NCJ Number
139402
Journal
Journal of Crime and Justice Volume: 15 Issue: 1 Dated: (1992) Pages: 1-186
Editor(s)
E J Latessa
Date Published
1992
Length
186 pages
Annotation
Nine articles on a broad range of issues pertinent to drugs and criminal justice address such topics as a causal model for Puerto Rican drug use, the relationship of drug use and trafficking to homicide, the Treatment Alternatives to Street Crime (TASC) program, drug testing of probationers and parolees, evaluation of prison drug programs, the effectiveness of drug laws, the criminal justice response to maternal prenatal drug use, and HIV (human immunodeficiency virus) and AIDS (acquired immunodeficiency syndrome) among U.S. prison inmates.
Abstract
The opening article applies Elliott et al.'s Integrated Social Control model to drug use among inner-city adolescent male Puerto Ricans. Based upon an analysis of homicide incidents in New York City over 8 months of 1988, the second article documents the extent and nature of drug-related homicides, followed by a third article that reviews the roots of TASC, its empirical and theoretical foundations, the current structure of TASC, TASC evaluations, and the future of TASC. Another article presents comparative results from the first 2 years of a drug-testing program for probationers and parolees in Louisville, Kentucky. Evaluation design, criteria, data, and outcome measurement are discussed for the assessment of inmate drug treatment programs. Two articles on the effectiveness of drug laws focus on political achievements in comparison with achievements in reducing drug abuse, and the failure of governments to provide the correctional resources necessary to comply with harsher sentences for drug offenses. The final two articles review the pros and cons of criminalizing fetal harm by pregnant women who use drugs and the extent of HIV infection and AIDS among U.S. prison inmates and consequent prison inmate health care requirements. Article tables, figures, and references