McSweeney, Tim and Stevens, A. and Hunt, N. and Turnbull, Paul J. (2008) Drug testing and court review hearings: uses and limitations. Probation Journal 55 (1), pp. 39-53. ISSN 0264-5505.
Abstract
The ability of the UK criminal justice system to divert drug-dependent offenders into treatment has been enhanced during recent years. Despite the rapid expansion of such coercive measures, research findings to date are equivocal about their impact. This article draws on qualitative data from in-depth interviews with professionals and those mandated to treatment by the courts to assess the uses and limitations of two defining features of court-ordered drug treatment in Britain and elsewhere — drug testing and court review hearings — as a means of promoting and monitoring compliance with the conditions of these disposals.
Metadata
Item Type: | Article |
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Keyword(s) / Subject(s): | compliance, court review hearings, drug treatment, DTTO, testing |
School: | Birkbeck Faculties and Schools > Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences > School of Social Sciences |
Research Centres and Institutes: | Crime & Justice Policy Research, Institute for |
Depositing User: | Administrator |
Date Deposited: | 27 Jun 2011 14:57 |
Last Modified: | 02 Aug 2023 16:55 |
URI: | https://eprints.bbk.ac.uk/id/eprint/3763 |
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