NCT03826420

Swift, Certain, and Fair: Reducing Recidivism and Improving Outcomes for Alcohol and Drug Users on State Parole

• Status: Unknown
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 250 (estimated)
• Sponsor: Botec Analysis, LLC · Industry
• Sex: Male
• Age: 18 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

Summary

This research project will study the outcomes of medium- to high-risk parolees with a history of substance abuse in Alleghany County, Pennsylvania supervised under Swift-Certain-Fair parole. The research goals are to: * Determine the effectiveness of SCF parole in reducing recidivism among medium- to high-risk parolees with a history of substance abuse in Pennsylvania. * Determine the minimum effective sanction in response to a violation that will bring parolees into compliance with the conditions of their parole.

Conditions

• Substance Abuse
• Criminal Behavior

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
BEHAVIORAL	SCF Supervision with Secure Confinement Sanctioning	Parolees assigned to this group will, in the face of a violation, be given a sanction that involves secure confinement.
BEHAVIORAL	SCF Supervision with Work Release Sanctioning	Parolees assigned to this group will, in the face of a violation, be given a sanction that involves work-release.
BEHAVIORAL	SCF Supervision with GPS Supervision Sanctioning	Parolees assigned to this group will, in the face of a violation, be given a sanction that involves GPS supervision.

Timeline

• Start date: 2019-04-01
• Primary completion: 2020-08-15
• Completion: 2020-12-31
• First posted: 2019-02-01
• Last updated: 2019-03-11