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Outcome Assessment of Correctional Treatment (OACT)

Publication year: 2003 | Cataloged on: Oct. 31, 2006

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  • 020052

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  • 2003
  • 57 pages.

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ANNOTATION: An "examination of recidivism following treatment in a 6-month modified TC [therapeutic community] serving probationers in a large metropolitan area in Texas" is provided (p. 2). Sections found in this report are: abstract; executive summary; background; method; results according to social functioning, treatment dropout, and recidivism; and discussion. While this community-based residential modified TC had limited impact on participant rearrest during the first year after release, their rearrest rate during the second year drops significantly from 17% to 4%.
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