title: Gender-sensitive substance abuse treatment and arrest outcomes for women.
abstract: The present study links an empirically-developed quantitative measure of gender-sensitive (GS) substance abuse treatment to arrest outcomes among 5109 substance abusing women in mixed-gender short-term residential programs in Washington State. Frailty models of survival analysis and three-level hierarchical linear models were conducted to test the beneficial effects of GS treatment on decreasing criminal justice involvement. Propensity scores were used to control for the pre-existing differences among women due to the quasi-experimental nature of the study. Men's arrest outcomes were used to control for confounding at the program level. Results show that women in more GS treatment programs had a lower risk of drug-related arrests, and women in more GS treatment programs who also completed treatment had a significant reduction in overall arrests from 2 years before- to 2 years after treatment, above and beyond the reduction in arrests due to treatment alone. Implications and directions for future research are discussed.
authors.affiliation: Westat, 1600 Research Boulevard, Rockville, MD 20850, USA. Electronic address: wendykissin@westat.com.
authors.forename: Wendy B
authors.initials: WB
authors.lastname: Kissin
authors.affiliation: Westat, 1600 Research Boulevard, Rockville, MD 20850, USA.
authors.forename: Zhiqun
authors.initials: Z
authors.lastname: Tang
authors.affiliation: Division of Behavioral Health and Recovery, Washington State Department of Social and Health Services, Box 45330, Olympia, WA 98504-5330.
authors.forename: Kevin M
authors.initials: KM
authors.lastname: Campbell
authors.affiliation: Westat, 1600 Research Boulevard, Rockville, MD 20850, USA.
authors.forename: Ronald E
authors.initials: RE
authors.lastname: Claus
authors.affiliation: Westat, 1600 Research Boulevard, Rockville, MD 20850, USA.
authors.forename: Robert G
authors.initials: RG
authors.lastname: Orwin
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D003416:Criminal Law; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D016014:Linear Models; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D057216:Propensity Score; D012737:Sex Factors; D019966:Substance-Related Disorders / Q000628:therapy*
keywords: Arrest; Criminal justice outcomes; Drug abuse treatment; Gender-sensitive treatment; Women offenders