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Direct linkBouffard, Jeffrey A.; Bergeron, Lindsey E. – Journal of Offender Rehabilitation, 2006
Spurred by large increases in prison populations and other recent sentencing and correctional trends, the federal government has supported the development and implementation of Serious and Violent Offender Reentry Initiatives (SVORI) nationwide. While existing research demonstrates the effectiveness of the separate components of these programs…
Descriptors: Correctional Institutions, Outcomes of Treatment, Drug Use, Program Effectiveness
Prendergast, Michael L.; Hall, Elizabeth A.; Wexler, Harry K. – Journal of Offender Rehabilitation, 2003
Evaluations of prison-based drug treatment programs typically focus on one or two dichotomous outcome variables related to recidivism. In contrast, this paper uses multiple measures of outcomes related to crime and drug use to examine the impact of prison treatment. Crime variables included self-report data of time to first illegal activity,…
Descriptors: Recidivism, Test Results, Substance Abuse, Crime
