Alcohol and Drug Offenders in the Juvenile Justice System: Are There Differentials in Handling?
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Published:1982-01
Issue:1
Volume:12
Page:89-102
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ISSN:0022-0426
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Container-title:Journal of Drug Issues
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language:en
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Short-container-title:Journal of Drug Issues
Author:
Frazier Charles F.,Potter Roberto Hugh
Abstract
The American stance on law and control policy relating to alcohol and drug use has been replete with vacillations. Decriminalization and treatment oriented responses have emerged alongside continued support for laws calling for stiffer penalties and stepped up enforcement. In this situation, concern has grown over the possibilities that liberal legislation is subverted in actual practice to serve other purposes. It is feared offenders may be coerced into alternative sentences in the name of treatment and that such treatments may ultimately be more restrictive than traditional punitive dispositions. The present study examines the dispositions of juvenile offenders at three levels in the justice system. Alcohol and drug of fenders are compared to other offender types. Our data show no significant differentials in the severity of disposition alcohol and drug offenders receive. Moreover, the data show that youths violating drug and alcohol statutes are no more likely than other offender types at the same level of offense seriousness of being coerced into treatment programs.
Publisher
SAGE Publications
Subject
Psychiatry and Mental health,Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health,Health(social science),Medicine (miscellaneous)
Cited by
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