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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2008 Feb 5.
Published in final edited form as: Drug Alcohol Depend. 2007 Jul 2;91(1):57–68. doi: 10.1016/j.drugalcdep.2007.05.011

Table 4.

Backward Selection Logit Model of Drug Court Impact on Recidivism

Odds Ratio Standard Error 95% CI

Drug Court Impact Measures
 Drug court indicator 1.44 0.351 0.89 2.32
 Time 1 0.46** 0.129 0.26 0.79
 Time 3 0.20*** 0.048 0.13 0.32
 Time 4 0.24*** 0.056 0.15 0.37
 Time 5 0.24*** 0.054 0.16 0.37
 Time 6 0.15*** 0.036 0.09 0.24
 Time 7 0.15*** 0.036 0.09 0.24
 Drug court*time 1 0.80 0.291 0.39 1.63
 Drug court*time 3 0.95 0.292 0.52 1.74
 Drug court*time 4 1.01 0.308 0.56 1.83
 Drug court*time 5 0.46** 0.138 0.26 0.83
 Drug court*time 6 0.75 0.243 0.40 1.41
 Drug court*time 7 0.72 0.225 0.39 1.33

Socio-Demographics
 Age (mean) 0.98*** 0.004 0.97 0.99
 Male 1.00 0.114 0.80 1.25
 Black non-Hispanic 1.19 0.128 0.96 1.47
 Hispanic 1.28* 0.158 1.01 1.63
 Other race 1.05 0.254 0.65 1.69
 High school graduate 1.00 0.099 0.82 1.21
 Some college or greater education 0.86 0.105 0.68 1.10
 Employed full/part-time 0.86 0.106 0.68 1.10
 Employed other 0.81 0.115 0.61 1.07
 Annual income of $10,000 + 0.85 0.086 0.70 1.03
 Social support scale 0.89* 0.041 0.82 0.98

Substance Use and Mental health
 Felt need for drug treatment at baseline 0.82 0.102 0.64 1.04
 Drinking scale at baseline 1.45 0.373 0.87 2.40
 Drug use scale at baseline 1.40 0.332 0.88 2.23
 Colorado Symptom Index (CSI) 0.98*** 0.006 0.97 0.99

Criminal and Incarceration History
 Arrests prior to baseline 1.08*** 0.012 1.05 1.10
 Prison stay prior to baseline 0.66** 0.086 0.51 0.85
 Public attorney 1.40*** 0.141 1.15 1.70
Probation Supervision Measures

 Drug offender probation supervision at baseline 1.13 0.174 0.84 1.53
 Incomplete probation contacts1 1.07* 0.032 1.01 1.13
 Completed probation contacts1 1.01 0.004 1.00 1.02
 Number of drug tests1 0.95*** 0.015 0.92 0.98
 Number of positive drug tests1 1.06 0.054 0.96 1.17
1

Indicates a measure that changes over time, from time period to time period

*

= significant at the 0.05 level

**

= significant at the 0.01 level

***

= significant at the 0.001 level