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4.4 - Strength-Based Approaches to Addiction Recovery and Desistance from Crime

Broadening the Base for Community Engagement

from Part IV - Interventions

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 December 2021

By
Steve Broome  and
David Best
Edited by
Jennifer M. Brown  and
Miranda A. H. Horvath
Jennifer M. Brown
Affiliation:
London School of Economics and Political Science
Miranda A. H. Horvath
Affiliation:
University of Suffolk
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Summary

This chapter reviews substance misuse services in the UK in the context of change from market led to community-based approaches and presents what is known about what initiates, supports and sustains the process of recovery, desistance from offending and community re-integration.We also review the impact on service delivery, in a policy environment that has championed peer and mutual aid processes, and parallel this with an initiative deploying a similar model around violence reduction.We conclude with reflections on what the fields of recovery and substance misuse services can offer to the design and delivery of wider public services, and how developing recovery-oriented systems of care can inform the building of flourishing communities in which individual recovery capital is seen to generate and sustain community capital and community connections, that act at an individual level as well as being a preventative early intervention at the level of communities.

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RecoveryDesistancePublic ServicesCommunity EngagementStrength-based Approaches
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The Cambridge Handbook of Forensic Psychology , pp. 552 - 568
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2021

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