Interactions Among DUI Offender Characteristics and Traditional Intervention Modalities: a Long Term Recidivism Follow-Up

• NCJ Number: 117315
• Journal: British Journal of Addiction Volume: 84 Issue: 4 Dated: (April 1989) Pages: 381-390
• Author(s): E Wells-Parker; B J Anderson; D L McMillen; J W Landrum
• Date Published: 1989
• Length: 10 pages
• Publication Format: Article
• Publication Type: Research (Applied/Empirical)
• Language: English
• Country: United Kingdom

Annotation

In this 9-year follow-up study of the Mississippi DUI Probation Project, the findings confirm the hypothesis that the effectiveness of remedial intervention is specified by offender characteristics.

Abstract

Specific interventions will only be effective for specific types of offenders, and the same intervention strategy, such as probation, will have very different overall effects when evaluated within demographically diverse samples. Short-term rehabilitation was most effective for those with less than 12 years of education, and probation was more effective for those under age 30, above age 55, and for the more educated. Young, well-educated minority offenders were most effected by probation in the under 30 years age group. 4 tables and 27 references. (Author abstract modified)