TY - JOUR
T1 - Rehabilitation policy for drug addicted offenders in China
T2 - current trends, patterns, and practice implications
AU - Liu, Liu
AU - Chui, Wing Hong
N1 - Funding Information:
was provided by The National Social Science Fund of the People’s Republic of China [grant number 14CSH059].
Publisher Copyright:
© 2018, © 2018 Department of Social Work, National University of Singapore, Singapore.
PY - 2018/7/3
Y1 - 2018/7/3
N2 - Drug use in China is both associated with criminal behaviour and regarded as social deviance. Drug addicted offenders can either be assigned criminal punishment or compulsory drug treatment, depending on the severity of the crimes they have committed. Compulsory drug treatment is in many ways similar to imprisonment in China. However, both compulsory drug treatment and imprisonment fail to prevent drug relapse. The authorities have implemented methadone maintenance treatment and non-medical social work interventions, although they are still in their infancy. More efforts should be made to deliver post-institutionalization programmes to help ex-inmates stay away from drugs and crime.
AB - Drug use in China is both associated with criminal behaviour and regarded as social deviance. Drug addicted offenders can either be assigned criminal punishment or compulsory drug treatment, depending on the severity of the crimes they have committed. Compulsory drug treatment is in many ways similar to imprisonment in China. However, both compulsory drug treatment and imprisonment fail to prevent drug relapse. The authorities have implemented methadone maintenance treatment and non-medical social work interventions, although they are still in their infancy. More efforts should be made to deliver post-institutionalization programmes to help ex-inmates stay away from drugs and crime.
KW - China
KW - compulsory drug treatment
KW - Drug addicted offenders
KW - prison
KW - rehabilitation policy
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85048036652&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1080/02185385.2018.1482779
DO - 10.1080/02185385.2018.1482779
M3 - Journal article
AN - SCOPUS:85048036652
SN - 0218-5385
VL - 28
SP - 192
EP - 204
JO - Asia Pacific Journal of Social Work and Development
JF - Asia Pacific Journal of Social Work and Development
IS - 3
ER -
