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Table 1
Summarv of Measures and Sources of Data
Measures
Inmate Background Factors
Offenders’ employment, family relations, cognitive
skills, attitudes toward drug use and criminality, and
antisocial values.
Demographics (age, ethnicity); life history (previous
drug use, employment, and criminality), psychological
status (e.g., depression, anxiety, intelligence), prior
drug treatment (number and type of admissions).
Assessed need for AOD treatment.
Institutional Indicators: Impacts Internal To The
Prison Environment
Misconducts (number and tme)
Levels Of Program Participation
Drug Abuse Violations in Prison
Intermediate Or “Proximal” Outcomes: Reductions
In Risk For Drug Use And Criminal Behavior
Treatment Process (e.g., length of time in treatment,
degree of involvement in treatment)
Inmate ratings of treatment program features,
participation in therapeutic groups, counselor attitudes
and behavior, resident attitudes and behavior,
counseling sessions, and motivation for treatment.
Psychosocial Functioning (self-esteem, depression,
anxiety, decision-making) and Social Functioning (e.g.,
hostility, risk-taking, and social conformity).
Post Release Indicators: Inmate Behavior Upon
Release From Prison
Relapse to Drug Use (type of drug, frequency of use)
Rearrest or Warrant Issued (number and type of
offenses; survival rate)
Reincarceration (number and type of offenses; survival
rate)
Parole Violation or Revocation
Post-Release Employment Status (e.g., hll-time, parttime,
unemployed and able to work, unemployed and
unable to work)
Source Of Data
0 Pennsylvania Additive Classification System (PACT)
0 Pennsylvania Department of Corrections Screening Instrument
(PACSI)
0 TCUDrugScreen
0 Pennsylvania Additive Classification System (PACT)
0 Pennsylvania Department of Corrections Screening Instrument
(PACSI)
0 TCUDrugScreen
0 Pennsylvania Department of Corrections Screening Instrument
(PACSI)
0 TCUDrugScreen
0 DOC Misconduct Database
0 Research and Program Records
0 TCU Resident Evaluation of Self and Treatment (REST) forms
0 DOC Misconduct Database
0 Random Inmate Selection Process (RISP) for Drug Testing
0 Research and Program Records
0 TCU Counselor Rating of Client (CRC) forms
e TCU Resident Evaluation of Self and Treatment (REST) forms
0 TCU Resident Evaluation of Self and Treatment (REST) forms
0 TCU Resident Evaluation of Self and Treatment (REST) forms
0 PA Board of Probation and Parole fincl. drug tests)
0 PA State Police Records provided by Pennsylvania Commission
on Crime and Delinquency (PCCD)
0 DOC Inmate Records System
0 PA Board of Probation and Parole
0 PA Board of Probation and Parole
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