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Related name

• Cowles, Ernest L. [Browse]
• Dorman, Laura Gransky [Browse]
• Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [Browse]

Series

• ICPSR (Series) ; 3102. [More in this series]
• ICPSR 3102

Restrictions note

Use of these data are restricted to Princeton University students, faculty, and staff for non-commercial statistical analysis and research purposes only.

Summary note

As part of the Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act of 1994, Congress provided funding for the development of substance abuse treatment programs in state and local correctional facilities with the Residential Substance Abuse Treatment (RSAT) for State Prisoners Formula Grant Program. To be eligible for this funding, programs were required to last between six and 12 months, be provided in residential treatment facilities set apart from the general correctional population, be directed at the inmate's substance abuse problems, and be intended to develop the inmate's cognitive, behavioral, social, vocational, and other skills to address substance abuse and related problems. The Illinois Youth Center (IYC) in St. Charles started an RSAT program on September 30, 1999. The primary emphasis of this process evaluation was to describe why and how the St. Charles RSAT program was designed, implemented, and operated. To a lesser degree, attention was also directed toward examining the effects of program participation on offender pre-release behavior. This was considered to be a primary indicator of program impact. This project sought to answer the following research questions: (1) Did the program fit within the institutional environment? (2) Was the program operating as a therapeutic community? (3) Were the appropriate offenders selected for program participation? and (4) Were any short-term impacts evident within the youth? This study followed a process evaluation design with a focus on determining how a product or outcome was produced, rather than on assessing the product or outcome itself. Information in this data collection was collected from youth participants and youth files. Subjects consisted of the 44 youths who began the RSAT program in 1999 (the treatment group), as well as a matched sample of non-program participants (the comparison group). The comparison gro... Cf.: http://webapp.icpsr.umich.edu/cocoon/ICPSR-STUDY/03102.xml

Notes

Title from ICPSR DDI metadata of 2006-09-15.

Type of data

4 data files + machine-readable documentation (PDF) + SAS setup file(s) + SPSS setup file(s) + Stata setup file(s) + SAS transport + SPSS portable + Stata system

Time and place of event

Start: 1999; and end: 2000.

Geographic coverage

Illinois, St. Charles, United States

Funding information

United States Department of Justice. NationalInstitute of Justice. 97-RT-VX-K019

System details

Mode of access: Internet.

Methodology note

• Data source: Data for Part 1 were collected with self-administered questionnaires. Data for Part 2 were coded from the Illinois Youth Center master files. Data for Part 3 were gathered from Illinois Youth Center behavior action tickets. Data for Part 4 were obtained from Illinois Youth Center institutional disciplinary reports.
• Universe: Youths aged 13 to 18 with substance abuse problems in the St. Charles, Illinois, Youth Center in 1999.

Contents

Part 1: Youth Survey Data; Part 2: Master File Data; Part 3: Behavior Action Ticket Data; Part 4: Institutional Disciplinary Report Data

Other format(s)

Also available as downloadable files.

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