NCJ Number
101640
Journal
Journal of Offender Counseling, Services and Rehabilitation Volume: 10 Issue: 3 Dated: (Spring 1986) Pages: 51-57
Date Published
1986
Length
7 pages
Annotation
The purpose of this research was to conduct a followup of 92 inmates who had been assigned to a group therapy or a control condition in 1974.
Abstract
The original study had found a significant improvement in the institutional behavior of the therapy subjects. The followup, however, failed to find any significant differences between experimental and control subjects. There were nonsignificant trends for better adjusted followup subjects to have been from the control group, to have had fewer psychotherapy contacts, and to have had poorer institutional adjustment. Overall, 44.3 percent of the released subjects showed successful post-release adjustment for over 3 years; only 12.5 percent of the released subjects were reincarcerated at the time of the followup. (Author abstract)