Treatment Matching for Substance-Abusing Offenders:
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Main Author: Hamilton, Zachary K. (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: El Paso LFB Scholarly Pub. LLC 2011
Series:Criminal justice (LFB Scholarly Publishing LLC)
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Item Description:Acknowledgements; chapter 1: introduction; chapter 2: substance abusers and treatment in the criminal justice system; chapter 3: responsivity, matching andevaluation; chapter 4: constructing an assessment of responsivity; chapter 5: matching parameters; chapter 6: model generation and post-hoc comparisons; chapter 7: halfway house comparisons; chapter 8: proposed matching strategy; chapter 9: a discussion of matchingand responsivity; chapter 10: utility of findings andmethod of assessment; appendix 1: theoretical considerationsfor the four-class solution
Appendix 2: drug and alcohol programtreatment inventory (dapti)appendix 3: policy and servicescharacteristics inventory (pasci); appendix 4: logistic regression models; references; index
Hamilton focuses on a population of offenders released from prison to halfway houses. Based on assessments administered prior to admission, intervention groups were established using Latent Class Analysis, which identified several classes or?types? of substance abusing offenders. The resulting classification was utilized to assess responsivity among four program orientations: 12-Step, Cognitive-Behavioral, Rehabilitation and Therapeutic Communities. A matching strategy was then created from class-program interactions. This study is first to examine typology construction as a method for improv
Includes bibliographical references (pages 297-313) and index
Physical Description:1 Online-Ressource (327 pages)
ISBN:1593324871
1593326807
9781593324872
9781593326807