TY  - BOOK
AU  - Lipton,Douglas S.
ED  - National Institute of Justice U.S.
TI  - The effectiveness of treatment for drug abusers under criminal justice supervision
T2  - Research report
PY  - 1996///]
CY  - Washington, D.C.
PB  - U.S. Dept. of Justice, Office of Justice Programs, National Institute of Justice
KW  - Drug abuse
KW  - Treatment
KW  - United States
KW  - Local
KW  - Abuso de Drogas y Crimen
KW  - Estados Unidos
KW  - LEMB
KW  - Toxicómanos
KW  - Rehabilitación
KW  - Prisioneros
KW  - Abuso de drogas
KW  - Abuso de Drogas
KW  - Tratamiento
KW  - Eatados Unidos
KW  - Drug abuse and crime
KW  - Prisoners
KW  - Drug use
N1  - "Presentation at the 1995 conference on criminal justice research and evaluation."; Shipping list no.: 96-0134-P; "November 1995."; Includes bibliographical references (p. 56-64)
N2  - The proportion of people in the criminal justice system who are substance abusers is very high and has grown larger in recent years. Rehabilitation and treatment offered to prison inmates has had a checkered history in this country, however. This paper interweaves a number of themes related to these facts: the relationship of drugs to crime, the current overcrowded situation in correctional facilities, and state-of-the-art treatment approaches used with substance-abusing offenders who are in custody. The paper presents the findings of studies that have demonstrated that in-custody treatment, particularly the therapeutic community (TC) model, can be effective in preventing rearrest and in other outcomes. Moreover, with this approach, successful outcomes are positively related to the amount of time spent in treatment. Several successful projects - notably Stay'n Out, Cornerstone, Amity Prison TC, Key-Crest, KEEP, and TASC - are highlighted. The CDATE project, a 25-year update of the author's study of the effectiveness of correctional treatment, is also described
ER  -