EFFECTIVENESS BANK alert: No crime reduction dividend from counselling drunk arrestees
Mike Ashton
UK government-funded pilot schemes found no crime reduction benefits from brief alcohol counselling
for arrestees under the influence of drink, contradicting hopes that arrest referral would help
quell late-night alcohol-related disorder. The schemes did however uncover many dependent drinkers.
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