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WHEREAS, the Office of License, Inspections and Environmental Protection and the Vice
Unit oE the Saint Paul Police Department have conducted a limited number (ranging from
25 to 75 checks) of liquor compliance checks each year fox the last 10 years, and
WHEREAS, the office of License, Inspections and Environmental Protection has been
selected to participate in a liquor compliance project Yunded by the Robert Wood Johnson
Foundation, in cooperation with MBC presentations, an entity that provides alcohol
awareness training to liquor dealeis throughout the State of Minnesota, and
WHEREAS, the office of License, Inspections and Environmental Protection and the Saint
Paul Police Department's vice Unit plan to conduct Prom 75 to 100 compliance checks in
1998, taxgeted at locations whexe mi.nozs are likely to able to obtain alaohol, and
WHEREAS, the funding pzovided in the amount of $3,000.00 would be used to purchase
product, and recruit, train, and compensate underage decoys to be used in the above
mentioned liquor compliance checks,
WHEREAS, the Mayox, pursuant to Section 10.07.04 of the city charter, recommends the
following changes to the 1998 budget:
Current
Bud e
FINANCING PLAN:
Depa:tment of Executive Administration
Division - License, 2nspections, and
Environmental Protection
GL 320 33353 6999 Othex Mi.sc. Revenue N.O.C.
All Other Activity Financing
3PENDING PLb�N:
Department o£ Executive Administration
Division - License, Inspections, and
Environmental Protection
GL 320 33353 0298 Snvestigations
Al1 Other Activity Spending
Ordinance #
Green Sheet # 50432
RESOLUTION
CITY OF SAINT PAUL, MINNESOTA
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$2.373.959
$2,373,959
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$ 2,500
2 371,459
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$3,000 $ 3,000
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$3,000 $2,376,959
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$3,000
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$3,000
$ 5,500
$2.371.459
$2,376,459
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45 RESOLVED, that the City Council appioves these changes to the 1998 budget.
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REQUESTED: Approval of a resolution to accept grant funds for liquor
nce checks for 1998 to be performed by the Police and LIEP.
APPROVE (A) OR REJECT �R)
INING COMMISSION _ CNIL SERVICE COMN.ISSIO
CDMMITTEE _ SUSINESS REVZEW CoUNCIL
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SERVICS CONTRACT$ M[i3T PNSWBR T8E POLL041SNG:
Has the pezsoni£ixm ever wotked ssnder a contracC for this depar[ment?
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Aas this person/fizm ever baen a City Employse?
YES NO
Does this person/firm Bossess a skill not normally possessed by any
clirxent City esployee?
YES NO
aia a11 YES aaawars on a saparaCe sheaG ead attach.
TIATING PROBLEM, ISSUE, OPPORTUNITY (Who, What, When, Where, Why):
support of the Mayor's priority to reduce the availability of liquor to
ors funds are available to assist the City in carrying out additional
uor compliance checks in 1998. Alcohol Awareness classes will also be
vided to Saint Faul license holders as part of this program, but funding
the classes will be provided separately from this grant.
GES IF APPROVED:
ent funcls will be available to pay the cost of recruitment and
g, for underage decoys so the City will be able to conduct up to 100
at the approximately 500 license liquor establishments in the City.
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DISADVANTAGES IF NOT APPROVED:
Phe number of compliance checks would be diminished.
'OTAL AMOUNT OF TRANSACTION $ 3,000 COSTJREVENUE BUDGETED� YES NO
UNDING SOURCE Private Grant ACTIVITY NUI�ER 320 33353 0298
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Dear Colleague:
U.S. Degartment of Justice
Office of Justice Programs
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June 30, 1998
I would like to take this opportunity, once again, to thank you for participating in the National
Symposium on Alcohoi Abuse and Crime convened eazlier this spring by the U.S. Department
of Justice, Office of Justice Programs. Tt was an exciting and productive event for us at OJP.
From the feedback I've had from participants, I lrnow that many of you also felt it was a
worthwhile opporiunity for diatogue on this important issue.
The commihnent that I made to you at the close of the Symposium--in response to your
unanimous request--was to share with you the report smxunarizing reoommendations which
emerged from the Symposium. Today, I am pleased to send you that report.
I hope you will find these recommendations useful and informative as you confinue your own
discussions and work on the issue of alcohol abuse and crime in your communities. At the
Office of Justice Programs, we will be looking to it as we move forwazd to plan and implement
initiatives during this and future years.
Again, thank you for your hard work and your thoughtful insights.
Sincerely,
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Laurie binson
Assistant Attorney General
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Part I.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Overview. The Nationa{ Sympasium on
Alcohoi Abuse and Crime . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
The Role of Alcohoi P,buse in Damestic
Volence and ifs implications for
Criminai Justice interventions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
Effeetive Intervent+ons for Offender Populations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
Underage Use ofAlcohoi ................................... 23
Cammunify-based Responses and fnitiatives . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31
Research, Evaluation, and Knowiedge Dissemination . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37
Part 1{.
Part NI.
Part iV.
Part V.
Part Vi.
Appendix1. Symposium Agenda .......................................1-1
Appendix 2. Symposium Participants . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-1
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Part 1: Overview: The National Symposium on Alcohot Abuse and Grime
In the fa{I of 1997, Assistanf Attomey General Laurie Robinson convened a federal
interagency working group fo pfan a National Symposium on Alcohoi Abuse and Crime.
in the Assistant Attomey Generai's words, the symposium wouid �...reinforce what we
all know and want to #ocus on—that the tinks between alcohol abuse and crime and
what to do about this problem are of critical importance to the health and safety of
America's communities.' .
