Transcript If you are a victim of crime

Nino Maddalena
Criminal Justice Manager
National Treatment Agency
Overview
The problem
Why should we be concerned about drug related crime?
The evidence
How do we know that drug treatment can make a difference?
What’s been achieved?
11 years on from the first 10 year strategy
Where do we go from here?
What threats and opportunities does the future hold?
Why it’s everybody’s problem?
If you are a taxpayer you will pick up part of the annual £15.4bn
bill for the crime and health costs generated by people buying and
using Class A drugs such as heroin and crack
If you are a victim of crime there is a strong chance it will be
drug-related. Estimates suggest that between a third and a half of
all acquisitive crime (shoplifting, burglary, vehicle crime, robbery,
etc) is drug-related. Around three-quarters of heroin and crack
users say they commit crime to fund their habit
The community you live in can be badly affected in a number of
ways, from the antisocial behaviour associated with drug dealing, the
activities of those under the influence of drugs (including discarded
needles), the violence associated with organised crime, and
prostitution.
Treatment effectiveness
The National Treatment Outcome Research Study (NTORS)
followed more than 1,000 problem drug users through treatment
It recorded significant reductions in offending, with rates of
acquisitive crime falling by half at the one-year point. These
improvements were maintained at various follow-up points.
National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE)
suggests the health and crime cost of each injecting drug user is
£480,000 over a lifetime.
For every £1 spent on drug treatment £9.50 was saved on
economic, health and social costs associated with drug misuse
Evidence of effectiveness of CJ interventions
Arrest Referral Schemes 1 and the Drug Treatment and Testing
Orders (DTTO)2 which showed that the average amount pent
on drugs fell from £400 per week at the start of the
intervention to £25 per week at the follow up stage
More than1 in 4 of those starting a new episode of treatment
in England are referred by staff working in the criminal justice
system.
1 http://www.kcl.ac.uk/depsta/law/research/icpr/publications/Doing%20Justice%20to%20Treatment.%20DPAS2.pdf
2 http://www.homeoffice.gov.uk/rds/pdfs/hors212.pdf
Stop press……
http://www.homeoffice.gov.uk/rds/pdfs06/r275.pdf
This study matches data
from the Police National
Computer (PNC) with the
NTA’s National Drug
Treatment Monitoring
System (NDTMS)
database on a sample of
opiate and crack users
who had recently offended
but had not been jailed
and had started treatment
in the community. The
number of offences
committed almost halved
following the start of
treatment and the results
were very much in line
with the studies that had
been based on self report
information
Where we came from?
2001 – Arrest Referral
Drug Treatment and
(monthly)
Testing Order (DTTO)
2000 assessments – England
and Wales
2001/02 - 4,854
commencements
Limited target group
460 (25%) engage in
treatment
Proscriptive and inflexible – 20
hours
Accredited programme required
What’s been achieved in the community?
Drug Interventions Programme
(DIP)
Criminal Justice Integrated Teams
(CJITs)
Testing on arrest
Required assessments
Restrictions on bail
Rapid access to treatment
Drug Rehabilitation
Requirements (DRRs)
Every week, over 1,000 drugmisusing offenders are engaged in
treatment via DIP
HO research followed group of 7,727
DIP clients and found that half
showed a 79% reduction in
offending over a 6 month period
Overall volume of offending was
26% lower following DIP
identification
Number of DRRs increased from
4,854 in 2001/02 to 16,607 in
2007/08 in 2007/08. Completion
rates 28% in 2003 43% in 2007/08
A work in progress – more to be done
Implementing the DIP review
Continuity of care
System Change Pilots – more joined up, more efficient, more
effective
Integrated Offender Management – addressing the
reintegration agenda and delivering case management
http://www.nta.nhs.uk/publications/documents/nta_criminaljustice_0809.pdf