Working with the Addicted Offender (4 Hours)
Objectives
- Learn criminal justice theories and discuss their application in terms of punishment, rehabilitation, restorative justice, and deterrence
- Apply these theories to criminal justice as well as addiction
- Identify the strengths and weaknesses of each theory in terms of prevention and recidivism reduction in the offender with addiction or co-occurring disorders.
- Define criminogenic thinking patterns
- Compare and contrast criminogenic and addictive thinking patterns
- Identify behaviors employed because of these thinking patterns
- Explore the benefits to these behaviors and thinking patterns
- Identify interventions to address these patterns