Treatment for Drug Abusing Offenders during Correctional Supervision: A Nationwide Overview.

Lipton, Douglas S.

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ERIC Number: EJ566095

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Publication Date: 1998

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Treatment for Drug Abusing Offenders during Correctional Supervision: A Nationwide Overview.

Lipton, Douglas S.

Journal of Offender Rehabilitation, v26 n3-4 p1-45 1998

Discusses problems associated with the increasing number of drug offenders in U.S. correctional institutions. Explores the relationship between drugs and crime, the history of treating drug-using offenders, and efforts afoot in the Federal Correctional Options Program and the Bureau of Prisons to rehabilitate these prisoners. (MKA)

Descriptors: Behavior Modification, Correctional Rehabilitation, Crime, Drug Addiction, Drug Rehabilitation, Milieu Therapy, Outcomes of Treatment, Prisoners, Recidivism

Publication Type: Information Analyses; Journal Articles

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Language: English

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