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Peer reviewedWelch, Michael – Journal of Offender Rehabilitation, 1997
Examines the current strategy to combat illegal drug use and its effect on corrections. Reviews three schools of thought on drug-control policy and explores the assumptions offered by the public-health generalists, the legalists, and the cost-benefit specialists. Concentrates on issues of race, class, and alternatives to correctional warehousing.…
Descriptors: Correctional Institutions, Correctional Rehabilitation, Crime Prevention, Criminal Law