Purpose and Focus
In the months preceding the symposium, hefd in Washington, D.C. on April 5- 7, 1998,
fhe inferagency group identified key topics and speakers; structured the working
sessions of the agenda; and—perhaps most impo�tantiy—carefuQy identified more than
one hundred expert participants. Age, gender, and ethnic diversity—along with
professional diversity—characterized the individuals who were ultimate{y invited to
participafe.
The specific purposes of the symposium were:
To convene recognized feaders from fhe alcohol field including research,
treatment, criminal justice, community and victim advocacy, and prevention;
To provide a forum for these participants to engage in an honest and open discussion
of our current knowledge of the relationships between afcohol abuse and crime in all
of its dimensions, as weli as the breadth and effectiveness of our current criminal
justice and treafinent responses to alcohoi abuse and crime; and
To provide advice and guidance to the Office of Justice Programs (OJP) regarding
how it can best provide support to ongoing and emerging efforts to reduce alcohol-
related crime and its consequences.
ln ordec to focus the work of the symposium, the interagency planning group identified four
specife topic areas around which the working groups were organized. The topics were:
• The role of aicohol in domestic viofence and its implications for criminai justice
interventions;
• Effective interventions for offender populations;
• Community-based �esponses and initiatives; and
• The underage use of a{cohol.
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Symposium Format
Participants were invifed to join one of four working groups each organized around one of
the primary topics listed above in fhe Purpose and Focus se�tion. Each group was asked to
identify the major problems in its area, summarize current criminai jusfice responses to those
problems and what we know of their effectiveness, and develop a specific set of
recommendations about actions the Office of Justice Programs can take to reduce alcohol-
related crime and its consequences.
Pienary presentations, designed to provide participants with a common frame of reference
for fheir discussions, supptemented the working group sessions. The presentations were
representative of a wide variefy of perspectives and covered the current state of knowledge
on alcohol abuse and its relationship to crime; treatment approaches and fheir effectiveness;
cultural and ethnic dimensions of alcohol abuse; the role of alcohol in domestic violence;
community initiatives to address alcohot-related crimes; interventions within the correctional
system; and fhe underage use of alcohol_ The symposium agenda, which identiftes plenary
session topics as well as the presenters, is included as Appendix 1.
After two days of panel presentations and lively discussions, the four working groups
formulated their recommendations and hightighted their priority recommendations in a
presentation attended by a(! of the symposium parficipanfs and Afforney General Janet
Reno.
Participants
The response to QJP's invitation to participate in the symposium was ovenvhelming.
Ultimately, approximately 950 individuals, representing a broad variefy of disciplines
and perspectives, participated in the symposium. They included:
• Criminat justice officials from many different agencies inciuding law enforcement
personnel, judges from juvenile and adu(t courts as well as specialized alcohol
and drug courts, prosecutors, jail administrators, and representatives from
institutional and community based correct+ons agencies;
• Youth representatives;
• Representatives from collaborative community efforts to control alcohol-related
crime including alcohotic beverage control agencies, the retail industry, and the
alcohol beverage indusfry;
• Di�erse public policy practitioners and advocates such as local elected officials,
public hea(fh advocates, community organizers, and educators;
• Treatment and prevention specialists from the alcohol, substance abuse, and
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-- domestic violence arenas;
- • Vcfim advocates including representatives ofi the domestic violence advocacy
- • community;
� • Researchers and eva(uators; and
• Federal poticy makers, funders, and program managers.
- A comp{ete listing of fhe sympasium's participants is included as Appendix 2.
- Major Themes of the Symposium's Recommendations
-- While the symposium participants generated hundreds of recommendations during the
: course of their discussions, this report presents a synthesis of the recommendations
which fall most clearly within the purview of the Office of Justice Programs. There were
=- several key themes that emerged with striking consistency in all four groups which
�= provide a coherent framework for the numerous recommendations provided by the
symposium participants.
• Alcohol is a drug that is closely linked with crime, particularly violent crime. As a
result, it should have greater visibility in our efforEs to deal with crime and
' viofence. The four groups encouraged OJP to support initiatives which
- acknowledge alcoho! as a drug and which target the crime re(ated to afcoho!
abuse and its consequences.
- • OJP can provide important leadership on this issue by continuing to emphasize
the inclusion of alcoho{ in the dialogue about substance abuse, and to
; emphasize statistica! and qualitative information about the high propo�tion of
crime related to alcoho� abuse. .
The problems of alcohol abuse and crime, by their nature, cross all of our
traditional professional, jurisdictional, racial, efhnic, gender, and even
generational boundaries. If we are to begin to address these problems more
effectively, we must develop collaborative efforts—bringing together 1aw
enforcement, the courts, corrections agencies, treatment providers, victim
advocates, community representafives, health professians, researchers, alcohol
beverage control agencies, the alcohol beverage industry, the hospitality
industry, youth, and others. Therefore, the four groups encouraged OJP to
support initiatives which are based upon collaboration.
Efforts to prevent and respond to alcohol-related crime must be sensitive to the
communities and the cultural confext in which they occur, and must be
competent within those communities. 1t would be di�cult to overestimate the
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strength of conviction which participants felt on this point whether in relationship
to domestic violence, offender interventions, the underage use of alcohol, or
community initiatives. .
