@article{ref1,
title="Examining individual characteristics and program performance to understand two-year recidivism rates among drug court participants: comparing graduates and terminators",
journal="International journal of offender therapy and comparative criminology",
year="2018",
author="Shannon, Lisa M. and Jones, Afton Jackson and Newell, Jennifer and Payne, Connie",
volume="62",
number="13",
pages="4196-4220",
abstract="Drug courts strive to break the cycle of substance use and crime by providing community-based treatment and rehabilitation. The purpose of the present study was to (a) identify significantly different factors between program participants (i.e., graduates/terminators) that may affect recidivism and (b) examine these significant individual and program performance factors associated with two-year recidivism. Secondary data were examined for a stratified random sample of drug court participants ( N = 534). Examining any two-year post-program recidivism (defined as an arrest, conviction, or incarceration), over one third (37.6%) of graduates and almost all program terminators (95.3%) had two-year post-program recidivism ( p <.001). For the overall sample, age, outpatient treatment, marital status, number of times treated for a psychiatric problem in a hospital, substance use (i.e., past-30-day cocaine use and intravenous opiate use), number of positive drug tests, and receiving any sanction/therapeutic response were associated with two-year post-program recidivism. Further analyses suggested age and outpatient treatment were particularly important for program graduates. <br><br>FINDINGS provide information for early targeting of resources to drug court participants most at risk of poorer post-program outcomes by identifying factors known at program entry and indicators during program participation.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="0306-624X",
doi="10.1177/0306624X18769602",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0306624X18769602"
}