The Economic Impact of Diverting Substance-Abusing Offenders into Treatment

1994 ◽  
Vol 40 (4) ◽  
pp. 568-588 ◽  
Author(s):  
Elizabeth Mauser ◽  
Kit R. Van Stelle ◽  
D. Paul Moberg
Keyword(s):  
Substance Abuse ◽  
Economic Impact ◽  
Criminal Behavior ◽  
Street Crime ◽  
Substance Abusing ◽  
Alternative Programs ◽  
Short Run ◽  
Abuse Treatment ◽  
Treatment Alternatives ◽  
Benefits And Costs

Recognizing the relationship between substance abuse and criminal behavior, the Wisconsin legislature in 1989 mandated the establishment of the Treatment Alternative Programs (TAP) modeled after the national Treatment Alternatives to Street Crime (TASC) program. This study evaluates the economic impact of TAP by examining the benefits and costs and cost-effectiveness of diverting offenders from the criminal justice system into substance abuse treatment. The results suggest that the benefits of TAP outweigh its costs in the short run and TAP costs less than incarcerating offenders.

Recidivism to the Criminal Justice System of Substance-Abusing Offenders Diverted into Treatment

1994 ◽  
Vol 40 (2) ◽  
pp. 175-196 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kit R. Stelle ◽  
Elizabeth Mauser ◽  
D. Paul Moberg
Keyword(s):  
Cost Effective ◽  
Street Crime ◽  
Substance Abusing ◽  
Alternative Programs ◽  
Program Cost ◽  
Court Records ◽  
Drug Crime ◽  
Substance Abusing Offenders ◽  
Treatment Alternatives

In 1989, Wisconsin funded Treatment Alternative Programs (TAP), based on the Treatment Alternatives to Street Crime (TASC) model, to provide treatment alternatives in lieu of imprisonment for substance-abusing offenders. TAP's goal is to break the offender's drug/crime cycle, using a case management model. Follow-up studies assessed TAP participant recidivism over an 18-month period. Client recidivism information since admission to TAP was obtained from numerous public sources, including probation/parole and court records. Results strongly suggest that offenders completing TAP are significantly less likely to recidivate than offenders not completing the program. Cost analyses suggest TAP can be more cost-effective than incarceration.

“I TAKE CARE OF MY KIDS”

1999 ◽  
Vol 13 (3) ◽  
pp. 347-363 ◽  
Author(s):  
PHYLLIS L. BAKER ◽  
AMY CARSON
Keyword(s):  
Substance Abuse ◽  
Active Avoidance ◽  
Negative Impact ◽  
Cultural Knowledge ◽  
Substance Abusing ◽  
Substance Abuse Treatment Program ◽  
Treatment Groups ◽  
Semistructured Interviews ◽  
Women’S Perceptions ◽  
Abuse Treatment

This article examines 17 substance-abusing women's perceptions of their mothering practices in the context of a residential substance-abuse treatment program for women with children and pregnant women. Using in-depth semistructured interviews and observations of treatment groups, the participants' cultural knowledge about mothering is explored. Although the women in this study described how their substance-abusing lifestyle had a negative impact on their children, they also detailed practices that illustrated that they felt capable as parents. The women were silent about how race, gender, or class arrangements affected their lives; their stories, however, showed active avoidance and manipulation of the contemporary ideology of mothering.

Persistence in Turning to Faith as a Predictor of Drug Use and Criminality among Drug Court Clients

2008 ◽  
Vol 38 (4) ◽  
pp. 1207-1224 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jamieson L. Duvall ◽  
Michele Staton-Tindall ◽  
Carrie Oser ◽  
Carl Leukefeld
Keyword(s):  
Substance Abuse ◽  
Substance Use ◽  
Substance Abuse Treatment ◽  
Criminal Behavior ◽  
Drug Court ◽  
Therapeutic Process ◽  
Temporal Stability ◽  
Treatment Needs ◽  
Addiction Severity ◽  
Abuse Treatment

