Community-based treatment, care, and supervision for people with substance use problems who are involved with the justice system.
Reduce Drug Related Crime
Overview of Juvenile Deflection in the United States: A State-by-State Comparison.
Introduction Over the past few decades, juvenile crime (i.e., “delinquency”), arrests and confinement have begun to decline—a trend that directly correlates with states and localities moving away from overly punitive, “tough on crime”...
Strategies for Postrelease Supervision of Individuals with Serious Mental Illness: Comparing Specialized Community Corrections Officers to Those Not Serving on a Specialized Team
Abstract Specially trained parole/probation officers (STOs) increasingly manage caseloads of persons with serious mental illness (SMI). Using an online survey, we compared the supervision approaches of 90 STOs to 132 non-STOs who also...
Comparing Public Safety Outcomes for Traditional Probation vs Specialty Mental Health Probation
Key Points Question Does specialty probation yield better public safety outcomes than traditional probation for people with mental illness? Findings In this longitudinal study that included 359 probationers with mental illness, specialty...
The effects of cognitive behavioral therapy on recidivism among parolees in Central America: evidence from a Honduran experiment
ABSTRACT Objectives Cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) has shown promise as a tool for rehabilitating offenders in the USA and other developed nations. However, little is known about the effectiveness of CBT outside the developed world. In...
A meta‐analytic review of the efficacy of psychological treatments for violent offenders in correctional and forensic mental health settings.
ABSTRACT This meta‐analysis examined whether psychological treatments with adult violent offenders in correctional and forensic mental health settings are effective in preventing community recidivism and institutional (hospital/prison)...
The effect of direct interventions for antisocial cognition on recidivism in antisocial populations: a meta-analysis
ABSTRACT Objectives A meta-analysis was performed on seven studies in which a treatment program that directly addressed antisocial cognition in offenders was contrasted with a no-treatment or treatment as usual control group. Methods Pre...
Treatment Combinations: The Joint Effects of Multiple Evidence-Based Interventions on Recidivism Reduction
ABSTRACT Evidence-based interventions have been implemented within penal institutions to reduce the propensity of postrelease reoffending across states. Traditional program evaluations explore these interventions and demonstrate treatment...
Criminal Justice Involvement after Release from Prison following Exposure to Community Mental Health Services among People Who Use Illicit Drugs and Have Mental Illness: a Systematic Review
ABSTRACT Illicit drug use and mental illness are common among people in prison and are associated with higher rates of reoffending and reimprisonment. We conducted a systematic review, searching MEDLINE, Embase, and PsycINFO to January 10...
Treatment completion among justice-involved youth engaged in behavioral health treatment studies in the United States: A systematic review and meta-analysis
Abstract Justice-involved youth (JIY) have high rates of behavioral health disorders, but few can access, much less complete, treatment in the community. Behavioral health treatment completion among JIY is poorly understood, even within...
Systematic Review: Impact of Juvenile Incarceration. Child Protection and Practice
Abstract Background The juvenile justice system was established with the intent of rehabilitation (Fagan & Zimring, 2000). However, despite these intentions, the reality of juvenile incarceration is that it often fails in this...