NCT01237691

An Evaluation of California's Experiment With HOPE

Phase 1 Study of California's HOPE Experiment

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 105 (estimated)
• Sponsor: Pepperdine University · Academic / Other
• Sex: Male
• Age: 18 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

The phase I evaluation is intended to assess whether or not frequent drug testing and immediate short-term incarceration for drug use and/or other violations and mandated drug treatment for multiple violations, reduces the recurrence of drug use and/or other violation behaviors by California parolees assigned to the study group.

Detailed description

The California HOPE pilot program is being implemented under the authority granted in Penal Code 5058.1. The phase I evaluation is intended to assess whether or not frequent drug testing and immediate short-term incarceration for drug use and/or other violations and mandated drug treatment for multiple violations, reduces the recurrence of drug use and/or other violation behaviors by California parolees assigned to the study group compared with parole-as-usual.

Conditions

• Drugs of Abuse

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
BEHAVIORAL	HOPE supervision	HOPE entails a warning session (Orientation Hearing) where the rules of parole are laid out and parolees are told that any violation of stated parole conditions will be sanctioned with a brief jail term (typically a few days in jail). HOPE includes regular random drug testing.
BEHAVIORAL	Parole-as-usual	Parolees are supervised under standard parole supervision practice in California.

Timeline

• Start date: 2010-11-01
• Primary completion: 2012-10-01
• Completion: 2013-03-01
• First posted: 2010-11-09
• Last updated: 2018-04-10

Locations

1 site across 1 country: United States