期刊名称：The Annual Review of Interdisciplinary Justice Research
印刷版ISSN：1925-2420
出版年度：2018
卷号：7
页码：315-346
出版社：Centre for Interdisciplinary Justice Studies
摘要：This study assesses potential factors influencing program retentionfor the Winnipeg, Manitoba, drug treatment court (DTC) such asdemographic, legal, addiction, and criminal justice risk. Researchpresented here uses actuarial instruments incorporating static anddynamic factors in classifying risk/need: the Institutional SecurityAssessment (ISA), the Primary Risk Assessment (PRA), and theLevel of Service/Case Management Inventory (LS/CMI). Afteroutlining participant demographic, legal, and risk characteristics,bivariate and multivariate correlates of program attrition areexamined (N = 250). Only a few indicators reliably increased thelikelihood of program attrition: drug trafficking charge, prior criminalhistory, and higher actuarial risk/needs assessment rankings. Femaleparticipants did better in some circumstances. Demographic factorssuch as age, Indigenous status, marital status, prior employment, andeducation had no substantial impact on treatment retention. Drug ofchoice also showed no effect on retention. Actuarial instruments wereeffective at predicting program completion, and their use at thereferral stages of DTC programming is recommended.
