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BREAKING THE CYCLE OF DRUGS AND CRIME: FINDINGS FROM THE BIRMINGHAM BTC DEMONSTRATION
Author(s) -
HARRELL ADELE,
MITCHELL OJMARRH,
HIRST ALEXA,
MARLOWE DOUGLAS,
MERRILL JEFFREY
Publication year - 2002
Publication title -
criminology and public policy
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.6
H-Index - 33
eISSN - 1745-9133
pISSN - 1538-6473
DOI - 10.1111/j.1745-9133.2002.tb00086.x
Subject(s) - criminal justice , intervention (counseling) , government (linguistics) , criminology , drug trafficking , economic justice , drug treatment , drug , psychology , psychiatry , medicine , political science , law , linguistics , philosophy
Research Summary: We compared 137 felony defendants arrested before the implementation of Breaking the Cycle, a pretrial intervention with felony defendants that included drug testing, supervision, and drug treatment as needed, to 245 BTC participants. We found Significant lower rates of arrest and self‐reported drug use and crime among BTC participants during the next year. Policy Implications: Systematic intervention aimed at all drug‐involved felony defendants, not just selected defendants, is effective, but may encounter substantial challenges in achieving collaboration across criminal justice agencies, services providers, and levels/branches of government.