Gender-sensitive substance abuse treatment and arrest outcomes for women.
Gender-sensitive substance abuse treatment and arrest outcomes for women.
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DOI:
10.1016/j.jsat.2013.09.005
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发表时间:
2014-03
影响因子:
3.9
通讯作者:
Orwin RG
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作者:
Kissin WB;Tang Z;Campbell KM;Claus RE;Orwin RG
The present study links an empirically-developed quantitative measure of gender-sensitive (GS) substance abuse treatment to arrest outcomes among 5,109 substance abusing women in mixed-gender short-term residential programs in Washington State. Frailty models of survival analysis and 3-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 two years before- to two years after treatment, above and beyond the reduction in arrests due to treatment alone. Implications and directions for future research are discussed.