Article ID | Journal | Published Year | Pages | File Type |
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10303078 | Journal of Substance Abuse Treatment | 2014 | 8 Pages |
Abstract
The present study links an empirically-developed quantitative measure of gender-sensitive (GS) substance abuse treatment to arrest outcomes among 5109 substance abusing women in mixed-gender short-term residential programs in Washington State. Frailty models of survival analysis and three-level hierarchical linear models were conducted to test the beneficial effects of GS treatment on decreasing criminal justice involvement. Propensity scores were used to control for the pre-existing differences among women due to the quasi-experimental nature of the study. Men's arrest outcomes were used to control for confounding at the program level. Results show that women in more GS treatment programs had a lower risk of drug-related arrests, and women in more GS treatment programs who also completed treatment had a significant reduction in overall arrests from 2Â years before- to 2Â years after treatment, above and beyond the reduction in arrests due to treatment alone. Implications and directions for future research are discussed.
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Authors
Wendy B. Kissin, Zhiqun Tang, Kevin M. Campbell, Ronald E. Claus, Robert G. Orwin,