Coercing change: balancing rights, justice and health

Abstract

Britain is undergoing its biggest change in drug policy and practice ever — and most of it without a shred of evidence to back it up. Despite mountains of evidence that community treatment works, criminal interventions, such as DTTOs, are still being extended, expanded and re‐invented across the UK — at huge cost to the UK taxpayer and at the expense of other forms of treatment. Neil Hunt is part of a pan‐European research study looking at coercive treatment within the criminal justice system. We reveal what the government is not telling us about their crime agenda.

Citation

Hunt, N. (2005), "Coercing change: balancing rights, justice and health", Drugs and Alcohol Today, Vol. 5 No. 3, pp. 28-33. https://doi.org/10.1108/17459265200500044