Adult-Felony Drug Courts - Publications and Resources
... they were invited to provide a written response, including any areas in which they plan to take corrective action. Pertinent responses have been included in this report as appropriate. ...
... they were invited to provide a written response, including any areas in which they plan to take corrective action. Pertinent responses have been included in this report as appropriate. ...
The Role of Subculture Theory in the Treatment and
... discussion. Further, this thesis is about subculture and addiction, subculture and how it has thus far been addressed, and areas that warrant additional examination can also be seen in the literature. The Crime and Addiction Relationship In one recent analysis of prison inmates, Sims (2005) found th ...
... discussion. Further, this thesis is about subculture and addiction, subculture and how it has thus far been addressed, and areas that warrant additional examination can also be seen in the literature. The Crime and Addiction Relationship In one recent analysis of prison inmates, Sims (2005) found th ...
NBER WORKING PAPER SERIES Hope Corman Dhaval M. Dave
... expanded the use and scope of “welfare waivers” to allow states to carry out experimental or pilot changes to their AFDC programs, with random assignment required for evaluation. Waivers were approved in 43 states, ranging from modest demonstration projects to broad-based statewide changes, and cons ...
... expanded the use and scope of “welfare waivers” to allow states to carry out experimental or pilot changes to their AFDC programs, with random assignment required for evaluation. Waivers were approved in 43 states, ranging from modest demonstration projects to broad-based statewide changes, and cons ...
At What Cost? - Open Society Foundations
... illicit demand for narcotic drugs and psychotropic substances.”1 They also agreed to convene another high-level meeting ten years later to assess how these efforts were progressing. This volume, which focuses on the experiences of people who use drugs and those who work with them, offers a partial a ...
... illicit demand for narcotic drugs and psychotropic substances.”1 They also agreed to convene another high-level meeting ten years later to assess how these efforts were progressing. This volume, which focuses on the experiences of people who use drugs and those who work with them, offers a partial a ...
Addiction Frontmatter 2/26/04 3:39 PM Page 1
... thereby “priming” it for other drugs, to the assertion that marijuana use introduces people to a subculture in which hard drugs are readily accessible. The gateway hypothesis has been the basis for a government ad campaign that portrays marijuana as an extremely dangerous drug. But not everyone beli ...
... thereby “priming” it for other drugs, to the assertion that marijuana use introduces people to a subculture in which hard drugs are readily accessible. The gateway hypothesis has been the basis for a government ad campaign that portrays marijuana as an extremely dangerous drug. But not everyone beli ...
1 - Khayelitsha Commission of Inquiry
... (2000) argue that poverty and unemployment are not necessarily linked to high crime levels. For example, Gauteng, where unemployment levels are low by South African standards, crime is high. Whereas the Eastern Cape has some of the country’s poorest yet crime levels are below the national averages. ...
... (2000) argue that poverty and unemployment are not necessarily linked to high crime levels. For example, Gauteng, where unemployment levels are low by South African standards, crime is high. Whereas the Eastern Cape has some of the country’s poorest yet crime levels are below the national averages. ...
note the impact of mandatory minimum
... Ashley Gilpin* I. INTRODUCTION Prisons in countries throughout the world are increasing in population and becoming burdens on governmental budgets. While some attribute this phenomenon to an increase in crime, the sentencing practices of such countries often play an even larger role. For example, wi ...
... Ashley Gilpin* I. INTRODUCTION Prisons in countries throughout the world are increasing in population and becoming burdens on governmental budgets. While some attribute this phenomenon to an increase in crime, the sentencing practices of such countries often play an even larger role. For example, wi ...
A Good Score?: Examining Twenty Years of Drug Courts in the
... In theory, this approach is therapeutic and aimed at treating the cause of the offender‘s behavior as opposed to punishing the offender for his or her behavior. In reality, the effectiveness of these programs at providing appropriate treatment, protecting individual rights, and reducing recidivism h ...
... In theory, this approach is therapeutic and aimed at treating the cause of the offender‘s behavior as opposed to punishing the offender for his or her behavior. In reality, the effectiveness of these programs at providing appropriate treatment, protecting individual rights, and reducing recidivism h ...
between prohibition and legalization the dutch experiment in drug
... between moral/political right and moral/political left, but rather has gone through a process of de-escalating significance, very different from countries like the U.S. and Germany. Modern Dutch drug policy is based on two principles: combatting large-scale drug trafficking (through law enforcement) ...
