ABSTRACT
Evaluations of drug treatment and criminal justice supervision programs rarely examine what goes on between consumption of the resources by a program and the outcomes produced. This chapter presents a study that takes advantage of an existing clinical trial examining the effectiveness of different treatment and supervision conditions for drug involved offenders. Using longitudinal interviews, urinalyses, and clinical and criminal justice databases, it examines the impact of two different approaches to treatment and supervision on internal processes and client outcomes such as drug test positive rates, rearrest rates, and employment rates. The chapter explains the methodology that will be used in the study to estimate costs and benefits as well as to understand variations in individual rates. Cost and outcome data collected as part of Cost → Procedure → Process → Outcome Analysis also allow traditional cost-effectiveness and cost-benefit analyses to be conducted to describe program performance.