The consequences of alcohol abuse and alcohol-related crime fatl
disproportionately upon communities in Indian Country, A Native American is
475% more likely to die of alcohol-related causes than is the average American.
fn addition, other conditions such as unempfoyment and family disruption that
corre(ate hi�hty with crime in aii communities are experienced disproportionateiy
in Indian Country. Prevention and intervention effo�ts regarding alcohol-related
crime must be cognizant of these needs and the disproportionate impact of
alcohol abuse and crime in Indian Country.
One of the barriers impeding our progress in utilizing the knowtedge that we do
have is the gap that exists between research and practice. Each of the working
groups at the symposium spoke passionately of the need to use the knowledge
we have, to make it available to communities and practitioners as they mobilize
their efforts to deal with alcohol abuse, and to share our knowledge abouf what
works. The four working groups ertcouraged OJP to disseminate emerging
research results widely and in a form thaf is accessible and understandable to
the broader community. They also encouraged OJP to support research on the
fopic of alcohol abuse and crime in proporfion to ifs importance as a drug of
abuse—which is sign�cant, and greater than many drugs of abuse which we
research e�ensively.
In its broadest sense, community involvement requires the participation of
individua(s who are mosf affecfed by a probtem and its solution. The four
working groups encouraged OJP to undertake initiatives in partnership with
individuals and communities who are most influenced by alcohol abuse and
crime. Youth, victims, racial and.ethnic groups, and specific communities must
be inctuded and empowered to participate in the solutions to these problems.
The working groups found the opportunity for d+alogue at the symposium to be
an important step forward i� addressing the problem of alcohol abuse and crime.
They encourage OJP to consider sponsoring further opportunities for
coflaborative discussions among diverse groups on tF�e role of alcohol in
domestic viotence, effective interventions for offender populations, and the
underage use of alcohol.
Organization of this Report
Each of the working groups af the symposium generated a set of discussion nofes and
an outline of recommendations. Parts tl - V of this report are a synthesis of each
group's discussions and recommendations. Major issues, problems, and needs are
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discussed as "Targefs for Change" in each section and are followed by
recommendations organized into categories. The report attempts to remove
dupiication, combine refated recommendations, and to include primarily those
recommendations which retate to OJP's areas of responsibility. Each group generated
exkensive recommendations regarding research--on research questions, research
methods, and fhe dissemination of research resulfs. To avoid repetition and highlight
common themes, Part VI of the report incorporates recommendations on research from
all four working groups.
Highlighted Recommendations
To fuily appreciate the extent and complexity of the issues which participants discussed
and the recflmmendations which they formulated, the reader is encouraged to review
each of the following sections of this document. However, participants did highiight key
recommendations for discussion wifh OJP during the symposium. These highlighted
recommendations pravide an overview of the full set of recommendations presented in
Parts 11- Vt of this report.
The ro% of a/coho! in domesfic vio%nce and ifs imp/ications for criminal
justice interventions
2. increase funding and support for community-based, culturai(y competent
programs that successfully integrate services across a system that is
currently very fragmented;
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Conduct and support research on initiatives fhat foster linkages among
community groups, service and treatment p�oviders for domestic violence
and alcohol problems, and the criminal }ustice sysfem;
Support screening for and assessment of aicohol use among ali batterers
who are in contact with the criminal justice system;
Ensure that non-coercive a{cohoi treatment options are available for
women who are victims of domestic vio{ence; and
5. Convene a simifar symposium or focus group to look specifically at the
links between domestic violence and alcohol abuse. 7here is stili much
learning to be shared from aii sides, and more dialogue and exploration
that need to happen before specific recommendations can be made with
full agreement.
Effective inferventions for coaecfiona/ popu/ations
Support the development of a comprehensive continuum of care thaf
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connects all etements of the treatment and criminal justice communities
from arrest through discharge from the system;
2. Encourage fhe formulation af a common language for both treatment and
criminal justice practitioners that adequately defines terms, articulates
treatment goals, and adequafely expresses agreed-upon sfandards of
care; .
3. Support the definition and dissemination of accepted `best" treafinenf and
intervention pracfices that are culturaAy competent across all offender
poputations, inctuding Native American populations;
4. Suppo�t the development and imptemenfation of effective treatment
strategies for offender popuiations wha wiH be within the correctional
system for only short periods of time, particularly jail populations; and
5. Encourage a more coordinated and accountable system for responding to
driving under the influence of alcohol.
Underage use of alcobol
Support efforts to focus on alcohol advertising and marketing including: a)
additional research on the effects of alcohol advertising on young
persons, b) fhe allocation of substantiat resources (on a scale similar to
the amount the federal government has allocated for its anti-i!licit drug
media campaign) to purchase media time for messages abouf the
dangers associafed wifh the underage use of alcohot, and c) efforts ta
discourage alcohol advertising and marketing that target and appea! to
underage persons;
2. Support efforfs fo encourage responsible hospitality practices including:
a} consistent enfoccement of laws regarding the sale and distribution of
alcohol to underage persons, b) mandatory comptiance checks of all
alcohol outlets, c} fraining of alcohol merchants and servers regarding the
sate of alcohol to underage persons, and d) the restriction of the number
of alcohol outlets in areas frequented by underage persons;
3. Support col(aborative communify efforts to address the problem of
underage alcohol use that include peer justice and youth empowerment
programs, linkages among the treatment and criminal justice agencies,
and a concerted effort to invofve youth in fhe effort to create an
environmenf which discourages rather than encourages the underage use
of alcohol; and
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4. Provide support for another structured and organized opportunity for
coliaborative d'rscussion on this issue and, in particular, to devetop more
fuNy this working groups's extensive list of recommendations.
