Hps-456 Assignment #1 Health Care And Law

Health Care and LawNameAffiliate InstitutionDateHealth Care and LawIllicit drug use is a menace that has been plaguing the American Criminal Justice system more so because of its connection to a crime. According to the Centre of Addiction and Substance Abuse (CASA), 80% of prisoners in America have been reported to have some form of substance abuse history (Travis et al., 2014). Opponents of the incarceration theory as a means to reduce crime rates argue that incarceration has been ineffective in reducing crime rates, the criminal justice system has failed in reforming drug addicts and other factors have had significantly more impact in reducing crime rates as compared to imprisonment. The argument for incarceration as a means of crime control was more popular in the 1990s.It was estimated that crime reduced by 12% as a result (Walters, 2014). However, the use of limited data led to this conclusion and inclusive data suggests that the actual estimate was about 6%.Wagner & Rabuy (2016), opine that incarceration is a non-effective means of crime control. The study by the Brennan Centre for Justice found that the more incarceration,