Legal Pressure and Retention
in Residential Treatment Programs

Matthew L. Hiller, Ph.D., Kevin Knight, Ph.D., Kirk M. Broome, Ph.D., & D. Dwayne Simpson, Ph.D.
Texas Christian University

Paper presented at the
American Society of Criminology (CPDD) Annual Meeting, San Diego.
(November, 1997).

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Legal Pressure and Retention in Residential Treatment Programs

Abstract

Background

Sample

Criminal Justice Involvement for Long-Term Residential Treatment (1969-1993)

Method

Legal Pressure Index (also see Anglin, Brecht, & Maddahian, 1989)

Logistic HLM Regression Results Predicting 90-Day Retention

Legal Pressure and 90-Day Retention Rates By Percentage of Caseload Under CJ Supervision

Summary

Author: Drs. Matthew Hiller, Kevin Knight, Kirk Broome, and Dwayne Simpson

WWW Document: (1997, November). URL:
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Other information: The Drug Abuse Treatment Outcome Study (DATOS) is NIDA’s third national evaluation of treatment effectiveness. It is based on over 10,000 admissions during 1991-1993 to 96 community-based treatment programs in 11 large U.S. cities. Findings from the three Research Centers (at NDRI, TCU, and UCLA) collaborating with NIDA on this large project are summarized in this web site.

 


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