Community-based responses and initiatives
Undertake a program of community-based initiatives for prevenfing
atcohol-related crime that are competent with respect to gender and
culture. These initiatives shoutd focus on alcohol outtet availability,
advertising, and the enforcement of alcoholic beverage control
regulations. The initiatives should invotve partnerships with community
sfakeholders and should adopt strategies which include the alcoholic
beverage controt system and should be based upon the existing research
on effective efforts in this area;
2. Support research and evaluation on alcohof-related crime issues that
incorporate partnerships involving researchers and community decision
makers and policy makers and that lead to broad dissemination of
information on "what works" to communities interested in addressing
these issues;
3. Encourage crime-prevention initiatives which incorporate alcoho{ic
beverage control agencies as crime prevention resources; and
4. Enter into a special partnership for Indian Country initiatives on alcohol
abuse and crime, with the active part+cipation of communities within
Indian Country.
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`- Part 11: The Role of Alcohol Abuse in Domestic Violence and Its
implications for Criminaf Justice {nterventions
Background of the Discussion
The discussion began with a review of what the crim9na4 justice system can do to
- address domestic violence generally, and, specifically, domestic violence related to
alcahol abuse. . Par.ticipants agreed that, although there has been significant progress
in caising the visibiliry of domestic violence within the system, the need for more
- effect'sve responses to domestic violence in generat and to domestic violence related to
: alcoho! abuse still presents critical chalienges.
The participants fielt that a difficuit barrier arises from the apparent tension which
emerges between the goai of assuring accountability and sanctions far batterers and
the goal of providing alcohol treatment for batterers. 1n brief, domestic violence
_- advocates are concerned that a heavy emphasis upon an offender's alcohol addiction
== may relieve him ofresponsibility for his actions and downplay deserved sanctions.
Even beyond that, it may encourage the use of treatment resources for addicfion issues
rather than for batterers issues. Some felt that afEer the lengthy battle to label domestic
violence for what it is—a crime—it seems like a step backward to focus upon baiterers
needs for alcohol treatment rather than the punishment they deserve.
At the same time, for those whose violence is exacerbated by alcohol addiction,
addressing addiction issues can be important in preventing future victimization--a
concern for afl domestic violence advocates.
7argets for Ghange
As with the other three working groups, a recurring theme running through the
discussions of the domestic violence group was the importance of co{laboration.
Although particularly difficult in this area, the group identified a number of the potential
benefits of true coflaborafion. They include the ability to:
• Develop a befter understanding of the issues underlying domestic violence and
alcoho! abuse;
• fncrease the frequency and effectiveness of screening at al1 points in the
criminal justice system;
• Recognize the need for and conducf cross-training;
• Truly infegrate service delivery;
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Recognize the need for and conduct research on tinkages;
Provide services to families; and
Assume more responsibility—ultimately—for women's safety across agencPes
{treatment, medical, courts, etc.).
However, the forces militating against collaboration can be significant. Funding
increasingly does require collaboration, but too often efforts can go fonvard unilaterally
without the leverage of funders encouraging or requiring collaboration. In addition, the
diffculties of maintaining collabo�ation, once begun, are well-known.
�ffe�tive Linkages and Integrafion /ssues
Even beyond the genera( need for collaboration, the group felt that effective
intervenfions for domestic violence require specific, rigorous efforts to link agencies
and services. This is critical in order to ensure the safety of victims of domestic
viotence who have alcohot abuse problems and those uvho do not. The dimension of
alcohol abuse only intensifies and makes more complex the requirements for
integration. Severat participants urged using the °peacemake�' approach to address
the intersection of all these fragmented agencies and agendas. Some of the specific
issues in this area raised by participants include the need to:
• Integrate a domestic violence assessment component into atl alcohol freatmenf
programs;
• Integrafe safety-related strategies info all atcohol treatment planning/case plans
for victims of domesfic violence;
•__. Frovide services fhat better meet victims' needs and that are women friendly and
appropriate (this is essential if we are to successfully integrate domestic
violence and alcohol services);
• Bring more community-based representatives to the table when a"team" or task
force is created;
• Look at victims' involvement in the criminal justice system on other charges and
use that involvement to help dea! with alcoho! or drug addiction and
victimization;
• Be clear about the purpose of screening for alcohof or drug addiction for
batterers in the criminal justice system (i.e., is it an avenue of additionaf
intervention, a way to diminish responsibiliry, or wilt it be used to give priority to
alcohol or drug addiction freatment over batferers' intervention and sanctions?);
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• Consider joinf classificafion of bafterers for treatment needs, justice
=- requirements, and risk assessments;
• Assure that specific screening components be inciuded in ail programs
-- associated with alcohoi abuse and domestic violence {i.e., shelters, the
batterers' interview, freafinent, etc.); and
' • lnclude law enforcement as integrai partners in aU coliaborative efforts to
� address domestic violence.
Participanfs suggested a unified court, such as the domestic violence docket which is
currentiy operating in Bridgeport, Connecticut, as a vehicle for assuring integration. A
unified court brings a range of points to bear including victim interests, and does not
have to depend upon the strength of any other agency's particular commitmenf or focus
on this issue. In such a court, the system can:
:-; • Provide a quick response (i.e., by the next day) with no time for intimidation by
the batterer;
• Ensure that ail relevant parties are present in court;
• Provide protective orders;
• Provide regular accountability to the court; and
• Provide finkages to batterers' pragrams in jail and in the community.