... between moral/political right and moral/political left, but rather has gone through a process of de-escalating significance, very different from countries like the U.S. and Germany. Modern Dutch drug policy is based on two principles: combatting large-scale drug trafficking (through law enforcement) ...
Florida`s Prescription Drug Diversion and Abuse Roadmap
... seven Floridians die on average each day from prescription drug-related overdoses. Florida’s communities suffer from prescription drug addiction due to increasing health care costs and a growing proportion of prescription drug diversion fueled crime. Worst of all, doctors and nurses are reporting in ...
... seven Floridians die on average each day from prescription drug-related overdoses. Florida’s communities suffer from prescription drug addiction due to increasing health care costs and a growing proportion of prescription drug diversion fueled crime. Worst of all, doctors and nurses are reporting in ...
Tamara L. Roleff, Book Editor
... In response to these two rulings, Health Canada implemented an application process for patients to grow their own supply of marijuana. In addition, the Cannabis Reform Bill was introduced into the House of Commons in May 2003. Under the proposed bill, possession of small amounts of marijuana would b ...
... In response to these two rulings, Health Canada implemented an application process for patients to grow their own supply of marijuana. In addition, the Cannabis Reform Bill was introduced into the House of Commons in May 2003. Under the proposed bill, possession of small amounts of marijuana would b ...
Addicted to Courts - Justice Policy Institute
... in the U.S. are classified with substance abuse or dependence for drugs and/or alcohol,20 but less than a quarter of them receive treatment. For those who do receive treatment for a drug addiction, over a third, 37 percent, are referred by the criminal justic ...
... in the U.S. are classified with substance abuse or dependence for drugs and/or alcohol,20 but less than a quarter of them receive treatment. For those who do receive treatment for a drug addiction, over a third, 37 percent, are referred by the criminal justic ...
Policing for Profit: The Drug War`s Hidden Economic Agenda
... prosecution, 2 ' the plea bargains that favor drug kingpins and penalize the "mules" without assets to trade,22 the reverse stings that target drug buyers rather than drug sellers,'m the overkill in agencies involved even in minor arrests,' the massive shift towards federal jurisdiction over local l ...
... prosecution, 2 ' the plea bargains that favor drug kingpins and penalize the "mules" without assets to trade,22 the reverse stings that target drug buyers rather than drug sellers,'m the overkill in agencies involved even in minor arrests,' the massive shift towards federal jurisdiction over local l ...
Programme for Central Asia 2015-2019
... capacity and standards of state infrastructure, ensuring the independence of the judiciary system, improving the legal base for the implementation of citizens' rights to access to justice, fair trial and humane conditions of detention. 3.3.3 Drug use. The trafficking of Afghan opiates is harmful in ...
... capacity and standards of state infrastructure, ensuring the independence of the judiciary system, improving the legal base for the implementation of citizens' rights to access to justice, fair trial and humane conditions of detention. 3.3.3 Drug use. The trafficking of Afghan opiates is harmful in ...
chapter 5 - MHHE.com
... about when or where such insemination can take place. As norms vary from one society to the next and from one time to another, so too does deviance. A social audience, through the application of norms, decides whether or not some behavior is deviant. To the Etoro of New Guinea, sexual activity invol ...
... about when or where such insemination can take place. As norms vary from one society to the next and from one time to another, so too does deviance. A social audience, through the application of norms, decides whether or not some behavior is deviant. To the Etoro of New Guinea, sexual activity invol ...
Stockport Drug and Alcohol Strategy
... and Multi-Agency Safeguarding Hub (MASH). Substance misuse will remain a priority area for intervention within the new structures. Parents, as well as schools, have a key role in influencing whether or not and how young people drink or use drugs, and we will therefore develop and pilot an evidence-b ...
... and Multi-Agency Safeguarding Hub (MASH). Substance misuse will remain a priority area for intervention within the new structures. Parents, as well as schools, have a key role in influencing whether or not and how young people drink or use drugs, and we will therefore develop and pilot an evidence-b ...
Crime and Incarceration in the 1990s
... The NCVS estimates are based on self-reports by victims of crimes and include crimes not reported to the police. The figures used in this report are taken from the UCR crime index rather than the NCVS because they provide state-level data allowing for comparisons among individual states. In addition ...
