Effects of admission and treatment strategies of DWI courts on offender outcomes.
Effects of admission and treatment strategies of DWI courts on offender outcomes.
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醉驾法庭的入院和治疗策略对罪犯结局的影响。
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10.1016/j.aap.2012.12.033
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2013
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Zold-Kilbourn,Phyllis
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Sloan,FrankA;Chepke,LindseyM;Davis,DontrellV;Acquah,Kofi;Zold-Kilbourn,Phyllis
本研究的目的是分类DWI法院的基础上的混合困难的案件参与法院（casemix严重程度）和法院和参与者之间的参与量（服务强度）。使用我们的分类类型学，我们评估了病例组合的严重程度和服务强度与项目成果的关系。我们预计，保持其他因素不变，更大的服务强度将提高程序的结果，而一个相对严重的casemix会导致更糟糕的程序outcomes. METHODS该研究使用的数据从8 DWI法院，7从密歇根州和1从北卡罗来纳州。使用双向分类系统的基础上，法院casemix的严重程度和程序的强度，我们选择了参与者在1个法院，或者2个法院作为参考组。参照组法院的案件数量相对较多，服务强度较高。我们使用倾向分数匹配来匹配其他法院的参与者与参考组法院程序的参与者。计划结果的衡量标准是参与者的概率：未能完成法院的计划，提高教育程度，参与者改善就业从计划入学时;对于大多数结果，我们的主要发现是，较高的服务强度与法庭参与者的更好结果相关，正如预期的那样，但法院的casemix严重程度是无关的研究outcomes.CONCLUSIONSOUR的结果意味着，投入更多的资源，以增加治疗的持续时间是生产性的更好的结果，无论混合的参与者在法院的程序。
PURPOSEThe purpose of this study is to classify DWI courts on the basis of the mix of difficult cases participating in the court (casemix severity) and the amount of involvement between the court and participant (service intensity). Using our classification typology, we assessed how casemix severity and service intensity are associated with program outcomes. We expected that holding other factors constant, greater service intensity would improve program outcomes while a relatively severe casemix would result in worse program outcomes.METHODSThe study used data from 8 DWI courts, 7 from Michigan and 1 from North Carolina. Using a 2-way classification system based on court casemix severity and program intensity, we selected participants in 1 of the courts, and alternatively 2 courts as reference groups. Reference group courts had relatively severe casemixes and high service intensity. We used propensity score matching to match participants in the other courts to participants in the reference group court programs. Program outcome measures were the probabilities of participants’: failing to complete the court's program; increasing educational attainment; participants improving employment from time of program enrollment; and re-arrest.RESULTSFor most outcomes, our main finding was that higher service intensity is associated with better outcomes for court participants, as anticipated, but a court's casemix severity was unrelated to study outcomes.CONCLUSIONSOur results imply that devoting more resources to increasing duration of treatment is productive in terms of better outcomes, irrespective of the mix of participants in the court's program.