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Criminal Justice Interventions with Drug and Alcohol Abusers

The Role of Compulsory Treatment

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Behavioral Approaches to Crime and Delinquency

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This chapter examines the relationship between substance abuse and crime within a behavioral framework and considers various intervention strategies that can be implemented through the criminal justice system with substance abusers who become involved with that system. The broad intervention strategies covered are supply restriction, incarceration, community supervision, and compulsory treatment. These approaches, designed to reduce criminal activity and substance use, are all consistent with behavioral principles of response suppression. Other behavioral principles that involve strengthening of alternative prosocial behaviors have not generally been applied with substance abusers by the criminal justice system. From a behavioral viewpoint, the interventions employed by the criminal justice system have usually involved avoidance paradigms in which incarceration or other legal sanctions would be imposed as a consequence of inappropriate behavior. Avoidance contingencies have been applied directly by the criminal justice system in community supervision programs designed to suppress drug abuse in the community. These contingencies have also been used to promote participation of criminally involved substance abusers in drug and alcoholism treatment programs.

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Stitzer, M.L., McCaul, M.E. (1987). Criminal Justice Interventions with Drug and Alcohol Abusers. In: Morris, E.K., Braukmann, C.J. (eds) Behavioral Approaches to Crime and Delinquency. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4613-0903-1_12

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