Gang Membership and Subsequent Engagement into a Drug Free Therapeutic Community

Widlitz, Michelle; Dermatis, Helen; Galanter, Marc; Bunt, Gregory

doi:10.1300/j465v28n02_05

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An Exploratory Study of Spiritual Orientation and Adaptation to Therapeutic Community Treatment

Dermatis

James

Galanter

et al. 2010

Journal of Addictive Diseases

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The purpose of this study was to determine the extent to which spiritual orientation was associated with adaptation to therapeutic community treatment. Spiritual orientation was assessed by the Spirituality Self-Rating Scale, a measure consistent with the conceptualization of spirituality typically reflected in Alcoholics Anonymous members' views. Spiritual orientation was positively correlated with acceptance of therapeutic community principles and clinical progress. Further assessment of spirituality related characteristics and their relation to treatment outcomes is important in informing the design of interventions aimed at improving progress in the therapeutic community, particularly those aspects involving the relative value of integrating the 12-Step group approach in therapeutic community programs.

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An Exploratory Study of Spiritual Orientation and Adaptation to Therapeutic Community Treatment

Dermatis

James

Galanter

et al. 2010

Journal of Addictive Diseases

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An Empirical Comparison of the Profiles of Security Threat Group Offenders with General Offenders

Leuprecht

Skillicorn

Bright

2022

Int J Offender Ther Comp Criminol

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Datasets of offender attributes, both pre-custody and in-custody, were provided by the Correctional Service of Canada with the goal of exploring whether Security Threat Group (STG) offenders (informally, gang members of various kinds) differ in any systematic way from other offenders. For pre-custody attributes, we show that the entire offender population varies along two almost independent axes, one associated with affinity for violence, and the other with affinity for substance abuse. Within this structure, STG offenders are characteristically less extreme, in either direction, than the general offender population. For approximately two dozen attributes, STG offenders, as a group, tend to have higher values; for a few, they tend to have lower values. For in-custody attributes, the entire offender population forms a triangular structure whose vertices represent: passivity; violence and troublemaking; and involvement in programs leading to partial release. The differences between the STG offender population and the general offender population are small. An offender who is placed at the high end of the propensity for violence axis and/or the high end of the substance abuse axis based on pre-custody attributes is much more likely to be involved in incidents, grievances, and violence while in custody. This may have implications for risk stratification of incoming offenders.

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An Invitation to Change? An Ethnographic Study of a Residential Therapeutic Community for Substance Use

Gosling¹

2016

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Gang Membership and Subsequent Engagement into a Drug Free Therapeutic Community

Cited by 3 publications

References 12 publications

An Exploratory Study of Spiritual Orientation and Adaptation to Therapeutic Community Treatment

An Exploratory Study of Spiritual Orientation and Adaptation to Therapeutic Community Treatment

An Empirical Comparison of the Profiles of Security Threat Group Offenders with General Offenders

An Invitation to Change? An Ethnographic Study of a Residential Therapeutic Community for Substance Use

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