T�eatment and intervention
A basic value shared by the members of this group was that every facet of treatment
and the criminai justice system is responsibie for providing safety for women. This
presents significant challenges, since funding and services are often fragmenied.
Other challenges regarding treatment and intervention include the need to:
Avoid victim-blaming;
Develop cultural{y competent treatment;
Recognize that alcohot and domestic violence are inter-generationai and co-
generational, and this has implications for screening and service delivery (i.e.,
treatment as prevention, its role in juvenile offenses; and how to approach +t with
children, teens, mothers, and pa�tners);
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• Develop and implement intervention models that are not colonizing;
• Understand the role and vatue of spirituality. in recovery;
• Address the undermining of linkages and services by the movement of pubiic
services to managed care; and
• Advance the infegration of alcohol treatment and batterers' intervention
programs by exploring such innovations as:
► The intensive case management modei by probation as it is used in some
drug coufts, and
Outreach to judges about integration.
Recommendations
These recommendations reflect a wide breadth of experience among group members.
Aithough there was no effort to achieve consensus, the recommendafions are lisfed in
rough order of priority (within each category) as determined by votes taken during the
discussion. The recommendations fail into the foliowing categories:
• Collaboration;
• Treatment and Infervention;
• Education and information Dissemination;
• Training; and
• Policy.
CoHaboration
Participanfs recommended that OJP support and promote the fotlowing e#Forts and
initiatives.
A continuafion of the dialogue between domestic violence programs
(victimisurvivor and offender treafinent programsj and fhe atcohol field (inciude
representatives from both treatment and prevention) that occurred at the
symposium. One vehicte for such a dialogue would be a forum/conference for
practifioners and poticy makers to review current research and promising
practices regarding alcohol abuse and domestic vio(ence. Such a forum should
include a diversity of opinions and approaches. It could also form a basis for
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subsequent training on the conclusions which emerge from the conference.
Deve{opmenf of an understanding of the cu{tural dimension of a{cohol abuse and
domestic vioience, in particuiar, for freatment in indian Counfry,
Collaboration with other federai agencies fo deai with the probiems of domestic
violence and.alcohoi abuse in at least two ways. �irst, OJP agencies shouid
errter into caflaborative efforts among themselves and with other federal
agencies. 'fhis witi model and encourage collaboration among the state and
local efforts supported by federal funding. Further, OJP funding shoufd be
conditioned upon efForts at collaboration at the local and state leveis.
Encouragement of more coordination among criminal justice agencies and
batferers intervention programs.
Invoivement of survivors (consumer community) as weli as the broader
community in planning, developing, and implementing integrated programming.
Treatment and Intervention
Participants recommended that OJP shauld support and promote fhe following efforts
and initiatives.
• Provision of appropriate non-coercive aicohol treatment options for women who
are victims of domestic violence.
• Screening of offenders for alcohol abuse at all points of contact within the
criminal justice system.
• Development of a model treatment program for batterers that inciudes screening,
an assessment of alcohol use, and addresses the re{ationship between alcohol
abuse and domestic vioience. Such a program shouid be evaluated in terms of
its effectiveness for various typologies of batterers.
• Provision of domestic violence education and prevention services to all high risk
groups (i.e., offenders, ex-offenders, those on probation and parole, and their
families), especially through community-based organizations.
• Provision of information about alcohol use/abuse as a safety issue to victims and
survivors of domestic violence.
• Estabfishment of a domestic violence component in substance abuse programs
with the invoivement and input of the domestic violence victim advocacy
community. This will also require cross-training of respective staff involved in
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assessment, piacement, screening, and a(fernative treatment modalities.
Provision of more resources and facilifies to meet basic needs in many parks of
Indian Country where such resources and facilities are lacki�g (i.e., victim
services, shelters, transporfation, and alcohoi treatment}.
The recognition of domestic violence and alcohol or drug addietion issues in the
homes of juyenites who are in trouble with the law.
Education and lnformation Dissemination
Participants recommended fhat OJP support and promote the following efforts and
ini6atives.
Presentation of cr+minal j�stice system data to the pubiic fo educate and raise
the awareness of domestic viotence as a serious probiem, including the
intersection between domestic �iolence and a(cohol abuse.
Improvements in the measurement of domesfic violence and atcohoi abuse, and
an opening of fhe design process to a wider circle of input.
Training
Participants felt that OJP should support and promote the foliowing efEorts and
initiatives.
integration of training for criminal justice, advocacy, treatment, and other
agencies.
ldentification of best practices and provision of training for law enforcement,
judges, and other decision-makers on domestic violence and alcohol (inkages.
Poticy
Parficipants recommended that OJP support and promote the following efforts and
initiatives.
Development and support of policies which ensure that domestic violence
offenders receive appropriate criminal justice sanctions. Alcohol should nof
mitigate or increase the criminal justice penatty.
Development of more unified court models for domestic violence and alcohol
abuse issues.
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-. Part Ilf: Effective Interoentions for Offender Poputations
- Background of the Discussion
-- A key issue raised by Assisfant Atfomey General Laurie Robinson in her remarks at the
`� opening of the symposium was the prevalence of alcohol abuse among offender
_ populations. The dimensions of this problem have been confirmed recently—both by a
sfudy published by fhe National Center on Addiction and Substance Abuse at Columbia
-� University, and the anatysis prepared by the Bureau of Justice Statistics specificaily for
_. the symposium. That analysis indicates that futly 35 percent of the 5.3 mitlion
convicted offenders under correetionai supervision--nearly 2 million individuals—were
�" under the influence of alcohol at the time of their offense.
