As we know today the war on drugs have failed, not only are non violent drug offenders risking their lives in prison, their causing corrections facilitates to be overcrowded and underfunded. It would seem that there should be other options rather than just sending non violent drug offenders to prison. There is no evidence that imprisonment reduces the likelihood of recidivism. Instead, we find compelling evidence that offenders who are sentenced to prison have higher rates of recidivism and recidivate more quickly than do offenders placed on probation.” There is one option thou, Drug treatment court. Although it may sound like a good thing to keep non violent criminals out of prison the fact of the matter is, Are Drug treatment courts more
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We need to get a sense why might regular court be more effective than drug court. What are some of the disadvantages of drug court. In my next article from the Australian institute of criminology Drug Courts:Issues and prospects, professor Toni Makkai argues that the failure rate of participates is too high. “There needs to be a allowable faliure rate.” according to to the “NADCP(National association of drug court professionals) 60-80% of drug court participates drop out prematurly”(makkai) although the failure rate may seem high drug court is a much better alternative for non violent drug offenders. Imprisonment has a very little effect on combating drug abuse. ” reatment like regular meetings, drug screenings that come with drug court are much more intrusive for the participates than a short prision sentence will ever be. While in prison you are locked in a cell often with very bad influences causing the drug problem to escalate into bigger problems. “We find no evidence that imprisonment reduces the likelihood of recidivism. Instead, we find compelling evidence that offenders who are sentenced to prison have higher rates of recidivism.“(Spohn, C., & Holleran, D, 2002) another fact is that the average recidivism rate for drug court members was 16% in the first year and 27% in the second.” That may seem a little high but compared to conventional probation where “46% commit a new offence and 60% commit a prohbation violation” its very
We need to get a sense why might regular court be more effective than drug court. What are some of the disadvantages of drug court. In my next article from the Australian institute of criminology Drug Courts:Issues and prospects, professor Toni Makkai argues that the failure rate of participates is too high. “There needs to be a allowable faliure rate.” according to to the “NADCP(National association of drug court professionals) 60-80% of drug court participates drop out prematurly”(makkai) although the failure rate may seem high drug court is a much better alternative for non violent drug offenders. Imprisonment has a very little effect on combating drug abuse. ” reatment like regular meetings, drug screenings that come with drug court are much more intrusive for the participates than a short prision sentence will ever be. While in prison you are locked in a cell often with very bad influences causing the drug problem to escalate into bigger problems. “We find no evidence that imprisonment reduces the likelihood of recidivism. Instead, we find compelling evidence that offenders who are sentenced to prison have higher rates of recidivism.“(Spohn, C., & Holleran, D, 2002) another fact is that the average recidivism rate for drug court members was 16% in the first year and 27% in the second.” That may seem a little high but compared to conventional probation where “46% commit a new offence and 60% commit a prohbation violation” its very