National TASC

Treatment Accountability for Safer Communities

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Research and Reports

 

National TASC compiles research and reports that use the TASC model in their work. An online database of TASC’s appearances in published work by other groups is available here.

 

New Items

Resources for National TASC Members

Treatment Practices for Drug Using Offenders: Results from the National Criminal Justice Treatment Practices Survery

Assessing Drug Abuse Within and Across Communities

 Epidemiologic Trends in Drug Abuse: Volume II

  

TASC White Papers and other Reentry Research

 TASC in the 21st Century: A Guide for Policymakers and Practitioners

 

 

 

 

Sentencing Reform Resources

Supreme Court Decisions

Apprendi v. New Jersey - 4/26/2000

Held that judges could not hand down sentences higher than statutory maximums for any reason not established beyond a reasonable doubt by a jury or confessed to by a defendant.

Ring v. Arizona - 6/24/2002

Held that sentencing judges sitting without a jury could not determine that an aggravating circumstance necessitates the death penalty.

Blakely v. Washington - 6/24/2004

Juries must decide upon factors that result in increased sentences unless they are confessed to by a defendant.

Schriro v. Summerlin - 6/24/2004

Stated that the rule dictating that juries were sole determiners of aggravating factors in a crime was not retroactive.

United States v. Booker - 1/12/2005

Required that statutory sentencing guidelines be advisory, prohibiting them from being mandatory.

Further Reading

Sentencing Law and Policy Blog

 Fifteen Years of Guidelines Sentencing

Assistant AG Christopher Wray’s Testimony to the U.S. Sentencing Commission

The Bowman Proposal

Implications for State Courts

Truth-in-Sentencing in State Prisons

 

 

 Principles of Drug Abuse Treatment for Criminal Justice Populations

Treatment Services in Adult Drug Courts

Managed Behavioral Health Care and the Courts

Clinical Case Management and Recovery

Considering Public Safety: The TASC Abilities

TASC and Offender Management Systems: 2004 Agency Survey Report

 

 Building Stronger Networks: Summary of Community Corrections Practitioners Responses to a 2004 Survey 

Urinalysis as a Part of a Treatment Alternatives to Street Crime Program

 Research Findings and Best Practices in Substance Abuse Treatment for Offenders: A Review of the Literature

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