title: Treatment alternatives to street crime.
abstract: These studies point to TASC's success and effectiveness in programming through specific critical program elements. The specific program elements shown to be successful through various studies were: the establishment of the broad-based support by the criminal justice and treatment systems; the use of an offender eligibility criteria that assists in the early identification, assessment, and referral of the previously unidentified drug-dependent offender; and a comprehensive monitoring or case management system that holds the client accountable and has proven to reduce client rearrest rates and improve the treatment performance of the drug-dependent offender. Conversely, these studies have also shown that the lack of data collection and evaluation has hindered TASC programming.
mesh_terms: D003362:Cost-Benefit Analysis; D003416:Criminal Law; D003625:Data Collection; D006801:Humans; D007603:Jurisprudence; D019966:Substance-Related Disorders / Q000628:therapy*; D014481:United States