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Direct linkHolstead, Jenell; Dalton, Jim; Horne, Anita; Lamond, Diane – Child Welfare, 2010
Much controversy exists regarding the effectiveness of residential treatment. Recently, emerging research has demonstrated that community-based residential treatment has more positive long-term outcomes for youth. This article describes a community-based program that was implemented at a residential treatment agency serving youth. Targeted…
Descriptors: Residential Programs, Outcomes of Treatment, Program Effectiveness, Youth Opportunities
Bouffard, Jeffrey A.; Muftic, Lisa R. – Journal of Offender Rehabilitation, 2006
Relatively little research has examined the outcomes (either program completion or recidivism) of community service (CS) sentences among adult offenders in the United States, despite the fact that this form of alternative sanction has been employed in the United States for nearly 40 years. What little research exists, primarily from Europe,…
Descriptors: Recidivism, Sanctions, Institutionalized Persons, Public Service
McMackin, Robert A.; Tansi, Robert; Lafratta, Joseph – Journal of Offender Rehabilitation, 2004
This paper examines the recidivism data for juvenile offenders discharged from a Massachusetts residential treatment center between 1976 and 1995. The criminal histories, juvenile and adult, of 162 delinquent youth referred through the Massachusetts Department of Youth Services who left the program were reviewed. Recidivism was defined as any…
Descriptors: Recidivism, Delinquency, Cost Effectiveness, Residential Care
Leonard, Melinda A. – Journal of Offender Rehabilitation, 2004
The current study provides empirical data associated with successful program completion by examining the differing characteristics between clients who graduated from a community-based reintegration program operating in Chattanooga, Tennessee, and those who left prior to graduation. Substance dependence risk, level of education, employment or…
Descriptors: Community Based Instruction (Disabilities), At Risk Persons, Case Records, Data Interpretation
Herrenkohl, Roy C.; And Others – 1978
A study was made of the repetition of child abuse. (This repetition is sometimes referred to as recurrence or recidivism). The central feature of the research strategy was a followup on a group of families cited for abuse, conducted to determine the degree to which abuse had recurred or had been discontinued and to assess the conditions associated…
Descriptors: Case Records, Child Abuse, Child Rearing, Family Characteristics
Liau, Albert K.; Shively, Randy; Horn, Mary; Landau, Jennifer; Barriga, Alvaro; Gibbs, John C. – Journal of Community Psychology, 2004
The present study provided a randomized outcome evaluation of the psychoeducational component of the EQUIP program. The psychoeducational curriculum was implemented in a community correctional facility for adult felony offenders. The psychoeducational curriculum is designed to remedy offenders' delays in moral judgment maturity, social cognitive…
Descriptors: Control Groups, Value Judgment, Interpersonal Competence, Psychoeducational Methods
