Treating Substance Abusers in Correctional Contexts : New Understandings, New Modalities

ISBN-13: 9780789022776 / Angielski / Twarda / 2004 / 254 str.

Nathaniel J. Pallone; Nathaniel J. Pallone

Opis

Analyzes the shift in policy and attitude away from two decades of the harsh punishment that characterized the war on drugs toward a more treatment-oriented 'medicalization' of the problem.

Spis treści

• Editor’s Foreword: Watching History Unfold, Again—or: Back to the Future?
• To Punish or to Treat: Substance Abuse Within the Context of Oscillating Attitudes Toward Correctional Rehabilitation
• Perceptions of a Prison-Based Substance Abuse Treatment Program Among Some Staff and Participants
• Illicit Drug and Injecting Equipment Markets Inside English Prisons: A Qualitative Study
• Multiple Measures of Outcome in Assessing a Prison-Based Drug Treatment Program
• Differential Impact of Deterrence vs. Rehabilitation as Drug Interventions on Recidivism After 36 Months
• Criminal Violence and Drug Use: An Exploratory Study Among Substance Abusers in Residential Treatment
• RSAT Programs for Young Offenders in California: A Descriptive Study
• Predicting Retention of Drug Court Participants Using Event History Analysis
• Treating Substance Abuse Offenders in the Southwestern United States: A Report Evaluating the Long-Term Effectiveness of the Yuma County Adult Drug Court
• Factors in Successful Relapse Prevention Among Hong Kong Drug Addicts
• A Crack Kid Grows Up: A Clinical Case Report
• Index of Names and Topics
• Reference Notes Included

O autorze

Letitia C Pallone