Historique
Périodique
Serial offending: evaluation of drugs courts
Auteur(s) :
BIRD, S. M. ;
MERRALL, E. L. C.
Année
2009
Page(s) :
1231-1233
Langue(s) :
Anglais
Refs biblio. :
12
Domaine :
Drogues illicites / Illicit drugs
Note générale :
Lancet (The), 2009, 373, (9671), 1231-1233
Résumé :
ENGLISH :
The UN Office on Drugs and Crime has announced that drug-treatment courts work. Evaluations from three continents consistently showed that drugs courts effectively reduce recidivism and underlying addiction problems of drug-abusing off enders, but by how much is not revealed. Instead, testimonials to success run along such lines as: Only 11.6% of those who complete the drug court programme run into trouble again with the law. The Ministry of Justice wants to evaluate four new drugs courts in England. Four have been established already without formal experiment: in Glasgow and Fife, Leeds, and west London. Process and cost evaluations, for want of power and a proper comparator, failed to quantify effectiveness at reducing recidivism or mortality in drug-dependent off enders. (Extract of the publication)
Affiliation :
MRC Biostatistics Unit, Cambridge CB2 0SR. Email : sheila.bird@mrc-bsu.cam.ac.uk
Royaume-Uni. United Kingdom.
Royaume-Uni. United Kingdom.
Cote :
A03917