Review article

DRUG ABUSE - PROBATION SERVICE APPROACHES, PARADIGMS AND WORKING METHODS

Snježana Maloić orcid.org/0000-0003-3899-0559 ; Ministry of Justice, Directorate for criminal law and probation, Zagreb, Croatia
Adriana Mažar ; Ministry of Justice, Directorate for criminal law and probation, Zagreb, Croatia
Anita Jandrić Nišević orcid.org/0000-0002-9076-0403 ; University of Zagreb, Faculty of Education and Rehabilitation Sciences, Department for Criminology, Zagreb, Croatia

Abstract

Since drug addicts often commit crime, they come into contact with the criminal justice system and become potential clients of the Probation Service. In Croatia, first probation offices and first probation officers have started operatingonly recently. Therefore, it is expected that with the increase in the number of persons involved in the probation, the number of addicts who will need help from the Probation Service will also increase. This paper deals with international approaches and strategies related to the problem of drug abuse and the current paradigm of working with offenders under the Probation Service supervision. It analyses the significance of drug abuse within the framework of the Probation Service, especially in the area of delivering reports when making various decisions in the criminal justice system, as well as working with offenders in the community. The paper also presents some specific modes and interventions that have proved to be effective in dealing with drug addicts, with a special emphasis on the problem of violation of conditions of probation, more commonly found in drug addicts. The paper gives a brief overview of the current situation in Croatia, offering guidelines for further improvement of working with drug addicts under probation.

Keywords

drugs; addiction; crime; probation

Hrčak ID:

118485

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/118485

Publication date:

14.3.2014.

Article data in other languages: croatian

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