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Status hearings in drug court: when more is less and less is more
(Audiences pour infraction à la législation sur les stupéfiants : quand plus c'est moins et moins c'est plus)
Auteur(s) :
FESTINGER D. S. ;
MARLOWE, D. B. ;
LEE, P. A. ;
KIRBY, K. C. ;
BOVASSO, G. ;
McLELLAN, A. T.
Année
2002
Page(s) :
151-157
Langue(s) :
Anglais
Refs biblio. :
25
Domaine :
Drogues illicites / Illicit drugs
Thésaurus mots-clés
ILS
;
PROBATION
;
JUSTICE
;
OBLIGATION DE SOINS
;
PROGRAMME
;
COMORBIDITE
;
RETENTION
Thésaurus géographique
ETATS-UNIS
Note générale :
Drug and Alcohol Dependence, 2002, 68, (2), 151-157
Note de contenu :
fig.
Résumé :
ENGLISH :
We examined the effects of increasing the number of times misdemeanor drug court clients appeared before a judge for judicial status hearings. Our previous findings showed no main effect of increased hearings during the first 14 weeks of the program. The present study examined participants' discharge status in the program, and also explored potential interactions between client characteristics and the frequency of judicial status hearings on outcomes. Results revealed no main effects for hearing frequency on graduation status. Drug offenders who satisfied DSM-IV criteria for antisocial personality disorder (APD) achieved more weeks of urinalysis-confirmed drug abstinence when assigned to more frequent judicial status hearings, whereas subjects without APD achieved more abstinence and were more likely to graduate successfully from the program when assigned to less frequent hearings. Additionally, clients with a history of substance abuse treatment achieved more weeks of abstinence when assigned to more frequent hearings. These findings lend useful guidance to drug courts. Status hearings are expensive and time consuming and should be targeted to clients who would benefit most from them. (Review's abstract.)
Affiliation :
Treat. Res. Inst., Univ. Pennsylvania, 150 South Independence Mall West, PA 19106-3475
Etats-Unis. United States.
Etats-Unis. United States.