Advanced Search

Journal Navigation

Journal Home

Subscriptions

Archive

Contact Us

Table of Contents

Access Criminology and Criminal Justice journals now

Click here to sign up for SAGE Journal Email Alerts today!

Sign In to gain access to subscriptions and/or personal tools.
International Journal of Offender Therapy and Comparative Criminology
This Article
Right arrow Full Text (PDF)
Right arrow References
Right arrow Alert me when this article is cited
Right arrow Alert me if a correction is posted
Services
Right arrow Email this article to a friend
Right arrow Similar articles in this journal
Right arrow Alert me to new issues of the journal
Right arrow Add to Saved Citations
Right arrow Download to citation manager
Right arrowRequest Permissions
Right arrow Request Reprints
Right arrow Add to My Marked Citations
Citing Articles
Right arrow Citing Articles via Google Scholar
Right arrow Citing Articles via Scopus
Google Scholar
Right arrow Articles by Lemieux, C. M.
Right arrow Search for Related Content
PubMed
Right arrow Articles by Lemieux, C. M.
Social Bookmarking
Add to CiteULike   Add to Complore   Add to Connotea   Add to Del.icio.us   Add to Digg   Add to Reddit   Add to Technorati   Add to Twitter  
What's this?

Determinants of Expectation of Treatment Efficacy among Incarcerated Substance Abusers

Catherine M. Lemieux

School of Social Work, Louisiana State University, 311 Huey P. Long Field house, Baton Rouge, Louisiana 70803, U.S.A.

This investigation examines the relative influence of social support and other empirically relevant inmate characteristics on incarcerated substance abusers' perceptions of their post release adjustment. Survey data were collected from 101 male and female substance-abusing offenders participating in prison-and jail-based treatment programs in south Florida. Regression equations were developed using different measures of respondents' efficacy expectations. Among predictors, only social support proved significant (p < .05) in relation to respondents' expectations of their postrelease success. This investigation demonstrates the complexity of incarcerated substance abusers' efficacy expectations and identifies social support as a potential rehabilitative resource for counselors who work with substance-abusing inmates.

International Journal of Offender Therapy and Comparative Criminology, Vol. 42, No. 3, 233-245 (1998)
DOI: 10.1177/0306624X9804200305
Add to CiteULike CiteULike   Add to Complore Complore   Add to Connotea Connotea   Add to Del.icio.us Del.icio.us   Add to Digg Digg   Add to Reddit Reddit   Add to Technorati Technorati   Add to Twitter Twitter    What's this?