Substance Abusing Inmates

Lior Gideon is full time faculty at the department of Law, Police Science and Criminal Justice Administration. He was born in Israel, and served in the IDF for 3 years in active duty and for another 13 years in the reserve. He holds a bachelors degree in Sociology with concentration on organizational studies and mass communication, Masters in Sociology, Criminology, and Criminal Justice Administration, from Haifa University, in Israel, and Ph.D. in Criminology from the Faculty of Law at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem, Israel. Prior to joining John Jay, Dr. Gideon has completed two years post-doctoral fellowship with the Bureau of Governmental Research (BGR) at the University of Maryland. During his fellowship he was the head analyst on a National Institute of Health founded grant that examined the outcomes of a seamless system intervention in a multi site study. He wrote his dissertation on drug treatment programs inside prison and social support networks outside the prison. While working on his Ph.D. he managed to establish good working relations with figures in the Israeli Prisoner Rehabilitation Authority, The Israeli Prison System, and also gained a very reach field experience in tracking and interviewing offenders, and released inmates. Dr. Gideon has over eleven years of teaching experience in undergraduate and graduate programs, both in Israel and in the U.S., and more then ten years of research experience (both as a principle investigator and as an analyst), and was involved in five different large scale studies among them a prison based treatment program evaluation, detoxification and rehabilitation of ex-prisoners, and violence against medical staff in non psychiatric hospitals in Israel. In his most recent research Dr. Gideon served as a project manager for an evaluation project on LSI-R and Proactive Community Supervision. Dr. Gideon also served as the head of statistics and research unit in the Israeli Court Administration research department, and he holds a good solid methodological knowledge. Dr. Gideon has received an award from NIDA, NIMH and NIAAA or his dedication to the field of methodology and services research.

Theoretical Framework.- Getting Substance Abusers to Talk.- There Is No Place Like Home—Family Role in the Rehabilitation and Reintegration Process.- Sense of Direction—The Need for Supervision.- What Do I Need to Succeed? Perception of Motivation and Its Role in the Reintegration Process.- Working My Way Out—The Challenge of Finding a Job.- Mentoring Others.- Dealing with Social Institutions.- What Does Migration Have to Do with Rehabilitation, Reentry, and Reintegration?.- Conclusion—Reintegration and Continuum of Care.