6. special needs offenders - substance abusers
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CJCJ's Executive Director Daniel Macallair, is a practitioner-in-residence at San Francisco State University (SFSU)'s Department of Criminal Justice Studies. These slides are from his Community Corrections and Sentencing course materials.
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6. special needs offenders - substance abusers
- 1. Special Needs Offenders Challenges of Community Treatment 40 Boardman Place www.cjcj.org San Francisco, CA 94103 © Center on Juvenile and Criminal Justice 2013
- 2. Successful Treatment Providing support, understanding, and motivation to promote short and long term behavior change 40 Boardman Place www.cjcj.org San Francisco, CA 94103 © Center on Juvenile and Criminal Justice 2013
- 3. Special Needs Offenders in the Community • Substance abuser • Sex offender • Mentally ill • Developmentally disabled • Lifestyle offenders • Homeless offenders • Chronic unemployed offenders 40 Boardman Place www.cjcj.org San Francisco, CA 94103 © Center on Juvenile and Criminal Justice 2013
- 4. Types of Commonly Abused Substances • Alcohol • Stimulants • Hallucinogens • Depressants • Opiates • Marijuana 40 Boardman Place www.cjcj.org San Francisco, CA 94103 © Center on Juvenile and Criminal Justice 2013
- 5. Types of Drug Users • Experimenters • Floaters • Compulsive users 40 Boardman Place www.cjcj.org San Francisco, CA 94103 © Center on Juvenile and Criminal Justice 2013
- 6. Substance Abuse Intervention Models • Strict Abstinence with immediate Sanctions • Harm Reduction with permissible relapse 40 Boardman Place www.cjcj.org San Francisco, CA 94103 © Center on Juvenile and Criminal Justice 2013
- 7. Common Substance Abuse Treatment Methods • Drug testing • Alcoholic/Narcotics Anonymous • Behavior modification • Outpatient Treatment • Methadone Treatment • Residential Treatment • Therapeutic Community 40 Boardman Place www.cjcj.org San Francisco, CA 94103 © Center on Juvenile and Criminal Justice 2013
- 8. Examples of Treatment Models Methadone Treatment Therapeutic Community • Administered orally • 18-24 month program • Longer lasting effects • High end offenders • Combines in-patient and • Rigidly structured environment outpatient care • Uses peer pressure and • Monitored through testing confrontation • Focuses on re-socialization 40 Boardman Place www.cjcj.org San Francisco, CA 94103 © Center on Juvenile and Criminal Justice 2013
- 9. Effectiveness of Drug Treatment • Non-prison treatment seven times more effective than punitive sentencing • Two to three times more effective than traditional shorter sentences (1996 Rand Study) 40 Boardman Place www.cjcj.org San Francisco, CA 94103 © Center on Juvenile and Criminal Justice 2013
- 10. Substance Abuse and Crime Prevention Act of 2000 (Proposition 36) • Passed by 61% of California voters • Mandated new approach to treatment of substance abusers on probation and parole • Prioritized treatment over incarceration 40 Boardman Place www.cjcj.org San Francisco, CA 94103 © Center on Juvenile and Criminal Justice 2013
- 11. Key Terms: Substance Abuse • Drug of Choice • Psychological dependence • Poly drug user • Physiological dependence • Substance abuse • comorbidity • Substance dependence • Detoxification • Tolerance 40 Boardman Place www.cjcj.org San Francisco, CA 94103 © Center on Juvenile and Criminal Justice 2013