities (TCs), drug courts (Bahr, Masters, & Taylor, ; Harvey, Shakeshaft, Hetherington, Sannibale, & Mattick, ; Lurigio, ), cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT; Bahr et al, ; Barnes, Hyatt, & Sherman, ), medication‐assisted treatment (Lee et al, ; Kinlock, Gordon, Schwartz, Fitzgerald, & O'Grady, ; Sharma et al, ), outpatient group counseling (Welsh, Zajac, & Bucklen, ), and meditation (Bowen et al, ; Himelstein, ). Despite demonstrated efficacy, Lurigio () cautions that substance use treatment is not a cure‐all and that treatment must meet the diverse needs of people in the criminal justice system, while also recognizing the chronic and often enduring nature of substance use problems.…”

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“…Numerous studies within the criminal justice setting have demonstrated that intensive treatment followed by continuing care is effective in reducing substance use and criminal justice involvement (Lurigio, ; Welsh et al, ), and is also cost‐effective (McCollister et al, 2003). For example, one study found that people who were randomly assigned to a TC and completed aftercare experienced reduced re‐incarcerations 1 year after prison release as compared with both those who were randomly assigned to TC and did not compete aftercare and those who were randomly assigned to mental health treatment in prison (Sacks, Sacks, McKendrick, Banks, & Stommel, ).…”

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Effect of continuing care for people with cocaine dependence on criminal justice sentences

Wimberly

2018

Behavioral Sci & The Law

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While continuing care for substance use treatment has been associated with reduced involvement in the criminal justice system, much of this research lacks random assignment to continuing care and so is limited by self-selection bias. This study sought to determine the impact of adding telephone-based continuing care to intensive outpatient programs on criminal justice outcomes for people with cocaine dependence. In three continuing care studies, spanning 1998-2008, participants were randomly assigned to an intensive outpatient program or an intensive outpatient program plus a telephone-based continuing care intervention. Cocaine-dependent participants from these three studies were included in the analyses, with outcomes derived from a dataset of jurisdiction-wide criminal sentences from a state sentencing agency. Multiple logistic regression was employed to examine the odds of a criminal conviction occurring in the 4 years after enrollment in a continuing care study. The results showed that, controlling for a criminal sentence in the previous year, gender, age, and continuing care study, people with cocaine dependence randomized to an intensive outpatient program plus a telephone-based continuing care intervention had 54% lower odds (p = 0.05, odds ratio = 0.46, 95% CI: 0.20-1.02) of a criminal sentence in the 4 years after enrollment in the continuing care study, compared with those randomized to an intensive outpatient program alone. We can conclude that adding telephone monitoring and counseling to intensive outpatient programs is associated with fewer criminal convictions over a 4-year follow-up period compared with intensive outpatient programs alone.

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“…A program in Minnesota targeting high risk offenders with supplemental case planning, housing, employment, mentoring, cognitive-behavioral programming, and transportation assistance services reduced the risk of revocation by 28%, and the risk of reconviction by 43% (Clark 2015); (also see the meta-studies Landenberger and Lipsey 2005, Visher, Winterfield et al 2005, Koehler, Lösel et al 2013. Special, intense treatment for drug offenders ("drug courts") had a significant reducing effect on recidivism in Baltimore (Gottfredson, Najaka et al 2006) and in Birmingham, Alabama, Jacksonville, Florida, and Tacoma, Washington (Walters 2016), but not in Wilmington, Delaware (Marlowe, Festinger et al 2014) and in Pennsylvania (Welsh, Zajac et al 2014); (also see the meta-analyses on measures specifically targeting sexual offenders by Schmucker 2005, Schmucker andLösel 2015).…”

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Experimental criminal law: a survey of contributions from law, economics, and criminology

Engel¹

2018

Empirical Legal Research in Action

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In three distinct disciplines, crime and punishment are studied experimentally: in empirical legal studies, in experimental economics, and an experimental criminology. These three disciplines have surprisingly little interaction. The current paper surveys the rich evidence, and discusses the methodological reasons for running experiments on these issues, the limitations of the method, and how they can be mitigated.

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For whom does prison-based drug treatment work? Results from a randomized experiment

Cited by 33 publications

References 72 publications

Therapeutic Community Treatment of an Inmate Population with Substance Use Disorders: Post-Release Trends in Re-Arrest, Re-Incarceration, and Drug Misuse Relapse

Therapeutic Community Treatment of an Inmate Population with Substance Use Disorders: Post-Release Trends in Re-Arrest, Re-Incarceration, and Drug Misuse Relapse

Effect of continuing care for people with cocaine dependence on criminal justice sentences

Experimental criminal law: a survey of contributions from law, economics, and criminology

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