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Wir sind gerne für Sie daExamine an innovative strategy for fighting the war on drugs!Drug Courts in Operation: Current Research provides an in-depth look at an increasingly utilized approach to rehabilitating substance abusers. Drug courts offer their participants a chance to better themselves by providing support and structure to those that do not have it in their life, offering substance abusers a chance to participate in rehabilitation in lieu of incarceration. This insightful book examines the history of drug courts as a principal treatment alternative to incarceration, outlines the risk factors of children living with drug-addicted parents, and introduces a program to help strengthen families.The book delivers vital information on: - introducing programs to help prevent narcotic use by children with drug-addicted parents - the need for cultural- and gender-specific treatment plans, especially in the treatment of women and African-American males - treatment dosage effects - the importance of length of participation to outcomes - focus groups designed to help drug court participants with their employment needs - predictors of engagement in court-mandated treatment programs - how legal coercion of high-risk patients via the threat of incarceration motivates participants to succeed
Produkteigenschaften
- Artikelnummer: 9780789016942
- Medium: Buch
- ISBN: 978-0-7890-1694-2
- Verlag: CRC Press
- Erscheinungstermin: 07.05.2002
- Sprache(n): Englisch
- Auflage: 1. Auflage 2002
- Produktform: Gebunden
- Gewicht: 408 g
- Seiten: 144
- Format (B x H): 152 x 229 mm
- Ausgabetyp: Kein, Unbekannt