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This chapter* reports the results of a major meta-analysis on the effectiveness of programmes providing cognitive-behavioural approaches in correctional settings (such as prisons and jails) in reducing recidivism. It is part of a comprehensive detailed review and meta-analysis of the evaluation research on the effectiveness of criminal justice-based rehabilitation programmes for offenders in any form of custody. The overall meta-analysis is of primary research reports collected as part of the Correctional Drug Abuse Treatment Effectiveness (CDATE) project, a project funded for four years by the National Institute on Drug Abuse. The general nature of this project and a number of key methodological considerations have been described in some detail in Chapter 2.

As outlined in that chapter, the expansion of illicit drug use and associated crime has brought numerous abusers of illicit drugs into correctional facilities with …