Treatment of Drug Offenders : Policies and Issues

This text focuses on contemporary interventions and research in the area of offender drug treatment.

Topics covered include strategies and alternatives to incarceration across criminal justice settings, employment rehabilitation and related issues such as drug courts and clinical implications.

Developed for practitioners working with drug abusing offenders, students and policy makers, it highlights the current situation facing the US criminal justice system with expanded capacities and needs, largely fuelled by drug abusing offenders.