Coordinated efforts between law enforcement, courts, treatment providers, and social services to reduce reoffending, promote recovery, and address the underlying causes of drug-related crime.
Responding to Drug-Related Offending
Peer support on the “inside and outside”: building lives and reducing recidivism for people with mental illness returning from jail.
Abstract Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to gain understanding about the effectiveness of a forensic peer support program’s impact on reducing criminal recidivism. People with histories of mental illness returning to the community...
Peer-mentored community reentry reduces recidivism.
Abstract Most people released from incarceration in the criminal justice system return to prison within 3 years. To improve community reentry, national initiatives have promoted new and revitalized programming, including peer mentorship...
Building recovery capital through community engagement: A hub and spoke model for peer-based recovery support services in England.
Abstract There is a growing evidence base that recovery is contagious and its primary mechanism of spread is through peer champions and groups. This paper examines a model of peer-based recovery support services from Cumbria, England, that...
Conceptualizing recovery capital: Expansion of a theoretical construct.
Abstract In order to capture key personal and social resources individuals are able to access in their efforts to overcome substance misuse, we introduced the construct of recovery capital into the literature. The purpose of this paper is...
Measuring recovery capital for people recovering from alcohol and drug addiction: a systematic review.
Abstract Background: Recovery capital theory provides a biopsychosocial framework for identifying and measuring strengths and barriers that can be targeted to support recovery from alcohol and drug addiction. This systematic review analyzed...
Recovery capital: a systematic review of the literature.
Abstract Background: Recovery from a substance use disorder involves various supports addressing multiple interrelated factors. Recovery capital (RC) is a lens that could help identify distinct areas of assets that could be enhanced and...
Defining and operationalizing the phenomena of recovery: a working definition from the recovery science research collaborative.
Abstract A number of definitions exist for the concept of “recovery” in both the substance use disorder (SUD) and mental health (MH) fields. Previous attempts to define recovery have not reached consensus among experts within the field...
Do diverted kids stay out of trouble? A longitudinal analysis of recidivism outcomes in diversion.
Abstract This study evaluates the effectiveness of a police diversion program between 2008 and 2016. Youth participating in the diversion program were compared to youth not participating in diversion on the probability of, and time to...
Systematic review and meta-analysis of noninstitutional psychosocial interventions to prevent juvenile criminal recidivism.
Abstract Objective: To assess the effectiveness of noninstitutional psychosocial interventions in preventing recidivism among criminal adolescents. Method: We performed a systematic review and meta-analysis of randomized and nonrandomized...
Promising approaches to police–mental health partnerships to improve service utilization for at-risk youth.
Abstract Youth involved in the juvenile justice system typically have a high prevalence of mental health disorders. Although police are frequently the first point of contact for these youth, they are often not trained to understand or...