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About PCRC
Dr. Michael L. Prendergast, PCRC’s
principal investigator, is Director of the Criminal Justice Research
Group at the UCLA Integrated Substance Abuse Programs (ISAP). Dr.
Prendergast has extensive experience in substance abuse treatment
research among correctional populations, including treatment for
women offenders. He has been Principal Investigator of evaluations
of treatment programs in correctional settings in California: the
Forever Free Treatment Program at the California Institution for
Women; the California Substance Abuse Treatment Facility at Corcoran;
and 15 treatment programs at other California prisons. He has also
been Principal Investigator of several NIDA-funded studies: a five-year
follow-up study of participants in a prison-based therapeutic community,
an evaluation of the use of vouchers within a drug court treatment
program, and an evaluation of the relative effectiveness of mixed-gender
and women-only community treatment. He was Co-Principal Investigator
of the statewide evaluation of the Substance Abuse and Crime Prevention
Act (Proposition 36). He has also conducted three meta-analyses on
the effectiveness of drug abuse treatment. His research interests
include treatment effectiveness, research syntheses, treatment policy,
issues in coerced treatment, and treatment for drug-abusing offenders.
His work has been published in American Journal of Drug and Alcohol
Abuse, American Journal of Public Health, Criminal Justice and Behavior,
Drug and Alcohol Dependence, Journal of Drug Issues, Journal of Offender
Rehabilitation, and Prison Journal.
CJ-DATS includes nine Research Centers—at Lifespan Hospitals/Brown
University (Peter Friedmann, PI), University of Connecticut (Linda
Frisman, PI), University of Delaware (James Inciardi, PI), University
of Kentucky (Carl Leukefeld, PI), University of California at Los
Angeles (Michael Prendergast, PI), National Development and Research
Institutes (Harry Wexler, PI), Texas Christian University (Dwayne
Simpson, PI), NDRI Adolescent Research Center (Nancy Jainchill, PI),
and University of Miami (Howard Liddle, PI)—as well as a Coordinating
Center at University of Maryland (Faye Taxman, PI) and a NIDA Collaborating
Scientist (Bennett Fletcher).
PCRC Staff include:
Michael L. Prendergast, Ph.D., Principal Investigator
David Farabee, Ph.D., Co-Principal Investigator
Christine Grella, Ph.D., Co-Principal Investigator
Elizabeth Hall, Ph.D., Project Director
William Burdon, Ph.D., Study Director
Stacy Calhoun, M.A., Research Assistant
Jerry Cartier, M.A., Research Associate
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