Exploring the alcohol and drug crime link: society's response

Bush, Robert
ISSN
0813-7005
ISBN
0642075999
Published Date
Subject
Alcohol use
Drug use
Treatment
Crime rates
Drug law enforcement
Drugs
Series
Seminar proceedings series
9
Abstract

The first section presents three key papers which examine alcohol and drug use and its link to crime from different perspectives. The next section contains papers which examine particular responses to alcohol and drug use in a variety of contexts. The next section covers structural issues, such as changing policy, law, its enforcement and health care provision. The final section presents the recommendations of three working groups covering social policy, pre-trial diversion and therapeutic communities/therapeutic approaches in prisons.

Proceedings of a seminar held 16-19 August 1983

Contents

  • Foreword
    R.A. Bush

Overview of the response to the alcohol and drug crime link

  • Opening address
    Brian Stewart
  • Drug control policy and the drugs-crime connection
    Dr Grant Wardlaw
  • The drug-crime link: dilemmas for policy makers
    Professor Ronald Sackville
  • The production of drug problems: creating and controlling
    Dr Margaret Sargent

Society's response to use

  • The relationship between drugs and crime
    Dr Jeff Sutton
  • Weekend, night-time drivers
    Dr Jane Hendtlass
  • Drink-driving programs: a health perspective
    Martin Baker
  • Law confrontation: a symbiotic approach
    Dr Pat O'Neil
  • Coercion and treatment
    Milton Luger
  • The therapeutic community alternative
    Andrew Biven and Danni Benton
  • Improving criminal justice and health care links: a report of a sociometric action research project
    Robert Bush
  • Alcohol and drug education: a correctional perspective in South Australia
    Peter Visser
  • A social analysis of drinking and its aftermath in a remote Aboriginal community
    Maggie Brady
  • A comparison of clients with alcohol problems referred by legal and non-legal channels
    Raoul Walsh

Society's response to supply through structure and policy changes

  • Availability of alcoholic beverages and crime: an example of the value of social policy research
    Ian Smith
  • The principle of diversion
    Des O'Connor
  • Some issues raised by intoxication and criminal responsibility
    Loane Skene
  • Drug law enforcement in New South Wales: policy and problems
    Detective Inspector Jim Willis
  • Cannabis policy: individual and social response to prohibition and an overview of the alternatives
    Tony Kew
  • Policy on the use of methadone maintenance
    Richard Baldwin
  • Treatment, the law and alcohol problems: a New Zealand perspective
    Keith Evans

Summaries of working groups and their recommendations for future directions

  • Social policy
  • Pre-trial diversion
  • Therapeutic communities/Therapeutic approach in prisons

Appendix 1

  • List of participants and speakers