WHAT HAPPENS IF A CRIMINAL CAN CHOOSE BETWEEN DETENTION AND TREATMENT: RESULTS OF A 4-YEAR EXPERIMENT IN THE NETHERLANDS
In the Amsterdam region of The Netherlands, with 7000 drug addicts, 42% are estimated to commit criminal offences regularly. About 1500 drug users can be characterized as highly criminal drug addicts. The traditional reactions of the judicial system hardly contributed to a decrease in the number of these addicted delinquents. The Street Junk Project was therefore initiated in the late 1980s. In this contribution, the last 4 years of this project are evaluated. The Street Junk Project uses a forced-choice procedure in which arrested drug users can choose either a treatment or a detention option... Mehr ...
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| Dokumenttyp: | TEXT |
| Erscheinungsdatum: | 1998 |
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Oxford University Press
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| Schlagwörter: | Articles |
| Sprache: | Englisch |
| Permalink: | https://search.fid-benelux.de/Record/base-29175050 |
| Datenquelle: | BASE; Originalkatalog |
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| Link(s) : | http://alcalc.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/short/33/1/33 |
In the Amsterdam region of The Netherlands, with 7000 drug addicts, 42% are estimated to commit criminal offences regularly. About 1500 drug users can be characterized as highly criminal drug addicts. The traditional reactions of the judicial system hardly contributed to a decrease in the number of these addicted delinquents. The Street Junk Project was therefore initiated in the late 1980s. In this contribution, the last 4 years of this project are evaluated. The Street Junk Project uses a forced-choice procedure in which arrested drug users can choose either a treatment or a detention option. The project has been moderately successful. A number of organizational and logistic problems meant that the project made a smaller impact than has been aimed for originally.