Coercing change: balancing rights, justice and health

Britain is undergoing its biggest change in drug policy and practice ever — and most of it without a shred of evidence to back it up. Despite mountains of evidence that community treatment works, criminal interventions, such as DTTOs, are still being extended, expanded and re‐invented across the UK — at huge cost to the UK taxpayer and at the expense of other forms of treatment. Neil Hunt is part of a pan‐European research study looking at coercive treatment within the criminal justice system. We reveal what the government is not telling us about their crime agenda.