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Empirical Investigation of "Going to Scale" in Drug Interventions in the United States, 1990, 2003

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Principal Investigator(s): Bhati, Avinash Singh; Roman, John

Summary: Despite a growing consensus among scholars that substance abuse treatment is effective in reducing offending, strict eligibility rules have limited the impact of current models of therapeutic jurisprudence on public safety. This research effort was aimed at providing policy makers some guidance on whether expanding this model to more drug-involved offenders is cost-beneficial. Since data needed for providing evidence-based analysis of this issue were not readily available, micro-level data from... (view full summary)

Persistent URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR26101.v1

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