✦ LIBER ✦

Crime trends and the effect of mandated drug treatment: Evidence from California's Substance Abuse and Crime Prevention Act

✍ Scribed by John L. Worrall; Scott Hiromoto; Nancy Merritt; Dan Du; Jerry O. Jacobson; Martin Y. Iguchi

Book ID: 104021442
Publisher: Elsevier Science
Year: 2009
Tongue: English
Weight: 155 KB
Volume: 37
Category: Article
ISSN: 0047-2352
DOI: 10.1016/j.jcrimjus.2009.02.010

No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.

✦ Synopsis

The Substance Abuse and Crime Prevention Act (SACPA), implemented statewide in California in July 2001, mandates drug treatment rather than incarceration for certain nonviolent drug offenders. Critics of the legislation suggest that crime increased as a result of the legislation, but researchers have largely ignored this issue. Utilizing time series methodology applied across several independent data sets from Orange County, California, the effects of SACPA on crime were assessed. Results indicate that significant increases in commercial burglaries and paraphernalia arrests may have been attributed to SACPA, but the overall pattern does not support a conclusion that crime increased markedly.

📜 SIMILAR VOLUMES

Initial implementation of California's S

Initial implementation of California's Substance Abuse and Crime Prevention Act: Findings from focus groups in ten counties

✍ Mary Hardy; Cheryl Teruya; Douglas Longshore; Yih-Ing Hser 📂 Article 📅 2005 🏛 Elsevier Science 🌐 English ⚖ 176 KB

The Influence of Local Contextual Charac

The Influence of Local Contextual Characteristics on the Implementation of a Statewide Voter Initiative: The Case of California's Substance Abuse and Crime Prevention Act (Proposition 36)

✍ Garrick L. Percival 📂 Article 📅 2004 🏛 John Wiley and Sons 🌐 English ⚖ 127 KB

Contemporaneous relationship between sub

Contemporaneous relationship between substance abuse treatment and poly-substance use: Evidence from the Persistent Effect of Treatment Studies

✍ Sanjeev Sridharan; Jennifer H. Kawata; Bernadette Campbell; Ching-Wei Margaret T 📂 Article 📅 2005 🏛 Elsevier Science 🌐 English ⚖ 161 KB

Validation of the Alcohol Use Disorders

Validation of the Alcohol Use Disorders Identification Test and the Drug Use Disorders Identification Test in a Swedish sample of suspected offenders with signs of mental health problems: Results from the Mental Disorder, Substance Abuse and Crime study

✍ Natalie Durbeej; Anne H. Berman; Clara H. Gumpert; Tom Palmstierna; Marianne Kri 📂 Article 📅 2010 🏛 Elsevier Science 🌐 English ⚖ 546 KB