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This 3 page paper discusses whether or not defendants should be forced to take drug tests before trial, and argues that the procedure has not be proven to deter crime. Bibliography lists 2 sources.
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and pretrial crime rates. It also considers the question of whether these programs are ineffective (if they are) because they are based on faulty assumptions. Discussion In 1995, President Clinton
"directed Attorney General Janet Reno to develop and implement a universal policy providing for the drug testing of all federal arrestees before the decision is made to release them to
the community pending trial" (Henry and Clark, 1999). The reason for this decision is simple and seems sensible: Clinton observed that often the "same criminal drug users cycle through the
court, corrections and probation systems still hooked on drugs and still committing creams to support their habit" (Henry and Clark,1999). The President believed that if the criminal justice system intervened
at the earliest possible moment-immediately following arrest-it might be possible to get the offenders into treatment and break the cycle that leads through the system again and again (Henry and
Clark, 1999). In 1996, an agreement was reached to "implement pretrial drug testing in 24 of the 94 federal districts"; to help states, Congress increased funding that would support them
in their drug testing initiatives in the pretrial stage (Henry and Clark, 1999). The people who were tested were placed in two groups: "those who were tested for heroin use
and placed in drug treatment in addition to other supervision services, and those who were supervised but not tested for drugs" (Henry and Clark, 1999). The results were mixed: people
who underwent both drug test and treatment while they were outpatients had "much lower rates of criminal activity" than either those who were "supervised but not tested or treated and
those who received no services" (Henry and Clark, 1999). While this would seem to bear out President Clintons assertion, further study found that the program was not as effective as
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