Preventing Relapse into Drug Crime through Motivational Talks at a Drug Scene in Stockholm<subtitle>A Randomised Controlled Trial of a Law Enforcement Tactic</subtitle>
A randomised controlled trial was developed and implemented together with police officers working to combat drug crime at an open drug scene in Stockholm. The aim was to evaluate a method called motivational talks, which are held by police officers to encourage drug crime suspects to seek help. Rela...
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| description | A randomised controlled trial was developed and implemented together with police officers working to combat drug crime at an open drug scene in Stockholm. The aim was to evaluate a method called motivational talks, which are held by police officers to encourage drug crime suspects to seek help. Relapse into drug crime was compared between the control group and the experimental group to determine whether the treatment, i.e., the motivational talk, had an effect. The study shows that motivational talks had a small but non-significant impact on relapse into drug crime after nine months, but the effect had disappeared at the second follow-up. Motivational talks might still have other effects on the individual or the police. Studying the use of repeated treatment might be a way of furthering the research on the effect of motivational talks. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-92d97b44989d4ed0a55c3da6907fdc5f2023-02-22T07:00:06ZengScandinavian University Press (Universitetsforlaget)Nordic Journal of Studies in Policing2703-70452023-02-0110111710.18261/njsp.10.1.1Preventing Relapse into Drug Crime through Motivational Talks at a Drug Scene in Stockholm<subtitle>A Randomised Controlled Trial of a Law Enforcement Tactic</subtitle>Mia-Maria Magnusson0The Stockholm Police, Sweden and Malmö University, Department of CriminologyA randomised controlled trial was developed and implemented together with police officers working to combat drug crime at an open drug scene in Stockholm. The aim was to evaluate a method called motivational talks, which are held by police officers to encourage drug crime suspects to seek help. Relapse into drug crime was compared between the control group and the experimental group to determine whether the treatment, i.e., the motivational talk, had an effect. The study shows that motivational talks had a small but non-significant impact on relapse into drug crime after nine months, but the effect had disappeared at the second follow-up. Motivational talks might still have other effects on the individual or the police. Studying the use of repeated treatment might be a way of furthering the research on the effect of motivational talks.http://www.idunn.no/doi/10.18261/njsp.10.1.1Randomised controlled trials (RCT)policeopen drug scenemotivational interviews (MI) |
| spellingShingle | Mia-Maria Magnusson Preventing Relapse into Drug Crime through Motivational Talks at a Drug Scene in Stockholm<subtitle>A Randomised Controlled Trial of a Law Enforcement Tactic</subtitle> Nordic Journal of Studies in Policing Randomised controlled trials (RCT) police open drug scene motivational interviews (MI) |
| title | Preventing Relapse into Drug Crime through Motivational Talks at a Drug Scene in Stockholm<subtitle>A Randomised Controlled Trial of a Law Enforcement Tactic</subtitle> |
| title_full | Preventing Relapse into Drug Crime through Motivational Talks at a Drug Scene in Stockholm<subtitle>A Randomised Controlled Trial of a Law Enforcement Tactic</subtitle> |
| title_fullStr | Preventing Relapse into Drug Crime through Motivational Talks at a Drug Scene in Stockholm<subtitle>A Randomised Controlled Trial of a Law Enforcement Tactic</subtitle> |
| title_full_unstemmed | Preventing Relapse into Drug Crime through Motivational Talks at a Drug Scene in Stockholm<subtitle>A Randomised Controlled Trial of a Law Enforcement Tactic</subtitle> |
| title_short | Preventing Relapse into Drug Crime through Motivational Talks at a Drug Scene in Stockholm<subtitle>A Randomised Controlled Trial of a Law Enforcement Tactic</subtitle> |
| title_sort | preventing relapse into drug crime through motivational talks at a drug scene in stockholm subtitle a randomised controlled trial of a law enforcement tactic subtitle |
| topic | Randomised controlled trials (RCT) police open drug scene motivational interviews (MI) |
| url | http://www.idunn.no/doi/10.18261/njsp.10.1.1 |
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