Intervening with Substance-Abusing Offenders

Intervening with Substance-Abusing Offenders
Author: Dianne Carter
Publisher:
Total Pages: 159
Release: 1998-03-01
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ISBN: 9780788141959

Recommends approaches to planning, implementing, and managing correctional substance abuse programs. Several themes are highlighted: there are effective treatment programs for offenders which counter the "nothing works" beliefs; security and treatment should co-exist and complement each other: there is a need for careful assessment and proper placement of offenders in the most helpful programs; systematic approaches and linkages should be established to provide a continuum of info. and services; and a variety of accountability and evaluation procedures and criteria should be used to measure the success of programs.