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Reconviction Following Drug Treatment and Testing Orders

DescriptionA follow-up to the 2002 Scottish Executive evaluation of the DTTOs. This expands the original work by examining whether the pilot DTTOs reduced offending in the longer-term.
ISBN0-7559-3821-6
Official Print Publication Date
Website Publication DateOctober 27, 2004

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2004

RECONVICTION FOLLOWING DRUG TREATMENT AND TESTING ORDERS

University of Stirling
Department of Applied Social Science
Social Work Research Centre
Gill McIvor

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CONTENTS

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
CHAPTER ONE INTRODUCTION
METHODS
CHAPTER TWO FINDINGS
CHARACTERISTICS OF THE SAMPLE
CRIMINAL HISTORY PRIOR TO A DTTO
RECONVICTION FOLLOWING A DTTO
TIME TO FIRST RECONVICTION
OFFENCES COMMITTED FOLLOWING A DTTO
FREQUENCY OF RECONVICTION
CHAPTER THREE CONCLUSIONS
REFERENCES

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

I am grateful for the assistance of Linda Hutton, Scottish Executive Social Research, for liasing with the DTTO schemes and with the Justice Statistics Unit to obtain the data required, Carol Clethero and Sandy Taylor from the Justice Statistics Unit for accessing the data on previous and new convictions and Siobhan Campbell, Scottish Executive Social Research, for her helpful comments on an earlier draft of this report.

The views expressed in this report are those of the researcher and
do not necessarily represent those of the Department or Scottish Ministers.

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