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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