TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2009//
TI  - Closing the Revolving Door?
JO  - Criminal justice and behavior
A1  - Warner, Tara D.
A1  - Kramer, John H.
SP  - 89
EP  - 109
VL  - 36
IS  - 1
N2  - The criminal justice system is often viewed as a revolving door for drug-dependent offenders due to its failure to recognize the association between addiction and offending, and repeated incarceration of drug-dependent offenders has contributed to prison overcrowding. The authors evaluated the effectiveness of Pennsylvania's drug and alcohol treatment-based intermediate punishment, Restrictive Intermediate Punishments (RIP/D&A), at reducing the risk of rearrest. Rearrest was compared at 12, 24, and 36 months postrelease. Offenders who successfully completed treatment had a lower risk of rearrest than traditionally sentenced offenders in general and county jail and probation offenders specifically. However, offenders sentenced to RIP/D&A who did not successfully complete treatment were more at risk for rearrest than traditionally sentenced offenders in general. Also, offenders sentenced to state incarceration had a lower risk of rearrest than RIP/D&A participants, regardless of program completion.<p />
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SN  - 0093-8548
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0093854808326743
ID  - ref1
ER  -