Faith-based beliefs are associated with and considered to be a vital component in enhancing the efficacy of substance abuse treatment and recovery. However, relatively little empirical information has been accumulated on the temporal stability of individuals' use of faith and its importance before and following initiation of the therapeutic process. The current study examined persistence in turning to faith across time as a predictor of substance use, criminal behavior, and perceived addiction severity in a sample of 500 Kentucky Drug Court participants. Results suggest that when modeling variance in faith, which persists across the two-year span of Drug Court involvement as a latent construct, greater persistence in one's faith predicts decreases in substance use frequency measured at the final 24-month interview. The latent faith construct was marginally related to differences in 24-month criminal behavior and was not associated with perceptions of addiction severity. Results are discussed for substance abuse treatment needs and recovery.

scholarly journals Significant Others in Substance Abusers’ Change Talk During Motivational Interviewing Sessions in the Finnish Probation Service

2014 ◽  
Vol 0 (0) ◽  
Author(s):  
Harri Sarpavaara
Keyword(s):  
Substance Abuse ◽  
Motivational Interviewing ◽  
Substance Abusers ◽  
Significant Others ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Substance Abusing ◽  
Change Talk ◽  
Probation Service ◽  
Abuse Treatment ◽  
Service Data

AbstractAIMS – This article explores the meanings substance-abusing clients attach to family and friendships during motivational interviewing (MI) sessions in Probation Service. DATA – The analyses are based on videotaped and transcribed data consisting of 82 MI sessions. This database involves the first two counseling sessions of 41 client-counselor pairs. Sessions were videotaped in 12 Probation Service offices in Finland between 2007 and 2009. METHODS – The analysis relies on coding of client’s change talk utterances and qualitative semiotic framework. RESULTS – The meanings of the significant others were diverse from the point of view of the client’s motivation: family appeared as a support for change, an aspiration, a sufferer, or an obstacle to change; and friendship appeared as an obstacle to change, a surmounted obstacle, a cause to change, or a support to change. CONCLUSIONS - Significant others and their quality are important and diverse factors that promote or hinder change in substance abuser’ change talk. Thus, it is suggested that the meaning of significant others should not be overlooked in MI and other substance abuse treatment.

Who Dropped Who?: An Analysis of School Dropouts Among Substance Using Populations

2015 ◽  
Vol 37 (1) ◽  
pp. 55-59
Author(s):  
Kristin Hedges
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Substance Abuse ◽  
Mental Health Service ◽  
Adolescent Girls ◽  
Treatment Time ◽  
Substance Abusing ◽  
Community Life ◽  
School Dropouts ◽  
Recovery Support ◽  
Abuse Treatment

When I was a researcher and applied anthropologist for five years at the Southwest Institute for Research on Women in Tucson, Arizona, my specific role was to work with substance abusing adolescent girls. Our team was awarded grants from the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Service Administration (SAMHSA) for improving health education and substance abuse recovery support. Part of my responsibilities was to connect with the youth while they were in residential substance abuse treatment, help them develop a recovery plan for when they returned to their community, and offer recovery support to them in the community after they were released from treatment. Time and time again I was exasperated with systematic barriers that the youth would confront when they returned to community life (Hedges 2012). This article discusses the barriers impacting the processes for youth re-enrollment in school after treatment.

scholarly journals Benefits and costs of substance abuse treatment programs for state prison inmates: results from a lifetime simulation model

2011 ◽  
Vol 21 (6) ◽  
pp. 633-652 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gary A. Zarkin ◽  
Alexander J. Cowell ◽  
Katherine A. Hicks ◽  
Michael J. Mills ◽  
Steven Belenko ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Substance Abuse ◽  
Substance Abuse Treatment ◽  
Simulation Model ◽  
Treatment Programs ◽  
Prison Inmates ◽  
State Prison ◽  
Abuse Treatment ◽  
Benefits And Costs
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