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Faye S. Taxman
Researcher at George Mason University
Publications - 272
Citations - 6124
Faye S. Taxman is an academic researcher from George Mason University. The author has contributed to research in topics: Criminal justice & Recidivism. The author has an hindex of 40, co-authored 242 publications receiving 5351 citations. Previous affiliations of Faye S. Taxman include University of Maryland, College Park & Virginia Commonwealth University.
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Drug treatment services for adult offenders: The state of the state
TL;DR: The drug treatment services and correctional programs available to offenders do not appear to be appropriate for the needs of this population and the National Criminal Justice Treatment Practices survey provides a better understanding of the distribution of services and programs across prisons, jails, and community correctional agencies.
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The perfect storm: incarceration and the high-risk environment perpetuating transmission of HIV, hepatitis C virus, and tuberculosis in Eastern Europe and Central Asia
Frederick L. Altice,Lyuba Azbel,Jack Stone,Ellen Brooks-Pollock,Pavlo Smyrnov,Sergii Dvoriak,Faye S. Taxman,Nabila El-Bassel,Natasha K. Martin,Natasha K. Martin,Robert E. Booth,Heino Stöver,Kate Dolan,Peter Vickerman +13 more
TL;DR: Interventions that reduce incarceration itself and effectively intervene with prisoners to screen, diagnose, and treat addiction and HIV, hepatitis C virus, and tuberculosis are urgently needed to stem the multiple overlapping epidemics concentrated in prisons.
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Evidence-based treatment practices for drug-involved adults in the criminal justice system.
TL;DR: The use of EBPs among facility- and community-based programs that serve drug-involved adult offenders has room for improvement and Initiatives to disseminate EBPs might target these institutional and environmental domains, but further research is needed to determine whether such organization interventions can promote the uptake ofEBPs.
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No illusions: offender and organizational change in maryland's proactive community supervision efforts*
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors used a risk-need-responsivity model where the agency uses a risk and need tool to identify appropriate treatment and control services and then assigns offenders to such services.
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Risk, Need, and Responsivity (RNR): It All Depends
TL;DR: No main effects were observed on drug use or rearrest, although effect sizes illustrate that small effects can be observed for the offenders who are high risk, and the focus on sound dynamic factors may assist with identifying the appropriate target populations for correctional interventions.