Effectiveness Bank Matrix Bite: Treatment Systems to Reduce Alcohol-Related Crime and Safeguard the Community
Submitted by Mike Ashton
- 12 July 2017
Final cell of the Alcohol Treatment Matrix. The theme is set by an Australian review which argues that despite radically different starting points, criminal justice and treatment systems must collaborate to deliver treatment. We invite you to measure your own systems against its key ingredients for collaboration, and to ask yourself how far collaboration should go: Do ‘shared goals’ in practice become those of the criminal justice system? Ponder too why drinking is so prominent in sending thousands to prison, yet not in the services provided there. Read on...
