Central States Criminal Justice Drug Abuse Center

描述(由申请人提供)： 美国刑事司法系统充斥着吸毒者。然而，在吸毒者从监狱过渡到社区治疗过程中，几乎没有制定出侧重于刑事司法的办法。这是令人震惊的，因为据估计，在接下来的几年里，每年将有50万名囚犯返回社区，其中83%的人估计是吸毒者。提出这一申请是为了通过建立中部各州刑事司法药物滥用治疗研究系统(CJ-DATS)中心来重点审查社区过渡。中部各州CJ-DATS中心的总体目标是开发信息，以改进对涉及吸毒者的刑事司法过渡干预措施，从而减少累犯率、减少药物滥用和减少相关犯罪。肯塔基大学毒品和酒精研究中心的既定经验被描述为继续在现有研究的基础上开展农村/城市理论上的刑事司法研究。这些研究包括正在进行的两项NIDA试验，这两项试验正在审查加强缓刑犯艾滋病毒干预和加强毒品法庭就业干预，以及一个项目正在审查5所监狱中吸毒囚犯对监狱和社区卫生服务的利用情况，并从监狱到社区进行12个月的跟踪调查。本申请书还描述了将设立的四个中央州中心委员会，其任务是(1)规划、(2)实施、(3)收集/分析数据和(4)与首席调查员、中心指导委员会和中心咨询委员会共同制定出版物。一名州惩教专员、一名州药物滥用主任、6个刑事司法机构和8个社区治疗机构的承诺书提供了第一年及以后几年15 709名刑事司法参与者和13 087名社区治疗参与者的城乡受试者。此外，提出了两项研究方案，作为跨CJ-DATS中心的多地点试验，以加强监狱/社区的过渡：(1)以获得、维持和提高就业为重点的强化就业干预；(2)案例管理/犯罪思维错误强化干预。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The U.S. criminal justice system is awash with drug abusers. However, few approaches have been developed which focus on criminal justice involved drug abusers as they transition from prison to community treatment. This is alarming because it is estimated that 500,000 prisoners will return to the community each year for the next several years, and 83 percent of those returning are estimated to be drug abusers. This application is presented to focus on examining community transitions by establishing the Central States Criminal Justice Drug Abuse Treatment Research System (CJ-DATS) Center. The overall aim of the Central States CJ-DATS Center is to develop information to improve transition interventions for criminal justice involved drug abusers which reduce recidivism, reduce drug abuse, and reduce related crime. The established experience of the University of Kentucky Center on Drug and Alcohol Research is described to continue to carry out rural/urban theoretically grounded criminal justice studies, which build upon current research. These studies include two on-going NIDA trials which are examining an enhanced Probationer HIV intervention and an enhanced Drug Court employment intervention, as well as a project which is examining prison and community health services utilization among drug abusing prisoners in 5 prisons with 12 month follow-up from prison to the community. This application also describes four Central States Center Committees that will be established to (1) Plan, (2) Implement, (3) Collect/Analyze Data and (4) Develop Publications in concert with the Principal Investigator, the Center Steering Committee, and the Center Advisory Board. Letters of commitment from a State Corrections Commissioner, a State Substance Abuse Director, 6 criminal justice agencies, and 8 community treatment agencies present rural and urban subject availability of 15,709 criminal justice participants and 13,087 community treatment participants for the first year and subsequent years. In addition, two study protocols are presented as multi-site trials across CJ-DATS Centers to enhance prison/community transitions: (1) An enhanced employment intervention focused on obtaining, maintaining and upgrading employment, and (2) A case management/criminal thinking error enhanced intervention.