Clinical trial NCT01378936: Jail-Based Impact of Crime Intervention
Official title: Phase 2 RCT of Jail-Based Impact of Crime Intervention to Reduce Recidivism, Substance Abuse and HIV Risk Behavior
Study type: INTERVENTIONAL
Overall status: UNKNOWN
Phase: PHASE2
Conditions: Substance Abuse
HIV Risk
Criminogenic Thinking
Shame
Guilt
Empathy
Keywords: criminal behavior
substance abuse
HIV risk behavior
criminogenic thinking
shame
guilt
empathy
jail inmates
restorative justice
crime
Lead sponsor: George Mason University
Sponsor class: OTHER
Collaborators: name: National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA)
First posted: 2011-06-23
Enrollment: 200
Sex: MALE
Minimum age (years): 18
Standard ages: ADULT
OLDER_ADULT
Accepts healthy volunteers: yes
Allocation: RANDOMIZED
Intervention model: PARALLEL
Primary purpose: TREATMENT

Brief summary: The purpose of this study is to evaluate whether the Impact of Crime (IOC) group intervention with jail inmates reduces post-release recidivism, substance abuse, and HIV risk behavior.

Detailed description: This project imports social-personality theory and research on moral emotions and cognitions to the applied problems of crime, substance abuse, and HIV risk behavior. The primary aim of this study, a Phase 2 Randomized Clinical Trial (RCT) of the restorative justice-inspired Impact of Crime (IOC) group intervention, is to examine the efficacy of treatment and to determine if changes in moral emotions and cognitions serve as mechanisms of action, explaining the impact of treatment involvement on reductions in post-release recidivism, substance abuse, and HIV risk behavior.

Eligibility criteria: Inclusion Criteria:

* Must be 18 years or older
* Must be male
* Must be currently incarcerated jail inmate
* Must be sentenced
* Sentence must be short enough to serve out sentence at ADC
* Release date must follow projected final session of treatment
* Must speak, read, and write in English with sufficient proficiency to use workbook and participate in group sessions
* Must be assigned to the jail's "general population"

Exclusion Criteria:

* Actively psychotic
* Assigned "keep separate" from other group members

Primary outcomes:
measure: Recidivism - Self report of arrests and undetected crimes
timeFrame: 3 months post-release
measure: Recidivism - Self report of arrests and undetected crimes
timeFrame: 1 yr post-release
measure: Recidivism - Self report of arrests and undetected crimes
timeFrame: 3 yr post-release
measure: Recidivism - Self report of arrests and undetected crimes
timeFrame: 5 yr post-release
measure: Recidivism -- official FBI records of arrests
timeFrame: 1 yr post-release
measure: Recidivism -- official FBI records of arrests
timeFrame: 3 yr post-release
measure: Recidivism -- official FBI records of arrests
timeFrame: 5 yr post-release
Secondary outcomes:
measure: Changes in self-reported shame-proneness from baseline
timeFrame: changes from baseline to post tx and 3 mo, 1 yr, 3yr and 5 yr post-release
measure: Changes in self-reported guilt proneness from baseline
timeFrame: changes from baseline to post tx, and 3 mo, 1 yr, 3 yr, 5 yr post-release
measure: Changes from self-reported empathy from baseline
timeFrame: changes from baseline to post tx, 3 mo, 1 yr, 3 yr, 5 yr post-release
measure: Changes from self-reported criminogenic thinking at baseline
timeFrame: changes from baseline to post tx, and 3 mo, 1 yr, 3 yr, 5 yr post-release
measure: Changes in self-reported substance use and dependence from 1 yr pre-incarceration
timeFrame: changes from pre-incarceration to 3 mo, 1 yr, 3 yr, 5 yr post-release
measure: Changes in self-reported HIV risk behavior (sex and IDU) from 1 year pre-incarceration
timeFrame: changes from pre-incarceration to 3 mo, 1 yr, 3 yr, 5 yr post-release
Other outcomes:
Locations:
city: Fairfax
country: United States
facility: Fairfax County Adult Detention Center
state: Virginia
Study officials:
affiliation: George Mason University
name: June P Tangney, Ph.D.
role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR
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