Gender-Sensitive Substance Abuse Treatment and Arrest Outcomes for Women

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• 作者：Wendy B. Kissin ; Zhiqun Tang ; Kevin M. Campbell ; Ronald E. Claus ; Robert G. Orwin
• 关键词：Gender-sensitive treatment ; Drug abuse treatment ; Women offenders ; Arrest ; Criminal justice outcomes
• 刊名：Journal of Substance Abuse Treatment
• 出版年：March, 2014
• 年：2014
• 卷：46
• 期：3
• 页码：332-339
• 全文大小：303 K

文摘

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 2 years before- to 2 years after treatment, above and beyond the reduction in arrests due to treatment alone. Implications and directions for future research are discussed.