NIJ Research Review: Selected Summaries
Date Published
September 2000
Publication Type
Report (Study/Research)
Agencies
NIJ
Treatment/therapeutic community
Can Faith-Based Correctional Programs Work? An Outcome Evaluation of the InnerChange Freedom Initiative in Minnesota
Date Published
2012
Publication Type
Research (Applied/Empirical),
Report (Study/Research),
Program/Project Evaluation,
Program/Project Description
Agencies
NIJ
Sex Offender Supervision: Communication, Training, and Mutual Respect Are Necessary for Effective Collaboration Between Probation Officers and Therapists
Date Published
2019
Publication Type
Research (Applied/Empirical),
Report (Study/Research),
Report (Grant Sponsored),
Program/Project Description
Agencies
NIJ-Sponsored
Exploring How Prison-Based Drug Rehabilitation Programming Shapes Racial Disparities in Substance Use Disorder Recovery
Date Published
February 2018
Publication Type
Research (Applied/Empirical),
Report (Study/Research),
Report (Grant Sponsored),
Program/Project Description
Agencies
NIJ-Sponsored
Three-Year Outcomes of Therapeutic Community Treatment for Drug-Involved Offenders in Delaware: From Prison to Work Release to Aftercare
Date Published
1999
Publication Type
Research (Applied/Empirical)
Agencies
NIJ-Sponsored
Process Evaluation of Tier IV Connecticut Department of Correction Residential Substance Abuse Treatment Programs, Final Report
Date Published
May 2001
Publication Type
Program/Project Evaluation
Agencies
NIJ-Sponsored
Dynamics of a Prison-Based Therapeutic Community for Women Offenders: Retention, Completion, and Outcomes
Date Published
March 2006
Publication Type
Program/Project Description
Agencies
NIJ-Sponsored
Three-Year Reincarceration Outcomes for In-Prison Therapeutic Community Treatment in Texas
Date Published
1999
Publication Type
Research (Applied/Empirical)
Agencies
NIJ-Sponsored
Therapeutic Communities in Prisons and Work Release: Effective Modalities for Drug-Involved Offenders
Date Published
1999
Publication Type
Program/Project Evaluation
Agencies
NIJ-Sponsored
"The Other Way" Program Evaluation
Date Published
March 1999
Publication Type
Program/Project Evaluation
Agencies
NIJ-Sponsored
Census of Prison-Based Drug Treatment Programs: Implications for Programming, Policy, and Evaluation
Date Published
January 2004
Publication Type
Survey
Agencies
NIJ-Sponsored
Recidivism Following Mandated Residential Substance Abuse Treatment for Felony Probationers
Date Published
June 2006
Publication Type
Program/Project Evaluation
Agencies
NIJ-Sponsored
Cost Effectiveness Analysis of In-Prison Therapeutic Community Treatment and Risk Classification
Date Published
1999
Publication Type
Research (Applied/Empirical)
Agencies
NIJ-Sponsored
Risk Factors That Predict Dropout From Corrections-Based Treatment for Drug Abuse
Date Published
1999
Publication Type
Research (Applied/Empirical)
Agencies
NIJ-Sponsored
Starting a Sex Offender Program: Reports From Three Communities (From Managing Adult Sex Offenders: A Containment Approach, P 7.1-7.13, 1996, Kim English, Suzanne Pullen, and Linda Jones, eds. - See NCJ-162392)
Date Published
1996
Publication Type
Report (Technical Assistance)
Agencies
NIJ-Sponsored
Motivation as a Predictor of Therapeutic Engagement in Mandated Residential Substance Abuse Treatment
Date Published
February 2002
Publication Type
Report (Study/Research)
Agencies
NIJ-Sponsored
Can Corrections Operate Therapeutic Communities for Inmates? The Impact on the Social Environment of Jails
Date Published
1997
Publication Type
Report (Study/Research)
Agencies
NIJ-Sponsored
Factors Affecting Client Motivation in Therapeutic Community Treatment for Offenders in Delaware, Summary Report 1997-1999
Date Published
1999
Publication Type
Program/Project Evaluation
Agencies
NIJ-Sponsored
The Experiences of Men with Substance Use Disorders Exiting Prison at the Height of the Opioid Crisis
2019-R2-CX-0010
Open
Funding First Awarded
2019
$91,097
Solutions in Corrections: Using Evidence-based Knowledge
May 2010
Series
Professor Ed Latessa describes how his team and he assessed more than 550 programs and saw the best and the worst. Professor Latessa shared his lessons learned and examples of states that are trying to use evidence-based knowledge to improve correctional programs.
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Addiction, the Brain, and Evidence-Based Treatment
March 2012
Series
The criminal justice system encounters and supervises a large number of drug abusing persons. Punishment alone is a futile and ineffective response to the problem of drug abuse. Addiction is a chronic brain disease with a strong genetic component that in most instances requires treatment. Involvement in the criminal justice system provides a unique opportunity to treat drug abuse disorders and related health conditions, thereby improving public health and safety.
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Homicide in the United States
June 2009
The 2009 NIJ Conference kicked off with a blue-ribbon panel of leaders with expertise in urban issues as they relate to homicide. These experts will discuss promising approaches that have resulted in reduced violence and community empowerment.
Evaluation of Reentry-Based Restorative Justice: A Randomized Controlled Trial
2019-RY-BX-0002
Open
Funding First Awarded
2018
$799,988
What Works in Reentry
December 2018
Series
This Research for the Real World seminar, held October 29, 2018 focuses on the role and importance of institutional and community corrections, and rehabilitative and reentry services in crime prevention and public safety efforts. The seminar supports NIJ and the field in furthering the corrections and reentry research agenda, and advancing the knowledge of the Federal Interagency Council on Crime Prevention and Improving Reentry.
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