Justice and Diversion

New Brunswick jails aren't offering any addiction treatment or therapy for mentally ill inmates, according to the province's auditor general. Kim MacPherson's investigation into treatment in jails revealed a patchwork system where no one is...

In 2015, the team from the Department of Addictology (First Faculty of Medicine of Charles University and General University Hospital in Prague) in cooperation with our colleague from the Department of Community Medicine & Health Care...

The Ministry of Justice and the law created the system of early alerts (SAT) of Colombia, in order to monitor and alert promptly the emergence of NPS and changes in patterns of drug use, as part of the functions of the Observatory of drugs...

Abstract Violence risk assessment tools are increasingly used within criminal justice and forensic psychiatry, however there is little relevant, reliable and unbiased data regarding their predictive accuracy. We argue that such data are...

Abstract Background Much work has investigated the association between substance use, crime, and recidivism, yet little scholarship has examined these associations longitudinally among samples of recently released prisoners. We examine the...

Abstract Objectives: To estimate the prevalence of fetal alcohol spectrum disorder (FASD) among young people in youth detention in Australia. Neurodevelopmental impairments due to FASD can predispose young people to engagement with the law...

Mexican model of therapeutic justice program. Since there are 3 years ago began the program with these abusive users or dependent on drugs who have committed an offence. Currently, the program takes in 6 States of the Mexican Republic.