1. Similar proposals have been put forward, and more readily accepted, in relation to other ?problem persons?. In particular, mental health reformers have long argued that the many mental patients do not require incarceration in asylums and mental hospitals, but can be better treated in the community ? see M. Miller,Evaluating Community Treatment Programs (Lexington, Massachusetts: Lexington Books, 1977), and the more sceptical accounts of A. Scull,Decarceration: Community Treatment and the Deviant (New Jersey: Prentice-Hall, 1977), and S. Cohen,Visions of Social Control (Cambridge: Polity Press, 1985).
2. See Miller,supra n.1, at the Preface and pp. 1?2.
3. T. Cook,Vagrant Alcoholics (London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1975).
4. Quoted inReport of the Home Office Working Party on Habitual Drunken Offenders (London: M.H.M.S.O., 1971), para. 6.7.
5. Report,supra n.5, at paras. 6.8?6.12.