Organisational Functioning and Alcohol Treatment in the Criminal Justice System

This cell in the Alcohol Treatment Matrix explores the influence of an organisation’s structures and processes on how well it delivers treatment for drinking problems in criminal justice and allied settings. In the context of a market which drives treatment organisations to grow ever bigger, on the basis of US research we ask, ‘Is small beautiful?’, and explore how an organisation’s control responsibilities might undermine the quality of the therapeutic contacts it is able to impose on offenders. Read more...