Prevention, community services and Proposition 36.
The Prevention Panel of the Therapeutic Jurisprudence conference presented several examples of community services and prevention policies that should be brought into the mix of services and supports for Prop 36 and for other court diversion programs. This article summarizes those presentations and suggests how they might be put to work as effective alternatives to incarceration.
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Community Prevention Planning Program, Institute for the Study of Social Change at UC Berkeley, California, USA.
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