Treatment of Drug Offenders
Subtitle: Policies and Issues
Contributors: Carl G. Leukefeld (Editor); Frank Tims (Editor); David Farabee (Editor)
Publisher: Springer Publishing Company
Published: January 2002
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 408
ISBN-13: 9780826123039
Subjects: Addiction & therapy; Rehabilitation Of Offenders; Criminology; Social Work; Psychology; Drug Addiction (Psychiatric Aspects); Treatment; Self-Help; Research; Psychopathology - Addiction; Substance Abuse & Addictions - General; United States; Drug abuse; Involuntary treatment
First sentence: The growing interest in treatment, clinical interventions, and rehabilitation activities of drug abuse and criminal offenders has been attributed to the burgeoning U.S. criminal justice population, currently at more than six million people under criminal justice supervision (Bureau of Justice Statistics [BJS], 1998) with increasing costs.