The Evaluation of The Restriction on Bail Pilot: Final Report

Hucklesby, Anthea; Eastwood, Catherine; Seddon, Toby; Spriggs, Angela

doi:10.1037/e636342007-001

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“…The high rate of drop-out after assessment suggests that some criminal justice involved drug users may be being referred inappropriately to day programmes, when they have expressed no willingness or need to enter treatment. This was found, for example, in the recently published evaluation of the Restriction on Bail pilot [ 30 ]. It may also be the case that CJS involved clients need more intensive support to get them from assessment to treatment entry, as they are likely to be dealing with a number of problems including legal, medical and housing needs, as well as treatment needs.…”

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Early exit: Estimating and explaining early exit from drug treatment

Stevens

Radcliffe

Sanders

et al. 2008

Harm Reduction Journal

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Background: Early exit (drop-out) from drug treatment can mean that drug users do not derive the full benefits that treatment potentially offers. Additionally, it may mean that scarce treatment resources are used inefficiently. Understanding the factors that lead to early exit from treatment should enable services to operate more effectively and better reduce drug related harm. To date, few studies have focused on drop-out during the initial, engagement phase of treatment. This paper describes a mixed method study of early exit from English drug treatment services.

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Early exit: Estimating and explaining early exit from drug treatment

Stevens

Radcliffe

Sanders

et al. 2008

Harm Reduction Journal

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“…Without such qualifications, initiatives such as the UK proposal to withhold benefit payments to individuals who do not want to engage in drug treatment constitute another gamble with people's lives. Of equal concern was that the report concluded that the programme's success in retaining defendants in treatment and its impact on illicit drug use and offending was unclear (see Hucklesby et al 2007).…”

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“…Of equal concern was that the report concluded that the programme's success in retaining defendants in treatment and its impact on illicit drug use and offending was unclear (see Hucklesby et al . ).…”

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Elusive Evidence: Hard‐to‐Reach Drug Users and the Missing Values in Drug Policy Decision Making

Wilson

Hodgson

2012

Howard J Crim Justice

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The 1997 Labour Government's commitment to research‐based criminal justice policy held the promise of greater clarity in the drugs/crime link and evaluation of measures to tackle drug use. This article gives a critical assessment of the introduction of drug testing arrestees at police stations as part of the move to force drug users into treatment. The account supports the equivocal findings on the effectiveness of drug testing. It identifies how the rush for evidence with emphasis on quantitative methods conspired to leave the most marginalised problematic drug users hidden from the evaluation.

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“…Using legislation, emphasis was placed on fusing the treatment and enforcement strands of drug policy. This partly occurred through an expansion in the capacity of authorities to attach treatment conditions to bail if suspects are thought to have drug problems as well as through the growth of arrest referral schemes for both drug and alcohol (mis)users (Hopkins and Sparrow, 2006;Hucklesby et al, 2007, Hancock et al, 2012. Notably, it has also occurred through the increased power of criminal courts to attach conditions pertaining to either drug or alcohol use to sentences.…”

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Mixing drink and drugs: ‘Underclass’ politics, the recovery agenda and the partial convergence of English alcohol and drugs policy

Monaghan

Yeomans

2016

International Journal of Drug Policy

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Where policy is concerned, academic discussion of alcohol and illicit drugs frequently emphasises their disparities. This is understandable, to a degree, as the criminal law upholds a 'great regulatory divide ' (Seddon, 2010: 56) decades. Drawing on various policy documents and commentaries, we look at recent developments relating to the control and regulation of drugs and alcohol in the broader areas of criminal justice and welfare reform. We conclude that, although the great regulatory divide remains firmly intact, illicit drugs and alcohol policies are becoming more closely aligned, especially in regards to the respective significance of abstinence (or abstinence-based 'recovery'). Importantly, it is contended that this new historical direction in policy should be understood in reference to an evolving governmental concern for the apparently problematic behaviour of a social underclass.

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The Evaluation of The Restriction on Bail Pilot: Final Report

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Early exit: Estimating and explaining early exit from drug treatment

Early exit: Estimating and explaining early exit from drug treatment

Elusive Evidence: Hard‐to‐Reach Drug Users and the Missing Values in Drug Policy Decision Making

Mixing drink and drugs: ‘Underclass’ politics, the recovery agenda and the partial convergence of English alcohol and drugs policy

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