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STUDY 2012 HTM file
Adaptive programming improves outcomes in drug court: an experimental trial
Latest in an impressively coherent and persistent series of studies of how US courts specialising in supervision and treatment of drug-related offenders can do more to reduce drug use and crime. Triaging offenders to more or less intensive programmes and then adjusting based on actual progress made significant differences.
STUDY 2018 HTM file
Effect of initiating drug treatment on the risk of drug-related poisoning death and acquisitive crime among offending heroin users
At issue was whether by successfully referring heroin users to treatment, probation services in England would protect them from fatal overdose and prevent drug-related crime. Yes to one, but not the other, were the answers; in fact, crime went up.
STUDY 2016 HTM file
Establishing a ‘Corstonian’ continuous care pathway for drug using female prisoners: Linking drug recovery wings and women’s community services
How do drug recovery wings in women’s prisons compare with best practice in Baroness Corston’s 2007 report to the Home Office?
REVIEW 2015 HTM file
The effectiveness and cost-effectiveness of diversion and aftercare programmes for offenders using class A drugs: a systematic review and economic evaluation
Although diversionary schemes continue to be a strategic focus for policy in relation to tackling drug-related problems, UK review finds that the evidence base for the effectiveness of these schemes is lacking.
STUDY 2008 HTM file
Treatment on bail makes little discernable difference
In 2004-5 three English areas piloted a court order which made assessment and if indicated treatment a condition of non-custodial bail. It prompted some defendants to enter treatment but impacts on retention, offending and imprisonment could not be shown.
STUDY 1999 PDF file 172Kb
Arrest referral cost-effective way to cut drug-related offending
Synthesis of research on arrest referral schemes in Brighton, Derby and Southwark estimates that such schemes would break even by preventing just four crimes per successful referral.
STUDY 1999 PDF file 217Kb
Arrest referral breaks drugs-crime cycle
Early UK report clarified what makes for a successful arrest referral scheme based on experience at three schemes which adopted the 'proactive' approach of initiating contact with arrestees or offenders thought to be problem drug users.
STUDY 1999 PDF file 224Kb
Coerced arrest referral as early intervention
UK studies show that 'incentive' schemes (diversion from prosecution for offenders who address their drug use) may intercept the careers of young, casual drug users and avoid costly proceedings but are not applicable to criminally active, dependent users.
STUDY 2003 PDF file 148Kb
Arrest referral tackles drug-driven crime
Interim report of the first national evaluation suggests that voluntary arrest referral schemes in Britain reach many thousands of criminally active but previously untreated drug users and contribute to reductions in drug use and crime.
STUDY 2008 HTM file
Testing on arrest scatter gun nets some extra treatment entrants
Starting in April 2006, drug testing on arrest and mandatory assessment for heroin or cocaine users netted more drug users but at the cost of net-widening to low-level offenders and perhaps just 1% of all those tested stayed in treatment for 12 weeks.
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