NCJ Number
175026
Journal
Journal of Offender Rehabilitation Volume: 28 Issue: 1/2 Dated: 1998 Pages: 29-40
Date Published
1998
Length
12 pages
Annotation
A study of 123 male drunk-driving offenders referred to treatment found that the unipolar Anxiety, Depression, and Sensation Seeking scales and the composite Dysphoria scale of the grade 6 reading level form of the Multiple Affect Adjective Check List-Revised (MAACL-R6) administered at program intake could efficiently differentiate between those who were returned to court (RTC) and those who remained in good program standing (RGS) after 6 months in the program.
Abstract
Participants were consecutive male intakes at a 20-week alcohol counseling and education program for repeat drunk-driving offenders. All participants had been ordered to complete the program by a municipal court judge as a condition of their probation. The participants were classified into two groups based on their status in the program at the end of 180 days. The first group consisted of those participants who were returned to the court for a probation revocation hearing, and the second group consisted of those participants who remained drug-free and alcohol-free and had not been rearrested. RTCs had higher levels of anxiety and depression (and dysphoria), as well as lower levels of Sensation Seeking at program intake than did RGSs. The same pattern was found when the number of previous drunk-driving arrests were also considered as a predictor. Correction classification rates ranged from 82.1 percent to 87.8 percent for the unipolar scales of the MAACL-R6 and between 75.6 percent and 82.9 percent for the composite MAACL-R6 scales, with RTCs being correctly classified between 57.5 percent and 75 percent of the time; RGSs were correctly classified between 84.3 percent and 94 percent of the time. 6 tables and 13 references