Gideon Lior
Department of Law, Police Science and Criminal Justice Administration, John Jay College of Criminal Justice, New York, NY 10019, USA.
Int J Offender Ther Comp Criminol. 2010 Aug;54(4):597-610. doi: 10.1177/0306624X09333377. Epub 2009 Mar 19.
This article presents a qualitative analysis of participants' perceptions of the importance of motivation in the detoxification and rehabilitation process. As part of an outcome evaluation of recovering drug addicts who participated in a prison-based therapeutic community, 39 participants (a nonrandomized subsample) are interviewed regarding their rehabilitation and reintegration experiences. Although many studies show that participation in prison-based drug treatment programs reduces the likelihood of recidivism, clients in this study suggest that other factors might be equally important, and in particular clients' own motivation to change their lives. This study raises some questions about the true ability of drug treatment programs to treat and rehabilitate drug-abusing offenders, diverting the emphasis from the treatment program itself to the participants' motivation to change. Findings are discussed in regard to prison-based drug treatment programs, after-release impediments encountered by inmates, and inmates' expectations of successful reintegration into the normative noncriminal society.
本文对参与者关于动机在戒毒和康复过程中的重要性的认知进行了定性分析。作为对参与基于监狱的治疗社区的戒毒康复者的结果评估的一部分，对39名参与者（一个非随机子样本）就其康复和重新融入经历进行了访谈。尽管许多研究表明参与基于监狱的戒毒治疗项目会降低累犯的可能性，但本研究中的客户表明其他因素可能同样重要，特别是客户自身改变生活的动机。本研究对戒毒治疗项目治疗和改造吸毒罪犯的真正能力提出了一些问题，将重点从治疗项目本身转移到了参与者改变的动机上。讨论了基于监狱的戒毒治疗项目、囚犯出狱后遇到的障碍以及囚犯对成功重新融入正常非犯罪社会的期望等方面的研究结果。