= The working group on effe�tive interventions for offender populations discussed how
� the crimina! justice system can effectively intervene with offenders to reduce the
tikelihood of future crime associated with aicohol abuse.
The members of this group were in general agreement that the number and proportion
of offenders moving througfi the system who have significant afcohof probfems is
: staggering. The group also agreed that, among the public and even among policy
makers, there is very little appreciation for this fact. Not surprisingiy, then, the
: resources dedicafed to addressing alcohol treatment for offenders are limifed at best
and non-existent at worst. At least part of the difficulty in assuring adequate resources
has been the heavy focus that the criminal justice system has piaced upon iilicit drugs,
at the expense of identifying alcohol abuse as a priority. Even drug testing, which has
become a widely-used tool in dealing with illicit drug use, often does not target alcoho!
use.
TargeEs for Change
The group identified a number of areas of agreement that may be seen as guiding
princip{es for its recommendations in this area and imply major targets for change and
improvement. Although there was great debate on a number of questions, there
appeared to be some consensus on the following targets for change.
Continuum of Gare
Interventions for offender populations should include a continuum of care from arrest to
discharge a�d involve both short-term and long-term strategies for alcohol treatment.
Current treatment interventions often refy on fragmented, under-resourced, and
generally inadequate attempts to identify alcohol problems and treat them among
offender populations. ln order to achieve the goal of reducing the likelihood of future
crime associated with alcohol abuse, a continuum of care concept is essential. The
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efements of a continuum of care inc(ude: screening; assessmenf for diagnosis and risk;
treatment pianning; provision of treatment for counseling and rehabilitation; transitionai
care from institution to community; relapse prevention and intervention; and linkages
created to tend fo information flow, the flow of offenders through fhe crimina! justice
system, and the flow of offenders from institutions to the community.
Continuing Dia/ogue on Treatmenf and Sfandards of Care
The participants agreed that there is a clear need for further dialogue to develop a
generally accepted definifion of alcohol treatment and to work toward generatty
accepted standards of care. The extensive discussion and debate within the working
group emphasized that there is little agreement on the definition of what constitutes
acceptable atcohof treafinenf. The group discussed a definition which began with an
acknowledgment that treatment is a prescribed regimen of therapeutic intervention
rendered or overseen by a qualified professional consistent with generally accepted
profocols. They also suggesfed thaf some further characteristics of accepfabie
treatment implicit in a"continuum of care° might include:
• The use of scienfificaily-based.assessment foots;
• Treatment matched to the level of offender need;
• Psychological and medical supervision of groups and individuals;
� Peersupport;
• Family intervention and counseling;
• Case management; and
• Treatmenf providers who are licensed and meef specific sfandards.
However, the group could not agree on a definition and noted the need for continuing
dialogue on this topic with the ultimate goals of a common def+nition of treatment and
minimum standards of care.
The participants felt that implication of their conclusion—that there are no accepfed
standards for freatmenf—suggests that the need for dialogue on fhis topic is critical and
should receive priority consideration in OJP's planning in this area.
Culturat Competence
Participants agreed that al! treatment programs and interventions should be undertaken
wifhin a framework of a culfurafty competent system of care that is both age and gender
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specific. They fe{t that much of the treatment that +s available does not adequately
recognize that alcohoi abuse takes place in a culturai context and is affected
intrinsicatly by the gender or age of fhe individual invofved. If we are to expect
interventions to be effective, this must change. The group iderrt�ed a set of specific
recommendations regarding actions wifhin indian Country. They aiso acknowiedged
the over-representation of Native Americans, African Americans, and Hispanic
Americans among offender populations. The group's recommendations emphasize fhe
need for culturaily competent interventions within these communities.
The �sibility of A/coho/ as a Drug
= Although atcohol is 1ega1, participants emphasized that we need to be dear that it is a
drug. They felt that alcohol's legal status should not diminish the priority we place
- upon dealing with the consequences of its abuse. The emphasis on illicit drug use has
often deflected attention from the need to address this problem.
�= Crimina! Justice and Communify Linkages
The group agreed that linkages between the criminal justice system and the community
:. should be developed and expanded.
Public Safefy
Participants emphasized that the focus of this group on treatment and a continuum of
care for offenders is warranted primarily because of the community safety benefits that
it promises. lf we can have a significant impact upon the patterns and instances of
alcohol abuse amorig offender populations which are related to crime (and particularly
violent crime) we make a significant impact upon reducing future criminality and
increasing community safety.
Recommendations
The participants' recommendations concerning effective interventions for offender
populations fall into severa! categories:
• fnterventions and Treatment;
• Interventions for Offenders Who Are Guilty of Driving Under the Inffuence of
Alcohol;
• Interventions for Native American Offenders;
• Interventions for African Americans Offenders and Nispanic American Offenders;
and
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Education and Training.
Interventions and Treatment
Parficipanfs agreed that OJP should support and promote the following efforts and
initiatives.
A more coo�dinated and effecfive delivery system for interventions should be
developed f[om the time of arrest thcough sentencing and execution of a
sentence. This should include clear definitions of goals, objectives, and
outcomes for treatment, intervention, programs and offenders. A more effective
detivery system shouid aiso include linking information systems. There should
be a high levei of coordination between the juvenile and adult systems.
