NCJ Number
154256
Editor(s)
A J Lurigio,
G J Bensinger
Date Published
1994
Length
115 pages
Annotation
In October 1993, the Criminal Justice Department of Loyola University Chicago and the Cook County Adult Probation Department (Illinois) jointly sponsored a symposium on "Drugs and Community Corrections." This book presents the proceedings of the symposium.
Abstract
The Acting Assistant Attorney General of the United States first discusses the Clinton Administration's efforts to combat drugs and crime in America's neighborhoods. She emphasizes the need for government at every level to work together to counter drug abuse; she recommends that the criminal justice system incorporate drug treatment in institutional and community corrections. In the second paper, the Assistant State's Attorney of the Cook County State's Attorney's Office describes various State's Attorney's programs against drugs, ranging from the Narcotics Nuisance Abatement Unit, which assists citizens in eradicating drug dealing from their neighborhoods, to the First Time Offender Program, which provides adult and juvenile drug offenders with an opportunity to obtain drug treatment and expunge the drug conviction from their records. The Deputy Administrator and Chief of Court Services in Lake County (Illinois) then discusses how the drug crisis has affected probation procedures. This is followed by a summary of the American Bar Association's evaluation of Cook County's Night Drug Court, which was established to alleviate the overcrowded dockets that have resulted from an influx of drug cases in that jurisdiction. Other papers discuss Fast Track Probation (drug treatment and testing along with intensive supervision by probation officers); the need for a comprehensive treatment approach for drug-abusing offenders; the connection between drugs and crime; and constitutional abuses associated with the "overzealous" war on drugs.