COMMUNITY TREATMENT PROJECT POST-DISCHARGE ANALYSIS AN UPDATING OF THE 1969 ANALYSIS FOR SACRAMENTO AND STOCKTON MALES

• NCJ Number: 8736
• Author(s): T PALMER; A HERRERA
• Date Published: 1972
• Length: 13 pages
• Corporate Author: California Dept of the Youth Authority
• Publication Format: Document
• Publication Type: Statistics
• Language: English
• Country: United States of America

Annotation

SEVERITY, NUMBER, AND RATE OF POST-RELEASE OFFENSES OF PARTICIPANTS IN THE CALIFORNIA COMMUNITY TREATMENT PROJECT ARE COMPARED TO THOSE OF A CONTROL GROUP.

Abstract

'NO SUBSTANTIAL DIFFERENCES WERE FOUND ON 24-MONTHS FOLLOWUP BETWEEN THE EXPERIMENTAL AND CONTROL DISCHARGEES, RELATIVE TO POST-DISCHARGE OFFENSE BEHAVIOR. THIS APPLIED TO THE FULL RANGE OF OFFENSES, AND TO THOSE OF A MODERATE OR SEVERE NATURE ALONE. ON 48-MONTHS POST-DISCHARGE FOLLOWUP, SLIGHT THOUGH STATISTICALLY INSIGNIFICANT DIFFERENCES WERE FOUND ON TWO OF THE FOUR PERFORMANCE INDICES. BOTH DIFFERENCES FAVORED THE CONTROL DISCHARGEES. WHEN OFFENSES OF A MINOR NATURE WERE EXCLUDED, ONLY ONE OF THESE DIFFERENCES REMAINED MEAN NUMBER OF POST-DISCHARGE OFFENSES PER WARD (1.93 VS. 1.70 PER WARD FOR THE EXPERIMENTAL AND CONTROL GROUPS, RESPECTIVELY. THE SLIGHTLY BETTER PERFORMANCE OF CONTROLS THAN EXPERIMENTALS ON THE 48-MONTH FOLLOWUP MAY HAVE BEEN PARTLY ACCOUNTED FOR BY THE FACT THAT THE FORMER, AS A GROUP, TENDED TO BE BETTER PAROLE RISKS THAN THE LATTER.' AUTHOR MODIFIED