Mike Collison of the Department of Criminology at the University of Keele reports on a study of the drug, crime and treatment careers of young male prisoners. He suggests that regular drug use is now so normal amongst young offenders as to bring into question explanations of crime which prioritise problem drug use and imply some therapeutic, or treatment, intervention.
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