Sign Up Now
Get instant access to over 1 million+ study documents
OR
Already registered? click here to login
By creating your account, you agree to our terms of service, privacy policy and student honor code.
¶ … eradicating alcohol and drug addiction from a woman offender's life is seen in the research results of Baylor Correctional Institution women inmates. The research questions pertaining to increasing their knowledge of what constitutes unlawful behaviors, identifying the triggers associated with drug use, and increase their knowledge of and identification of coping skills to remain drug-free are the basis of this methodology section. Methodologies pertaining to drug treatment programs often concentrate on the externalities and easily tracked causes, neglecting the internal, attitudinal and situational factors that trigger relapse (McCusker, Vikers-Lahti, Stoddard, et.al.1995). The outcome of the initial research validates this point, showing how women offenders from Baylor Correctional Institution can successfully define and identify unlawful behaviors, and can also increase their coping skills through programs. This finding is consistent with empirical studies that illustrate how residential drug treatment programs are successful in teaching drug offenders for what specific external factors to evaluate in their own behaviors and shows how useful these programs are in managing the externally-driven stimuli to relapse (McCusker, Vikers-Lahti, Stoddard, et.al.1995). The majority of research however does not address the most difficult treatment program to solve, which is getting repeat offenders to identify triggers that lead to relapse and taken action to avert their effect. The influence of significant opposite-sex relationships as a catalyst for relapse is seen in the initial research results. Unknown is the effects of a women offender's cumulative experiences in a residential treatment program on the members...
The intent of this methodology section is to compare and contrast different qualitative and quantitative approaches to capture data relevant to the issue of triggers that lead to relapse. The research questions have also been modified to reflect a more focused emphasis on internalized triggers of women offenders and what leads them to relapse into drug use after residential treatment programs. Support for each methodology is also provided that ties back to the research questions and relevant theory.
Assessment of Research Questions and Research Methodologies
The three questions used to this point in the analysis seek to capture the effectiveness of workshop sessions in assisting women offenders:
1. Did 50% of participants who attended workshop sessions, increase their knowledge of what constitutes unlawful behaviors?
2. Did 50% of participants who attended all workshop sessions, increase their knowledge in identifying the triggers associated with drug usage?
3. Did 50% of participants who attended all workshop sessions, increase their knowledge by identifying coping skills needed to remain drug free
The first and third questions are effective in measuring traditional training and treatment programs often found in residential drug treatment programs (McCusker, Vikers-Lahti, Stoddard, et.al.1995). They are not however not effective in determining if women offenders perceive a trigger event or the causality of specific situations or series of decisions with members of the opposite sex they have significant relationships with (Chan, Guydish, Prem., et.al. 2005). Previous…
Bibliography
Chan, M., Guydish, J., Prem, R., Jessup, M.A., Cervantes, A., & Bostrom, A. (2005). Evaluation
of probation case management (PCM) for drug-involved women offenders. Crime and Delinquency, 51(4), 447-469.
Guydish, J., Chan, M., Bostrom, A., Jessup, M.A., Davis, T.B., & Marsh, C. (2011). A
randomized trial of probation case management for drug-involved women offenders. Crime and Delinquency, 57(2), 167-198.
The family may be a source of stress, tension, and problems, and can drive its individuals to cope with these problems in harmful ways, such as by use of drugs and alcohol (UNDCP, 1995). Families may be social inhibitors, or may be a channel for family members to be involved in the community. The implications of familial relationships can influence both positive and negative behaviors. The family has the potential
addiction over the past several decades, that addiction, specifically drug addiction, has been present in society for most of mankind's presence on earth. Such addiction may have been known by other descriptions and may not have been known to be the result of something exactly identified as a drug but such use was still likely an addiction. The use of drugs has been recorded by historians for thousands of
Abusing illegal drugs can give rise to crime and violence, even if they are used in an allegedly positive way to 'open up' and 'free' the mind. Even overusing antibiotics, and insisting upon taking them even though one's disease is likely caused by a virus can cause a rise of antibiotic-resistant bacteria and can impact general human health. However, refusing to take certain medical treatments, such as refusing to
Drugs in Federal Corrections Corrections issues One of the issue faced by the criminal justice system is offenders with drug problems. Research has indicated that almost 70% of criminals entering the correctional institutions have injected drugs 12 months prior to their incarceration (Ruiz, Douglas, Edens, Nikolova, & Lilienfeld, 2012). These patterns of drug abuse clearly demonstrate that many prisoners begin their prison terms with drug problems. If the problem is not recognized
Unfortunately, the American government has been looking in the wrong place for these models, especially in Asia and Latin America. For example, the coca plant from which cocaine is derived grows in abundance in many geographical regions of northern South America and in Central America, where growers make huge profits as compared to efforts to force farmers and peasants to grow legal crops which inevitably do not produce enough
Solution to Stop Drug Trafficking and Terrorism in the United States and Abroad Drug trafficking and terrorism in the U.S. And abroad Simply put, illegal drugs appear to be one of, if not the most lucrative sources of funds for terrorist activities. Mainstream media, scholars, policymakers, and even the general public commonly believe that terrorist activity is funded by global sales and/or trade in illegal drugs. It has been suggested that terrorist