Therapeutic Communities and Prison Management: An Examination of the Effects of Operating an in-Prison Therapeutic Community on Levels of Institutional Disorder

International Journal of Offender Therapy and Comparative Criminology

Volumn 47, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 210-223

  Dietz, Erik Faust ^a   O'Connell, Daniel J ^b   Scarpitti, Frank R ^b  

^a FEDERAL BUREAU OF PRISONS   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE   (United States)

Author keywords

Drug treatment; Inmates; Prison; Prison violence; Therapeutic communities

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ASSAULT; ATTITUDE; COMMUNITY CARE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG DEPENDENCE; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; EVALUATION; GRIEF; HEALTH PROGRAM; HOUSING; HUMAN; INSTITUTIONAL CARE; INSTITUTIONALIZATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; OUTCOMES RESEARCH; PATIENT CARE; PRISON; PRISONER; RECIDIVISM; RELAPSE; TECHNIQUE; VIOLENCE; ADDICTION; MENTAL HEALTH SERVICE; ORGANIZATION; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; RECURRENT DISEASE; STATISTICS;

ATTITUDE; EFFICIENCY, ORGANIZATIONAL; HUMANS; MENTAL HEALTH SERVICES; ORGANIZATIONAL CULTURE; PRISONERS; PRISONS; RECURRENCE; SUBSTANCE-RELATED DISORDERS; VIOLENCE;

EID: 0037980279     PISSN: 0306624X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0306624X03251088     Document Type: Article

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