How can anti-social, violent, and criminal behaviour linked to alcohol and drug use be addressed beyond traditional criminal sentencing?
Background
We want to build confidence and trust in a system that upholds public protection and creates the conditions for individual rehabilitation. We want to better support the probation service in using evidence-based decision-making.
Next steps
We can be contacted at the following email address: evidence_partnerships@justice.gov.uk.
Source
This question was published as part of the set of ARIs in this document:
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