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Drug Treatments in Criminal Justice Settings
Psychiatric Clinics of North America, 2012The available evidence suggests that drug treatment can lead to modest, but real, reductions in criminal offending for drug-using criminal offenders. Considering the scope of the problem of drug-related crime and the expense of dealing with these issues, even marginal improvements can lead to important aggregate savings in both economic and ...
Benjamin R, Nordstrom, A R, Williams
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The criminality of new drug users in Glasgow
British Journal of Addiction, 1990AbstractThe drug use and crime of 210 teenage licit and illict drug users were examined. Over 90% of the sample, including non‐users, soft drug users, opioid users and injectors, were obtained via the same ‘snowball’ of friends and acquaintances. None had been injecting for more than 2 years.
R, Hammersley, A, Forsyth, T, Lavelle
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The Criminal Responsibility of Drug and Alcohol Abusers
Journal of Drug Issues, 1994This article examines how the Italian legal system regulates the criminal responsibility of persons who have committed offenses while under the influence of drugs or alcohol. It points out the legal system's limitations and the options available to the expert in the context of decision-making by the forensic psychiatrist.
FERRACUTI, Stefano, Maurizio Marasco
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Drug Involvement in Criminal Assaults by Adolescents
Archives of General Psychiatry, 1974Fifty male, adolescent, assaultive offenders incarcerated in California were compared for drug use and criminal behavior with 80 nonassaultive offenders of similar background by utilizing semistructured interviews and a review of official records.
J R, Tinklenberg +5 more
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The Criminalization of Drugs. Drugs Before they Were Criminalized
2015This chapter traces the progress of global drug trades and the process by which the consumption and trafficking in drugs was criminalized. It notes that as of the beginning of the nineteenth century, drugs including opium and other such substances moved in global commerce as ordinary commodities.
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Chemical & Engineering News Archive, 2012
Manufacturers of so-called designer drugs, sold under names K2, Vanilla Sky, and bath salts, have managed to keep on the right side of U.S. law in recent years. For instance, when several states outlawed a number of synthetic marijuana compounds and recreational stimulants, these items remained legal for sale elsewhere in the U.S.
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Manufacturers of so-called designer drugs, sold under names K2, Vanilla Sky, and bath salts, have managed to keep on the right side of U.S. law in recent years. For instance, when several states outlawed a number of synthetic marijuana compounds and recreational stimulants, these items remained legal for sale elsewhere in the U.S.
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Drug Use and Criminal Behavior
Journal of Drug Education, 1978An overview of addiction and crime, as well as the attempts to link the use of drugs to the incidence of crime, is presented. In particular, crimes of violence, and sex crimes, are contrasted with non-violent criminal behavior, when drug-connected.
Ludwig Fink, Murray P. Hyatt
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The Criminal law's Nemesis: Drug Control
American Bar Foundation Research Journal, 1985Literatures on what governments should do about personal vices of all types-from gambling to commercial sex to recreational drugs-evolve in similar directions. They begin with cries of moral outrage and exhortations to proscribe; they end with research reports that contrast what ought to be with what can be, and call for regulation rather than ...
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Drugs, the Criminal Law, and the Administration of Justice
The Milbank Quarterly, 1991Are criminal laws against the sale and use of drugs such as heroin and cocaine helpful in maintaining a liberal community? Answering this question is partly a matter of political philosophy, but the answer also depends on judgments about practical effects.
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Illegal Drugs and the Criminal Offender
2020Although most assume that drug use causes criminal behavior, the causal nature of this relationship is rather weak in most regards. Drug users are likely to find themselves under correctional supervision, but rarely is this due to isolated drug use. Rather, most drug offenders under correctional supervision have other behavioral problems and are best ...
Anthony Walsh +2 more
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