Evaluating police drug diversion in England: protocol for a realist evaluation

• Main Authors: Alex Stevens (Author), Nadine Hendrie (Author), Matthew Bacon (Author), Steve Parrott (Author), Mark Monaghan (Author), Emma Williams (Author), Dan Lewer (Author), Amber Moore (Author), Jenni Berlin (Author), Jack Cunliffe (Author), Paul Quinton (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: BMC, 2023-11-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Abstract There is increasing international interest in the use of police drug diversion schemes that offer people suspected of minor drug-related offences an educative or therapeutic intervention as an alternative to criminalisation. While there have been randomised trials of some such schemes for t...