Profile of Characteristics That Distinguish Successful Completers and Unsuccessful Completers for Individuals Released From Massachusetts Halfway Houses, Incorporated During 1979

• NCJ Number: 78997
• Author(s): L T Williams; J Harrington
• Date Published: 1980
• Length: 49 pages
• Sale Source: National Institute of Justice/
• Language: English
• Country: United States of America

Annotation

This report examines the population of residents released from Massachusetts Halfway Houses, Inc. (MHHI) during 1979 to determine those characteristics that were significant in distinguishing successful completers from noncompleters.

Abstract

The study analyzed commitment, background, and criminal history variables. Program completers were those individuals who were paroled, discharged, or received a lateral transfer to another minimum security facility. Program noncompleters were those persons who either returned to a higher security facility or who escaped the MHHI facility in which they had been placed. Of the total 151 residents released from MHHI in 1979, 105 (70 percent) were program completers and 46 (30 percent) were noncompleters. The following variables, listed in rank order of significance, were found to be critical: number of furloughs, number of successful furlough outcomes, number of late under furlough outcomes, known drug use, and number of charges for property offenses. Seventeen other variables also were found to be critical. Tables and appended data are provided. (Author abstract modified)