The relationship between early-phase substance-use trajectories and drug court outcomes

Criminal Justice and Behavior

Volumn 38, Issue 9, 2011, Pages 913-933

  Jones, Craig G A ^a,b   Kemp, Richard I ^b  

^a NSW Bureau of Crime Statistics and Research   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

Author keywords

drug court; drug use; group based trajectory modeling; recidivism; treatment

Indexed keywords

EID: 79960725415     PISSN: 00938548     EISSN: 15523594     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0093854811411887     Document Type: Article

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