Citation

Wiederanders MR. Behav. Sci. Law 1992; 10(1): 141-148.

Copyright

(Copyright © 1992, John Wiley and Sons)

DOI

10.1002/bsl.2370100112

PMID

unavailable

Abstract

Postinstitutional arrests and state hospitalizations of 191 patients placed on conditional release (CONREP group) were compared to those of 44 patients released from the same California state hospital with no aftercare due to expiration of commitment terms (MAXOUT group). The two groups were not randomly determined but were comparable in demographic characteristics and rates of preprogram arrest. The CONREP group had a significantly lower community-period arrest rate than did the MAXOUT group (p <.001). Survival rate analyses, using time until arrest and time until revocation as dependent variables, suggested that revocations during the first 240 days of community re-entry reduced the potential arrest rate within the CONREP group.

RESULTS were discussed in terms of the "criminalization hypothesis" as well as the crime-preventive possibilities of the conditional release mechanism.

Language: en