Linkages shouid extend beyond the criminai justice system to inclu�e education,
health and human services, and ofher appropriate fie(ds. The systc� should
operate within constitutiona! and lega( parameters.
Effective interventions and treatment for short-term populations (i.e., jail
populations) should be developed.
• A comprehensive continuum of care and treatment should be developed
throughout the criminal jusfice system thaf acknowledges the movement of
offenders from the community into instifufions and back into the community.
Implicit in this recommendation is the sense of the group that if is important to
consider the variety of target populations that should be identified under the
general categary of "offe�ders.° Their issues and needs regarding treatment
interventions wili vary. These target populations include: convicted drunk driving
offenders; probationers and parolees supervised in the community; offenders
incarcerafed in jail (both prefriat and sentenced) and prison; juvenile offenders;
- - offender subgroups (i.e., sex offenders, menta(ly iIl offenders; drug-involved
offenders who also use alcohol, gang-involved offenders, etc.j; ethnic and
cultural offender subgroups (e.g., Native American oifenders, IVative American
offenders, Hispanic American offenders, etc.); and families of offenders.
Mechanisms for fostering befter coordination of funding at each level of
government and among differenf agencies of government (federal, state, tocal,
and tribal) should be developed. Particular efforfs should be made at the federal
level to coordinate the multiple sources of funding from within the Department of
Justice, from within the Qepartment of Health and Human Services, and from
within other departments.
Restoration shoufd be a goal and a part of the sanction at each stage of the
system and a part of every treatment ptan.
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_ • A broad-based forum shouid be created to aiiow for dialogue about treatment
and intervenfion issues, to heip estabfish a common understanding of the range
= of freatment programs and interventions, and to help estabiish a common
language.
�=- • Scientifically-based assessment tools should be linked or matched to
appropriate treatment and intervention.
- � Additional treafinent resources should be created for alcohol offenders, including
post-release treafinent programs. There are cunently few, if any, resources
_ specific to alcohol. .
� Intervention initiatives should be designed to respond to the varying issues and
needs of smail, large, urban, and rurai jurisdictions.
AI{ offenders shoufd have access to scientifica{ly-based alcohol and other drug
screening and appropriate treatment as part of being held accountable and
punished for their crimes.
- Offenders Who Are Guilty of Driving Under the influence of Alcohoi
For the most part, sanctions for driving under the influence of afcohol are prescribed by
state statute rather than by federal policy. The paRicipants' recommendations which
follow highlight areas in which OJP and other federal agencies might work with state
and local jurisdictions who are interested in prioritizing driving under the influence of
alcoho! as an offense for prosecution and sanctioning, and implementing initiatives
which will contribute to a reduction of such crimes in the future. The participants
agreed that OJP should support the foifowing efforts and initiatives.
Development of an accountable system for dealing with offenders who are guilty
of driving under the influence of alcohol in which:
� Stability is promoted among staff who are committed to long-term change;
� Drunk driving offenses are given a higher priority in the system (priority
docketing, cases are heard more immediately, cases have more prestige,
etc.);
� Information flow through the courts is more effective and reaches
everyone who needs it; and
► Judges are better informed.
Crestion of "specialized" drunk driving courts. Develop critical,program
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efements for drunk driving courts {similar to Defining Orug Courfs: The Key
Componenfs, Drug Courts Program Office, January 1997).
• In jurisdictions where it is not feasible to create a"specialized" court, judges and
others in the crir►�inal justice system should be provided with the information and
skills necassary to dea! effectively with issues related to alcohoi abuse among
the offenders whom they screen, assess, prosecute, adjudicate, and sentence.
• Developmenf of ways fo community outreaches so fhat the generai public
understands issues related to driving under the influence, of alcohol.
• Development of scientifically-based assessment and screening toois for offender
populations.
• Increasing the range of seff-regulating devices which are avaitable to the
general public.
• Development of a national tracking mechanism to track drunk drivers (including
offenses within local, state, federal, and tribal jurisdictions).
• Development of legal changes to amend current laws to allow for limited driving
privileges of some convicted drunk drivers who have had their licenses
suspended (i.e., to gef fo freatmenf or a job}.
• Development of a broader range of sanctions for drunk driving offenses.
Responses to drunk driving should include a combination of punishment,
rehabilitation, and restitution.
� Development of ways to encourage states to amend cuRent laws to allow for
aufo forfeiture for a third time predatory felony drunk driving offense.
(nterventions for Native American Offenders
Consistent with a strong theme running through all of the groups' discussions at the
symposium, the working group on effective offender interventions agreed upon the
need to address the disproportionafe burden of alcohol abuse and crime on .
communities in lndian Country, and the vast over-representation of Native Americans
among correctional populations. The participants agreed that OJP should support the
following efforts and initiatives.
Esfablishment of a working group of Nafive American staff and others from
among federa► agencies (CSAT, OJP, BiA, and others} to foster and coordinate
initiatives in tndian Country, and to address the problems of alcohol abuse and
crime.
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• Development of interventions and treatment for Native American offenders within
= a cultural context which competently resQond to tribal difFerences. At present,
-= there is a significant lack of effective intervention and treatment methodo{ogies
designed specifcall� foe Native American populations.
'- • Development of specialized drug and alcohol cou�ts in tribal courts.
