Gene Kassebaum

Polydrug Use and Self Control among Men and Women in Prisons.

This article describes research conducted to examine the patterns of alcohol and drug use and self concepts of incarcerated adult offenders in relation to age, gender, and ethnicity in a western state. The purpose of this research was to estimate the extent and variety of alcohol and drug use in the prison population and design a data collection instrument. Individual interviews with every newly admitted sentenced felon (N = 157 men and 39 women) were conducted. Inmates reported nearly universal alcohol use and marijuana use and extensive use of cocaine, crack, heroin, crystal methamphetamine (ice) and using various other schedule drugs, usually in combination with alcohol and other drugs. The problem for the interviewers was not how to elicit admissions of drug use but how to categorize the large number of combinations. Polydrug use, often in combination with alcohol, is the rule, not the exception. Starting, switching and quitting, and combining or substituting drugs is reported by the vast majority of inmates. While patterns varied, it was difficult to discern a special class of drug addicts among the inmates. Our findings suggest that large percentages of prison inmates are frequent substance abusers, perceive problems from use, but are often not interested in drug treatment in prison. Many inmates who by their own reports seem appropriate for alcohol or drug treatment do not seek treatment. This is not influenced by the extent of drug use or experience with previous treatment. Female prisoners seem to be more often and more extensively involved in addicting drugs than male prisoners. This is particularly problematic because there are very few specialized treatment or training programs for women offenders. Since drug use is very widespread, urine monitoring is increasing and continued criminalization of all drugs except alcohol enjoys wide support, correctional agencies must search to develop effective and affordable strategies for dealing with drug use.

Drug-Alcohol Dependence of Women Prisoners in Hawaii

This article reports the results of research on the patterns of drug-alcohol use of incarcerated women in Hawaii. It explores the womens use of multiple versus single drugs, histories of physical and sexual abuse, and previous experience with drug treatment programs and presents recommendations for improved correctional programming.

The Drug Court as a Sentencing Model

The sentencing model of the drug court puts a single judge into repeated contact with defendants under supervision. The drug court sentencing model, first, provides court monitoring and immediate, tangible punitive consequences for noncompliance with program requirements and, second, offers a strongly supportive group that provides a range of treatment options with which the defendant must be involved. Data in this article are from (a) a database developed on cases accepted or rejected by the drug court, (b) interviews with treatment providers, and (c) interviews with judges and administrators and attendance at court hearings and drug court graduation ceremonies. The article presents data on the conduct of the drug court judge and completion and attrition rates in the program, and it concludes that the activist judge role is the pivotal feature of the drug court.

Pushing the Limits on Court-Annexed Arbitration: The Hawaii Experience

This is the third of a series of four articles describing the evaluation results for Hawaii’s mandatory Court-Annexed Arbitration Program (CAAP), a program with a

Using Court-Annexed Arbitration to Reduce Litigant Costs and to Increase the Pace of Litigation

150,000 jurisdictional limit. The article reports on survey data from over 600 returned surveys from lawyers in CAAP cases. The evaluation was focused on the litigation costs, pace of litigation and satisfaction of the participants because these factors reflect the goals of CAAP. The survey results might be very useful for other states considering using an arbitration program with a high jurisdictional limit. The article reports on lawyers’ opinions about pretrial discovery reduction, discovery costs, the pace of litigation, satisfaction with the program, arbitrator workload, arbitrator fairness, case value and complexity, and looks at differences in lawyers’ opinions depending upon whether the lawyers used contingency or hourly fees. Because most court-annexed arbitration program have much lower jurisdictional limits, the article also examines the survey results by case value – looking responses for cases valued up to

The Impact of Discovery Limitations on Pace, Cost and Satisfaction in Court Annexed Arbitration

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The Impact of Discovery Limitations on Cost, Satisfaction, and Pace in Court-Annexed Arbitration

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Book Review: Crime and Justice: A Review of Research Volume 22

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