Predicting Post-Release Adjustment of Institutionalized Addicts: An Analysis of New York and California Parole Experience and California Civil Commitment Experience

• NCJ Number: 166033
• Author(s): D V Babst; D Glaser; J A Inciardi
• Date Published: 1969
• Length: 44 pages
• Corporate Author: New York State
• Sale Source: New York State
• Publication Type: Survey
• Language: English
• Country: United States of America
• Note: DCC

Annotation

This report describes an evaluation strategy used by the New York State Narcotic Addiction Control Commission and uses data from California and New York State parole cases to demonstrate how a regular statistical reporting system can be used to provide one type of evaluation of a large agency's treatment systems.

Abstract

The evaluation strategy consists of using actual experience to develop narcotic user classifications that have the ability to differentiate probable outcomes on parole. This classification becomes the basis for predicting parole adjustment for future groups. The analysis followed drug users released from California and New York correctional institutions for 1 year on parole. These data were used to develop base expectancy tables to use as a yardstick for measuring the impact of a treatment program. The analysis considered various lengths of institutional stay by parole outcome. Tables, reference notes, and appended methodological information (Author abstract modified)