Drug Offender Treatment in Local Corrections in California and New York, 1991-1993

The purpose of this multisite program evaluation project was to provide detailed and systematic descriptions of participants and treatment program components for a sample of five drug treatment programs in local jails. Three of the programs were located in California: Jail Education and Treatment (JET), Deciding, Educating, Understanding, Counseling, and Evaluation (DEUCE), and Rebuilding, Educating, Awareness, Counseling, and Hope (REACH). Two programs were in New York State: Substance Abuse Intervention Division (SAID) and New Beginnings. The project was aimed at assessing program completion rates as well as 12-month post-release recidivism for program participants versus matched controls. Background information obtained about the participating offenders includes sex, race, age, education, marital status, and employment status, as well as history of drug use, previous drug treatment, mental illness, inpatient/outpatient episodes, and offenses and sentencing. Additional data cover program location, dates of release from the program and from jail, type of program termination, type of residence upon release, and anticipated post-custody treatment. Information on each conviction/disposition was obtained through state criminal information systems, and state-level criminal history data (rap sheets) were collected for both the treatment and comparison groups. The unit of analysis is arrest events.

本多站点项目评估研究旨在针对本地监狱的5个药物治疗项目样本，对项目参与者及治疗方案组成要素开展详尽且系统的刻画。其中3个项目位于加利福尼亚州，分别为监狱教育与治疗项目（Jail Education and Treatment, JET）、决策-教育-理解-咨询与评估项目（Deciding, Educating, Understanding, Counseling, and Evaluation, DEUCE）以及重建-教育-认知-咨询与希望项目（Rebuilding, Educating, Awareness, Counseling, and Hope, REACH）；剩余2个项目位于纽约州，分别为药物滥用干预部门（Substance Abuse Intervention Division, SAID）与新生项目（New Beginnings）。本研究旨在评估项目参与者相较于匹配对照组的项目完成率，以及刑释后12个月的再犯率。研究收集的涉案人员背景信息涵盖性别、种族、年龄、受教育程度、婚姻状况与就业状况，同时包含药物使用史、既往药物治疗史、精神疾病史、住院/门诊治疗经历，以及涉案罪名与量刑情况。补充数据包括项目所在地、项目结业与刑满释放日期、项目终止类型、释后居住类型，以及预期的羁押后治疗安排。每项定罪/处置的相关信息均通过州级刑事信息系统获取，同时为治疗组与对照组收集了州级刑事历史数据，即犯罪记录档案（rap sheets）。本研究的分析单元为逮捕事件。