Douglas Young

TL;DR: Results support the use of structured protocols for informing clients about legal contingencies of participation and how that participation will be monitored, and developing the capacity to enforce threatened consequences for failure.

TL;DR: Findings about treatment and other correctional service provision from a national survey of directors of 141 juvenile institutional and community corrections (CC) facilities showed that the number of youth attending treatment in all types of facilities on any given day was very low.

TL;DR: A national survey of adult prisons, jails, and community correctional agencies was conducted to examine the practices used to place offenders in appropriate treatment services, suggesting agencies desiring to improve correctional programming should consider different dissemination, implementation, and technology transfer strategies.

TL;DR: An instrument to measure interagency collaboration and integration activities using items in the National Criminal Justice Treatment Practices Surveys conducted as part of the Criminal Justice Drug Abuse Treatment Studies (CJ-DATS).

TL;DR: In this paper, a study of 161 offenders mandated from different criminal justice sources to attend long-term residential treatment was conducted, and the authors found that providing information to clients about conditions and contingencies of treatment participation and convincing them they will be enforced are effective coercive approaches.