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Quitting Drugs, Quitting Crime: Reducing Probationers' Recidivism Through Drug Treatment Programs
Publication year:
1999
| Cataloged on:
Oct. 31, 2006
ANNOTATION: The effect of drug treatment program completion on the recidivism rates of those probationers identified as cocaine users was examined. Without drug treatment, probationers are nearly twice as likely to recidivate. Only 68% of identified individuals were remanded to drug treatment programs, and of these only 26% successfully completed the programs. These probationers experienced a recidivism rate of 36% compared to 74% for non-participants. Fifteen percent of successful DTP participants were re-arrested and charged with felonies compared with 56% for non-participants.