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The American Journal of Psychiatry, VOL. 124, No. 2

Articles | August 01, 1967

A Controlled Experiment on the Use of Court Probation for Drunk Arrests

KEITH S. DITMAN; GEORGE G. CRAWFORD; EDWARD W. FORGY; HERBERT MOSKOWITZ; CRAIG MACANDREW

Am J Psychiatry 1967;124:160-163.

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Director, Alcoholism Research Clinic, UCLA Health Science Center, Los Angeles, Calif. 90024

Judge of the Municipal Court, San Diego Judicial District, San Diego, Calif

Assistant Research Psychologist, staff of the Alcoholism Research Clinic

Associate Research Psychologist, staff of the Alcoholism Research Clinic

1967-68, American Psychiatric Association

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The authors describe the differential effects of randomly probating chronic drunk offenders to one or another of three treatment conditions: a psychiatrically oriented community alcohol treatment clinic, Alcoholics Anonymous, and no treatment. No statistically significant differences between the three groups were discovered in recidivism rate, in number of subsequent rearrests, or in time elapsed prior to rearrest.

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