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NCJ 194056
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Title:
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Evaluation of Florida's Residential Drug Treatment Program Prison Diversion Program, Final Report
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Series:
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NIJ Research Report
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Author(s):
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Richard L. Linster
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Date Published:
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1999 |
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Page Count:
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63 |
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Sponsoring Agency:
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Grant Number:
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96-CE-VX-0010 |
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Sale Source:
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National Institute of Justice/NCJRS
Box 6000
Rockville, MD 20849
United States
NCJRS Photocopy Services
Box 6000
Rockville, MD 20849-6000
United States |
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PDF |
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Agency Summary:
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Agency Summary |
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Dataset:
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http://dx.doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR02806 |
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Type:
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Program/project evaluations ; Technical assistance reports |
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Language:
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English |
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Country:
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United States |
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Annotation:
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This report presents the methodology and findings of an
evaluation of a Florida program designed to divert a substantial
fraction of nonviolent, drug-involved offenders from a prison
sentence to supervision in the community. |
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Abstract:
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The Department of Corrections contracted with service providers
for both residential and nonresidential programs. The residential
programs began taking admissions on September 1, 1991. They
involve a structured, live-in non-hospital environment that
focuses on all aspects of substance abuse rehabilitation,
including ancillary services such as vocation and education
programs. Starting with three facilities, the number increased to
six over the next few years. Nonresidential treatment programs
were made available through contracts with local service
providers. They provide therapeutic activities of varying levels
of intensity statewide. The evaluation focused on the
relationship, if any, between drug treatment and the outcome of
community supervision. Data were obtained from the corrections
management information system, which allowed for testing of the
influence of a number of variables in addition to the subjects'
drug program assignments. One section of this report describes
the process by which cases were selected for the study from the
universe of admissions to community supervision over a 5-year
period, beginning in September 1991. Another section presents the
means of a set of variables that describe each of the study's six
treatment populations. These were the covariates used in logistic
regression models to estimate an offender's probability of
success or failure during a 2-year period following admission to
supervision. The primary evaluation finding is that the
requirement of drug treatment as a condition of a
community-supervision sentence can increase probation success
rates for "drug-involved" offenders, at least over a 2-year
observation period. Compared with the rate expected in the
absence of treatment, the net effect of all programs amounted to
approximately 9 failures averted for every 100 admissions, a
reduction of about 15 percent in the expected number of failures.
8 tables and appended results of the legit model estimations |
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Main Term(s):
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Drug treatment programs |
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Index Term(s):
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Probation conditions ; Diversion programs ; Drug offenders ; Alternatives to institutionalization ; Corrections effectiveness ; Probation condition violations ; Treatment effectiveness ; NIJ final report ; Florida |
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Note:
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Dataset may be archived by the NIJ Data Resources Program at the National Archive of Criminal Justice Data |
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