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Treatment Retention among African Americans in the Dane County Drug Treatment Court
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Brown, Randall T.; Zuelsdorff, Megan; Gassman, Michele – Journal of Offender Rehabilitation, 2009
Drug treatment courts (DTCs) provide substance abuse treatment and case management services to offenders with substance use disorders as an alternative to incarceration. Studies indicate that African Americans less frequently complete DTC programming. The current study analyzed data from the Dane County Drug Treatment Court (n = 573). The study…
Descriptors: African Americans, Substance Abuse, Cocaine, Courts
Validation of the Inventory of Depressive Symptomatology (IDS) in Cocaine Dependent Inmates.
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Suris, Alina; Kashner, T. Michael; Gillaspy, James A., Jr.; Biggs, Melanie; Rush, A. John – Journal of Offender Rehabilitation, 2001
While the reliability and validity of Inventory of Depressive Symptomatology (IDS) scores have been established with outpatient adults being treated in community psychiatric clinics, it has not been used in special or dually diagnosed populations. Establishes internal consistency, concurrent validity, and construct validity for both the clinical…
Descriptors: Cocaine, Concurrent Validity, Construct Validity, Correctional Rehabilitation
Group Therapy for Adult Substance Abusers on Probation.
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Wagoner, Joyce L.; Piazza, Nick J. – Journal of Offender Rehabilitation, 1993
Of 220 drug or alcohol abusing adult probationers attending either Alcoholics Anonymous (AA) or Cocaine Anonymous (CA) meetings, 110 also participated in group therapy. For drug-abusing probationers, those who participated in both CA and group therapy performed significantly more favorable behaviors over 12-month follow-up than did those who…
Descriptors: Adults, Alcohol Abuse, Cocaine, Correctional Education
Race, Drug of Choice, and Adjustment to Incarceration among Male Detainees.
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Edwards, John J.; Kemp, Gina C. – Journal of Offender Rehabilitation, 1995
Explores the effects of race and drug of choice among male offenders (n=53) in a minimum security prison. Results indicate that the best adjusted offenders were blacks who identified marijuana as their drug of choice, while the most poorly adjusted offenders were blacks who identified cocaine as their drug of choice. (JPS)
Descriptors: Adjustment (to Environment), Alcohol Abuse, Blacks, Cocaine
Predicting Retention of Drug Court Participants Using Event History Analysis
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Wolf, Elaine M.; Sowards, Kathryn A.; Wolf, Douglas A. – Journal of Offender Rehabilitation, 2003
This paper presents the results of a discrete-time event-history analysis of the relationships between client and program characteristics and the length and outcome of participation in a drug court program. We identify factors associated with both successful completion and premature termination. Having an African-American case manager, being…
Descriptors: Correctional Rehabilitation, Caseworker Approach, Law Enforcement, Court Litigation
A Crack Kid Grows Up: A Clinical Case Report
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McCarthy, Sherri; Waters, Thomas Franklin – Journal of Offender Rehabilitation, 2003
During the early 1980s, use of crack cocaine by expectant mothers introduced U.S. schools and social agencies to a large cohort of children with attachment problems, attention and learning difficulties, hyperactivity and other abnormal behaviors. Research focused on the early characteristics and needs of so-called "crack kids," but little…
Descriptors: Learning Problems, Cocaine, Hyperactivity, Adolescents