Diversion of Drug Offenders and Drug Dependent Offenders from the Criminal Justice System: A Briefing Paper

In April 1999, the Research and Prevention Division of the Criminal Justice Commission published a Briefing Paper titled Police Cautioning of Adults: Drugs and Other Offences.

That paper flagged the publication of this Briefing Paper on the Diversion of Drug Offenders and Drug Dependent Offenders from the Criminal Justice System. 

There are three parts to this paper.

1. The first part discusses proposals currently being considered in Queensland for the diversion of drug offenders and drug dependent offenders and current possibilities for the diversion of such offenders. 
2. The second part of the paper considers thirteen drug diversion programs that are currently operating (or being trialled or proposed) in various other parts of Australia. 
3. The third part of the paper (which appears as an Appendix) provides a brief update on some of the adult cautioning programs that were reviewed in the police cautioning Briefing Paper. This is the only part of the paper that discusses police cautioning.