... The NCVS estimates are based on self-reports by victims of crimes and include crimes not reported to the police. The figures used in this report are taken from the UCR crime index rather than the NCVS because they provide state-level data allowing for comparisons among individual states. In addition ...
The Relationship Between Economic Conditions, Policing, and
... crime is a rational act based on opportunity and risk on the part of the offender. This can be a questionable assumption to make. There is much evidence that criminals—at best—engage in limited rational decision making and, therefore, these theories may have limited explanatory power. Such explanati ...
... crime is a rational act based on opportunity and risk on the part of the offender. This can be a questionable assumption to make. There is much evidence that criminals—at best—engage in limited rational decision making and, therefore, these theories may have limited explanatory power. Such explanati ...
1 The Politics of Punishment in the War on Drugs
... investigates how race continued to be a factor in the policies of the War on Drugs, even though the rhetoric has shifted to one of the budget crisis imposed by the harsh sentencing policies. The Rhetoric of Tough on Crime The creation of the War on Drugs and its escalation to the modern magnitude r ...
... investigates how race continued to be a factor in the policies of the War on Drugs, even though the rhetoric has shifted to one of the budget crisis imposed by the harsh sentencing policies. The Rhetoric of Tough on Crime The creation of the War on Drugs and its escalation to the modern magnitude r ...
Reducing the alcohol and drug toll Victoria`s plan
... drugs. It will build a healthy culture of individual responsibility. It will ensure Victorian streets and communities are safer, and it will ensure more determined action is taken to prevent and respond to violence, especially against women and children. It will strengthen the resilience of us all, ...
... drugs. It will build a healthy culture of individual responsibility. It will ensure Victorian streets and communities are safer, and it will ensure more determined action is taken to prevent and respond to violence, especially against women and children. It will strengthen the resilience of us all, ...
Marijuana for Non-Therapeutic Purposes (Policy Brief)
... The enforcement of marijuana laws has a significant impact on Canada’s enforcement and criminal justice resources. More than half of the drug crimes reported by police in 2013 were for the possession of marijuana.6 However, most police encounters for marijuana possession do not result in charges. Fu ...
... The enforcement of marijuana laws has a significant impact on Canada’s enforcement and criminal justice resources. More than half of the drug crimes reported by police in 2013 were for the possession of marijuana.6 However, most police encounters for marijuana possession do not result in charges. Fu ...
preprint - Department of Economics
... over time. Offenses that in eighteenth century Europe were punished by torture and death now carry only prison sentences. Similarly, the penalties imposed for crimes vary significantly between countries. What factors account for these differences? BECKER [1968] analyzes a model in which an individua ...
... over time. Offenses that in eighteenth century Europe were punished by torture and death now carry only prison sentences. Similarly, the penalties imposed for crimes vary significantly between countries. What factors account for these differences? BECKER [1968] analyzes a model in which an individua ...
Targeting Blacks - Human Rights Watch
... 2003 in the 34 reporting states form just part of the unknown numbers of African Americans who have been incarcerated over the past two-and-a-half decades at rates greatly disproportionate to whites.7 Since the mid-1980s, the nation’s drug problem has been perceived to be primarily an urban black pr ...
... 2003 in the 34 reporting states form just part of the unknown numbers of African Americans who have been incarcerated over the past two-and-a-half decades at rates greatly disproportionate to whites.7 Since the mid-1980s, the nation’s drug problem has been perceived to be primarily an urban black pr ...
NATIONAL DRUG CONTROL STR ATEGY 2014
... Throughout 2013, the Administration continued to play a leading role in advancing drug policy reform, beginning with the release of the 2013 National Drug Control Strategy, which called for an approach rooted in scientific research on addiction, evidence-based prevention programs, increased access t ...
... Throughout 2013, the Administration continued to play a leading role in advancing drug policy reform, beginning with the release of the 2013 National Drug Control Strategy, which called for an approach rooted in scientific research on addiction, evidence-based prevention programs, increased access t ...
One Size Does Not Fit All: A Look at the Disproportionate Effects Of
... themselves destroy lives, it is also inherently true that American anti– drug policies impose significant costs, burdens, and aggregate harm on society.15 Although incarceration is an important function of the criminal justice system, prison should not be the only mechanism for dealing with an indiv ...
... themselves destroy lives, it is also inherently true that American anti– drug policies impose significant costs, burdens, and aggregate harm on society.15 Although incarceration is an important function of the criminal justice system, prison should not be the only mechanism for dealing with an indiv ...