ISAP Researchers' Profiles
Elizabeth A. Hall, Ph.D.
Elizabeth A. Hall, Ph.D. is a researcher in UCLA Integrated
Substance Abuse Programs’ Criminal Justice Research Group.
During more than a decade of substance abuse research, Dr. Hall
has managed multi-site projects investigating drug abuse treatment,
including as UCLA Pacific Coast Research Center Project Director
for Criminal Justice Drug Abuse Treatment Studies (NIDA, PI: Prendergast)
and as Co-PI for “Gender-Responsive Treatment Services for
Women Offenders” (NIDA, PI: Prendergast), and “Evaluation
of Cost Avoidance and Child Welfare Outcomes of Dependency Drug
Court Participants” (PI: Grella). She served as Project Director
of the “Therapeutic Community Treatment for Prisoners: Long-Term
Outcomes and Costs” (NIDA), “Evaluating Voucher-Based
Contingencies in a Drug Court” (NIDA), and of an evaluation
of the Forever Free Treatment Program at the California Institution
for Women (NIJ). Her responsibilities include managing and supervising
in-house and field elements of research projects involving drug
abuse treatment in the criminal justice system. She also serves
as a liaison between ISAP researchers and criminal justice agencies
in California.
Dr. Hall is the author of Staying in Touch:
A Fieldwork Manual of Tracking Procedures for Locating Substance
Abusers in Follow-up Studies, 2nd Edition and provides training
throughout the U.S. on follow-up techniques with substance abusing
populations. Dr. Hall has served as an adjunct professor at the
University of Southern California and as a Senior Associate at
IOX Assessment Associates, where she provided technical assistance
in evaluation to school districts and state boards of education
throughout the nation. In addition, she conducted large-scale evaluations
of prevention programs for the Centers for Disease Control Division
of Adolescent and School Health, the California Department of Health
Services, and the California Wellness Foundation. Dr. Hall’s
research interests include improving long-term outcomes for women
offenders and their children, improving drug treatment services
and effectiveness for criminal justice and child welfare populations,
and qualitative and longitudinal study methodology.
Education and Training
- University of California, San Diego,
B.A.,
1979,
Anthropology
- University of California, Los Angeles.
M.A..
1982,
Anthropology
- University of California, Los Angeles,
Ph.D.,
1991, Anthropology, Psychocultural studies & cross-cultural
child development
Specialties
Contact Info
UCLA Integrated Substance Abuse Programs
1640 S. Sepulveda Blvd., Suite 200
Los Angeles, CA 90025
ehall@ucla.edu
Selected Publications
- Prendergast, M. L., Hall, E. A., Wellisch, J., & Baldwin,
D. M. (2000). Process Evaluation of the Forever Free Substance
Abuse Treatment Program. (NCJ 183013). Washington, DC:
National Institute of Justice, U.S. Department of Justice.
- Hall, E. A., Baldwin, D. M., & Prendergast, M. L. (2001).
Women on Parole: Barriers to Success after Substance Abuse
Treatment. Human Organization, 60(3), 225-233.
- Kasarabada, N., Hser, Y. -I., Parker, L. E., Hall, E. A.,
Anglin, M. D., & Chang, E. (2001). A Self-Administered
Instrument for Assessing Therapeutic Approaches of Drug Treatment
Counselors. Substance Use and Misuse, 36(3),
273-299.
- Prendergast, M., Hall, E. A. & Wellisch, J. (2002). An
Outcome Evaluation of the Forever Free Substance Abuse Treatment
Program: One-Year Post-Release Outcomes. (NCJ 199685).
Produced by the UCLA Integrated Substance Abuse Programs
Criminal Justice Research Group for the National Institute
of Justice, Department of Justice.
- Prendergast, M. L., Hall, E.A., & Wexler, H. K. (2003).
Multiple Measures of Outcomes in Assessing a Prison-Based Drug
Treatment Program. Journal of Offender Rehabilitation,
37(3/4), 65-94.
- Hall, E. A, Zuniga, R., Cartier, J., Anglin, M. D., Danila,
B., Ryan, R.& Mantius, K. (2003). Staying in Touch:
A Fieldwork Manual of Tracking Procedures for Locating Substance
Abusers in Follow-up Studies, 2nd Edition. Los Angeles,
CA: UCLA Integrated Substance Abuse Programs. http://www.uclaisap.org/trackingmanual/
- McCollister, K E., French, M. T., Prendergast, M., Wexler,
H., Sacks, S., & Hall, E. (2003). Is In-Prison Treatment
Enough? A Cost-Effectiveness Analysis of Prison-Based
Treatment and Aftercare Services for Substance-Abusing Offenders. Law & Policy,
25(1), 63-81.
- Hall, E. A., Prendergast, M. L., Wellisch, J., Patten, M. & Cao,
Y.. (2004). Treating Drug-Abusing Women Prisoners: An Outcomes
Evaluation of the Forever Free Program. Prison Journal,
84(1), 81-105.
- Prendergast, M. L., Hall, E. A., Wexler, H. K., Melnick,
G. & Cao, Y.. (2004). A Prison-Based Therapeutic Community:
Five-Year Outcomes. Prison Journal, 84(1), 36-60.
- McCollister, K. E., French, M. T., Prendergast, M. L., Hall,
E. & Sacks, S. (2004). Long-Term Cost-Effectiveness of
Addiction Treatment for Criminal Offenders. Justice Quarterly,
21(3), 659-679.
- Prendergast, M. L, Cartier, J., & Hall, E. (2005). The
Transitional Case Management (TCM) Study. Offender Substance
Abuse Report, 5(3), 33-42.
- Grella, C., Greenwell, L., Farabee, D., Prendergast, M.,
Hall, E., Cartier, J., & Burdon, W. (in press). Organizational
Characteristics of Community and Correctional Treatment Providers. Journal
of Substance Abuse Treatment.
- Prendergast, M. L., Hall, E. A., Roll, J., & Warda, U.
(in submission). Use of Vouchers to Reinforce Abstinence and
Positive Behaviors among Clients in a Drug Court Treatment
Program. Journal of Substance Abuse Treatment.
Last updated -
04/09/2008
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