How drug use affects the extent and nature of recidivism by serious young offenders
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This poster was presented at the NDARC Annual Symposium, 28 August 2012.
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Alcohol Related Crime in City of Sydney Local Government Area
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NDARC Monograph 63
Alcohol related crime in City of Sydney local government area: an analysis for the council of the City of Sydney.
This report has three broad aims:
A consultant to evaluate the Australian Capital Territory Drug Diversion Programs.
Diversion has become one of the most utilised policy interventions in Australian government responses to drug users . The irony is that many key questions about optimal system design remain unknown: What ought ‘best practice’ diversion involve?
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Completed
Australian police diversion for cannabis offences: Assessing program outcomes and cost effectiveness
Police diversion is one of Australia’s most utilised interventions for drug offenders. Yet fuelled in large part by methodological deficits there remain key gaps in knowledge about the outcomes and the cost-effectiveness of such approaches.
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Completed
Determining the impact of opioid substitution therapy upon mortality and recidivism among prisoners: A 22-year data linkage study.
Prisoners are a marginalised group placing considerable costs on society. They experience very high rates of drug dependence, health problems and premature mortality. Without intervention they are highly likely to come into further health risk.
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Current
Promoting compliance, ‘recovery’ and ‘desistance’: Comparative case studies of pre-sentence diversion schemes for drug misusing arrestees in Australia and England
There is a growing body of research evidence demonstrating the impact of a range of pre-sentence diversion options at engaging substance misusing defendants in treatment, and reducing illicit drug use and ‘related’ offending in both Australian and British contexts.
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Completed
Exploring the relationship between cannabis use and crime among adolescents
Within both the Australian and international literature, the association between substance use and criminal activity is well established. The nature of the relationship, however, is still widely debated with no overall consensus being reached on how crime and substance use influence each other.
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Completed