Role of Drug and Alcohol Abuse in Domestic Violence and Its Treatment: Dade County's Domestic Violence Court Experiment, Appendices to the Final Report

• NCJ Number: 163408
• Date Published: 1996
• Author(s): J S Goldkamp; D Weiland; M Collins; M White
• Length: 200 pages
• Grant Number(s): 93-IJ-CX-0028
• Agencies: NIJ-Sponsored
• Publication Type: Research (Applied/Empirical)

Annotation

This document presents tables, survey instruments, and related materials that were appended to a report on the relationship between alcohol and other drug abuse and domestic assault and its treatment, based on the experience of a Florida domestic violence court.

Abstract

The analysis used information from the Dade County (Fla.) experiment with a domestic violence court. Some of the appendixes present supplemental tables for the descriptive analysis of samples and outcomes in the baseline and experimental studies of the court. These tables focus on offender characteristics, offense characteristics, treatment outcomes, and rearrests. An additional appendix presents tables displaying the results of a pilot survey of victims. The final appendix presents study instruments, descriptions of the samples, and draft coding instructions