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McRee, Nick; Drapela, Laurie A. – Crime & Delinquency, 2012
Judicial sanctions are used by drug courts to encourage clients to comply with program requirements. However, few studies have explored the application of sanctions in drug courts or the relationship between sanctions and drug court graduation. This article reports the results of a study of sanctions as applied in a drug court in southwest…
Descriptors: Substance Abuse, Intervention, Graduates, Sanctions
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Mauricio, Anne M.; Little, Michelle; Chassin, Laurie; Knight, George P.; Piquero, Alex R.; Losoya, Sandra H.; Vargas-Chanes, Delfino – Journal of Youth and Adolescence, 2009
The current study modeled trajectories of substance use from ages 15 to 20 among 1,095 male serious juvenile offenders (M age = 16.54; 42% African-American, 34% Latino, 20% European-American, and 4% other ethnic/racial backgrounds) and prospectively predicted trajectories from risk and protective factors before and after controlling for time spent…
Descriptors: Sanctions, Adolescents, Substance Abuse, Young Adults
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Haapanen, Rudy; Britton, Lee; Croisdale, Tim – Crime & Delinquency, 2007
This study is an examination of persistent offending and its implications for the understanding and investigation of desistance and career length. Persistence, especially as it is operationalized using official measures, is characterized as fundamentally a measure of resistance to formal social control: continued crime in the face of increasingly…
Descriptors: Sanctions, Crime, Correctional Institutions, Social Control