Katy Holloway

Assisted Desistance and Treatment Needs

INTRODUCTION This chapter discusses treatment needs of arrestees and treatment methods provided for drug misuse. In particular, it looks at treatment offered by traditional programs aimed at drug users who voluntarily present themselves and treatment offered through court orders or other criminal justice processes whereby treatment for drug misuse as part of the disposal. The former is sometimes referred to as ‘voluntary’ treatment in that they are based on self-referral. The latter is sometimes described as ‘coercive treatment’ in that they are based on referral to treatment by the criminal justice system. One of the central platforms of the governments drug strategy is to tackle drug misuse and drug-related crime through treatment provision. To be effective, the strategy needs to encourage users who have not sought treatment to enter into treatment. It also needs to satisfy the demand for treatment of users who have sought treatment. It is also important that drug users enter into treatment programs that have been shown in the past to reduce drug misuse or drug-related crime. This chapter reviews the literature on the type of treatment services available and user demand for these services. It then looks at the level of demand for treatment among drug-using arrestees and the extent to which this demand is met.

Drug-Crime Connections: SPECIAL TOPICS

Drug-Crime Connections challenges the assumption that there is a widespread association between drug use and crime. Instead, it argues that there are many highly specific connections. Trevor Bennett and Katy Holloway draw together in a single volume a wide range of findings from a study of nearly 5,000 arrestees interviewed as part of the New English and Welsh Arrestee Drug Abuse Monitoring (NEW-ADAM) program. It provides an in-depth study of the nature of drug-crime connections, as well as an investigation into drug use generally among criminals and the kinds of crimes that they commit. They also explore topics that previously have fallen outside the drug-crime debate, such as gender and drugs, ethnicity and drugs, gangs, guns, drug markets, and treatment needs. The book aims to provide both an up-to-date review of the literature and a concise summary of a major study on the connection between drug use and crime.

Drug-Crime Connections: Index

Drug-Crime Connections challenges the assumption that there is a widespread association between drug use and crime. Instead, it argues that there are many highly specific connections. Trevor Bennett and Katy Holloway draw together in a single volume a wide range of findings from a study of nearly 5,000 arrestees interviewed as part of the New English and Welsh Arrestee Drug Abuse Monitoring (NEW-ADAM) program. It provides an in-depth study of the nature of drug-crime connections, as well as an investigation into drug use generally among criminals and the kinds of crimes that they commit. They also explore topics that previously have fallen outside the drug-crime debate, such as gender and drugs, ethnicity and drugs, gangs, guns, drug markets, and treatment needs. The book aims to provide both an up-to-date review of the literature and a concise summary of a major study on the connection between drug use and crime.

Drug-Crime Connections: DRUG-CRIME AFFINITIES

Drug-Crime Connections challenges the assumption that there is a widespread association between drug use and crime. Instead, it argues that there are many highly specific connections. Trevor Bennett and Katy Holloway draw together in a single volume a wide range of findings from a study of nearly 5,000 arrestees interviewed as part of the New English and Welsh Arrestee Drug Abuse Monitoring (NEW-ADAM) program. It provides an in-depth study of the nature of drug-crime connections, as well as an investigation into drug use generally among criminals and the kinds of crimes that they commit. They also explore topics that previously have fallen outside the drug-crime debate, such as gender and drugs, ethnicity and drugs, gangs, guns, drug markets, and treatment needs. The book aims to provide both an up-to-date review of the literature and a concise summary of a major study on the connection between drug use and crime.