Journal of Alcoholism & Drug Dependence
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Douglas M Anglin

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• Research Article
  Offender Diversion into Substance Use Disorder Treatment: Demographic Variation in the Economic Impact of California’s Proposition 36
  Author(s): Douglas M Anglin, Adi Jaffee, Bohdan Nysok, Darren Urada and Elizabeth EvansDouglas M Anglin, Adi Jaffee, Bohdan Nysok, Darren Urada and Elizabeth Evans
  
  Context: California implemented a voter-approved offender diversion program, the Substance Abuse and Crime Prevention Act (SACPA; also known as Proposition 36), in July 2001. SACPA offered probation or continued parole with substance abuse treatment in lieu of incarceration or supervision without treatment for adult offenders convicted of drug offenses and for probationers and parolees who violated drug-related supervision conditions. Objectives: To describe demographic variation in governmental costs associated with SACPA. Methods: Administrative data were used to define control and intervention cohorts of drug offenders meeting SACPA eligibility criteria in the proximate years before SACPA implementation and for the first year after implementation. Three separate difference-in-differences regression models estimated .. Read More»
  DOI: 10.4172/2329-6488.1000140

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