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Psychosocial interventions vs treatment as usual to reduce criminal activity (re-incarceration) in female drug-using offenders
Summary of the evidence
Cognitive behavioural therapy was found in a systematic review (Perry et al., 2019a) to be more effective than therapeutic communities (one study of low quality) in:
- reducing criminal activity, i.e. arrested (not for parole) violations at six months follow-up (RR 0.43, 95 % CI 0.25 to 0.77, N=314)