EFFECTIVENESS BANK BULLETIN 7 January 2008
EFFECTIVENESS BANK BULLETIN 7 January 2008
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Patchy performance of UK offender treatment initiatives ...
Botched DTTO response to
crack using offenders ...
Treatment on bail makes little discernable difference ...
Testing on arrest scatter gun nets some extra treatment entrants ...
Testing children pointless but arrest referral offers early intervention
opportunities ...
‘Most promising' alcohol prevention programme tried with poor black US families
...
Self-financing resident-run houses maintain recovery after treatment ...
Concern over abstinence outcomes in Scotland's treatment services ...
In 2007 a clutch of government-commissioned reports shed light on the now superseded drug treatment and testing order and on new criminal justice initiatives under the Drug Interventions Programme (DIP) umbrella. Though phrased more diplomatically, verdicts ranged from pointless and botched through worthwhile but limited to distinctly promising, though the latter could only be said of the least drug-focused of the initiatives – arrest referral for under-18s.
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