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Evaluating a Policing Strategy Intended to Disrupt an Illicit Street-Level Drug Market
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Corsaro, Nicholas; Brunson, Rod K.; McGarrell, Edmund F. – Evaluation Review, 2010
The authors examined a strategic policing initiative that was implemented in a high crime Nashville, Tennessee neighborhood by utilizing a mixed-methodological evaluation approach in order to provide (a) a descriptive process assessment of program fidelity; (b) an interrupted time-series analysis relying upon generalized linear models; (c)…
Descriptors: Neighborhoods, Crime, Narcotics, Crime Prevention
Reliability and Validity of Retrospective Behavioral Self-Report by Narcotics Addicts.
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Anglin, M. Douglas; And Others – Evaluation Review, 1993
Reliability and validity of self-reported behavior within a deviant population are examined using data from 2 interviews with 323 narcotics addicts conducted 10 years apart (1974-75 and 1985-86). Results complement existing reliability and validity studies of alcohol use, and suggest that quality information can be obtained from heroin users. (SLD)
Descriptors: Comparative Testing, Drinking, Drug Addiction, Evaluation Methods
Cumulative versus Stabilizing Effects of Methadone Maintenance: A Quasi-Experimental Study Using Longitudinal Self-Report Data.
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Powers, Keiko Ichikawa; Anglin, M. Douglas – Evaluation Review, 1993
Whether methadone maintenance treatment demonstrates cumulative (rehabilitative) or stabilizing effects on behavior of narcotics addicts over multiple treatment episodes was studied involving 993 addicts in a quasi-experimental design. Observed behavioral changes and longitudinal self-reports indicate stabilizing, but not cumulative, effects. (SLD)
Descriptors: Adults, Analysis of Variance, Behavior Patterns, Crime