Abstract:Objectives: To explore differences in government costs among several subpopulations of offenders who were eligible to participate in California's Proposition 36, enacted as the Substance Abuse and Crime Prevention Act of 2000 (SACPA).
Methods:The study compared a time-lagged cohort of offenders meeting SACPA eligibility criteria before SACPA was enacted (N=42,706) to the first-year SACPA cohort (N=37,991). Difference-in-differences (DID), multilevel, multivariate, random-effects regression models that included… Show more
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