Evaluation of the Residential Substance Abuse Treatment (RSAT) Program at the Southern New Mexico Correctional Facility, 1997-1998
Description
The goal for this study was to conduct a process evaluation
of the Residential Substance Abuse Treatment (RSAT) program, called
the Genesis program, at the Southern New Mexico Correctional Facility
(SNMCD) by examining the program's structure and assessing its
intermediate impact upon participating inmates. The study focuses on
answering three research questions: (1) Who were the program
participants? (2) What were the characteristics of the program? (3)
Was the program reaching the most appropriate offenders, or were its
participants primarily offenders who were not likely to become
recidivists? The study contains information on every inmate who
entered the Genesis program from July 31, 1997, to July 31, 1998. For
evaluation purposes, the researchers designed their own data
collection form which they used to collect relevant information from
each participant's treatment program file. Each participant's file was
maintained by Genesis program staff and was kept for the duration each
inmate was in the program. From each program participant at intake,
using the data collection instrument, the researchers collected
demographic information, substance abuse history, and criminal
history. The data are provided in two parts. Both parts are from the
same data collection instrument. Part 1 covers Questions 1 through 15
of the data collection instrument, while Part 2 covers Questions 16
through 34 of the data collection instrument. Part 1 includes
demographic variables about the inmate such as birth date, age,
ethnicity, citizenship, years of education, prior employment status,
longest employment, and average weekly income. It also includes
incarceration information such as confinement date, length of current
sentence, RSAT admission date, and expected parole date, and criminal
history information such as age at first adult arrest, number of
juvenile arrests, number of adult arrests, date of first adult arrest,
date of last adult arrest, and number of years served in prison.
There are also variables to address the inmate's drug use history as a
juvenile and as an adult. Part 2 continues with the drug use history
of the inmate as an adult with information about drugs used by IV
injection, number of alcohol withdrawals, number of drug overdoses,
number of detoxes, inpatient treatment received, outpatient treatment
received, average amount of money spent on drugs, percentage of income
spent on drugs, number of family members who use alcohol or drugs, and
how they were related to the inmate. In addition, the file contains
demographic information, such as current marital status and number of
children, and the inmate's psychological history including depression,
anxiety, anger, trouble understanding, concentrating, or remembering,
attempted suicide, prescribed medication, and hospitalization.
Criminal career variables include length of criminal career, all past
charges, weapons used during any crime, number of times a weapon was
used, and total number of convictions.
Resources
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Description |
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ICPSR02888.v1 |
https://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR02888.v1 |
Tags
- substance-abuse
- correctional-facilities
- recidivism
- process-evaluation
- treatment-outcomes
- drug-use
- outcome-evaluation
- residential-programs
- inmate-programs
- addiction
- substance-abuse-treatment