_- • tdentlficatton of specific actions which might be taken in individual Native
�' American communities to reduce afcohol-refated crime. Some examples offered
_ by participants included the closing of drive-up windows for the purchase of
� atcohof and the development of more detention space in Indian Country.
• tdentification and use of the human resources to be found within Native
- American communities when addressing all aspects of this issue (i.e., research,
evaluation, treatment, etc.).
�_ • Clarification of myths and perceptions regarding Native Americans and alcoho{.
Interventions for African American and Hispanic American Offenders
A strong majority ofi the group felt that it was important to emphasize the needs of
� African Americans and Hispanic Americans for effective intervention strategies among
-- offender populations. Both of these communities are over represented among
correctiona! populations in America and face difficult problems with respect to alcohol
abuse and crime. There is a need for culturally competent interventions for these
populations and the participants strongly encouraged to support efforts to develop such
interventions.
� Education and Training
The participants agreed that OJP should support and promote the following efforts and
initiatives.
Training and education of judges, treatment providers, and other criminal justice
decision-makers on issues related to alcohol and crime.
Development of public education and community outreach programs that involve
communities in meaningfu! ways about all the issues related to alcohol and
crime.
Development of ways to encourage collaboration among federal agencies to
provide public education and marketing materials on state-of-the-art research
and evaluation with respect to this topic.
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Part IV: Underage Use of Alcohol
Background of the Discussion
The worfcing group on the underage use of alcohol reviewed current innovations,
-� identified significant needs, and generated recommendations for OJP that address:
The kinds of interventions and initiatives that effeetively address fhe underage
use of alcohol and its negative consequences,
• The complex relationship between alcohol abuse and ilficit drug use;
• The need to more sensitively and competently address the relationship between
- alcohol abuse and crime in tribal communities;
_- • The importance of collaborative partnerships between and among those who are
:; committed to eifectively addressing alcoho!-related crime and its negative
consequences;and
The importance of effectivefy responding to victims of alcohol-related crime.
Afthough the group identified dozens of recommendations, they felt that it would require
more focus and examination to develop them to a point that will allow OJP fo make best
use of them. During the working sessions, the group expressed a collective desire to
participate in another structured and organized opportunity for collaborative discussion
on this issue and in particular, to refine their specific recommendations. The group,
therefore, perceives the recommendations which follow as representing the first of
many important steps in initiating effective and competent change; and looks forward to
the possibifity of engaging in another series of intensive working sessions in the near
future.
The youth representatives who participated in the group brought broad perspectives,
keen insights, passion for the issues, a�d willingness to actively er►gage the adults in
the group. They played a pivotal rofe in the group's discussion and development of
recommendations.
Targets for Change
There are three inter-related guiding principles upon which the group's work was
premised. These principles were unanimously endorsed by the group and provide an
overview of the targets for change which the group identified if we are to make progress
in reducing underage alcohol use and its consequences.
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Co/laborafion Emphasizing Subsfantive Youth Involvement
Participants felt that he need to address aicoho! abuse and crime, inciuding the
underage use of alcohol, will require significant wllaboration. This working group
emphasized the impottance of substantive involvement of youth in these coilaborative
efforts. The creation of a truly collaborative strategy will require support and
assistance from OJP to bring all of the relevant parties together to participate (i.e.,
representafives from the law enforcemenf, treatmenf, research, poficy making, and
juvenile justice arenas), to begin to develop a shared vision, to identify common values,
and fo deve(op linkages"#a carry out shared work. Opportunities for cotlaboration must
exist at the local, state, and national levels as well as in Indian Country.
Competent and Effec6ve Approaches to Dealing with /ssues of Race and Culture
Participants afso fe�t that programs to address the underage use of alcohol and its
negative consequences must be tailored to sensibly respond to the specific cultural
needs of fhose they are fargefing and affecfing. This can be achieved only if individuaf
communities and their members are given the opportunity to actively participate in the
devetopment of initiatives that wilf directly impact them.
Commifinenf to Environmental Change
The working group discussed at length how underage persons in our communities
receive very conflicting messages about a(cohol consumption. In order to reduce the
underage use of alcohol, the group asserted thaf OJP must be committed to developing
poficies and inifiatives which send c(earer, more consistenf, and direct messages to
youth about the dangers and potentia! consequences of alcohol use.
Recommendations
The group's recommendations fall into a number of areas and in several instances,
+nclude a brief list of innovations and promising practices7programs that the participants
identified. The group recommended that OJP research the effectiveness of these
innovafions and promising practices/programs. IF their value and utility can be
documented, OJP should explore ways in which it can encourage other communifies to
adopt the lessons emerging from them.
The fo!lowing recommendations are listed (in each area) in rough order of priarity as
determined by votes taken during the discussion. The categories around which the
group organized its recommendations are:
Community Mobilization;
Enforcemenf;
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• lntenrention;
• Marketing, Public Education, and �ommunity Awareness;
• Prevention;
• Training and Technical Assistance;
• �ctim Issues; and
• Youth lnvolvement.
Community Mobi/ization
Participants felt that OJP should support and promote:
• A national initiative to encourage weekend underage community service projects
to encourage positive community activism among and partnerships between
young persons and adults.
The participants recommended that OJP examine the following innovations and
promising practiceslprograms which focus on community mobilization:
• The "Fighting Back" Program in Gallup, New Mexico;
• The "Community Systems of Care Approach" used by the Mississippi Band of
Choctaw lndians and the Cheyenne River Sioux Tribe;
• CSAP's DREAM Community Partnership in Forrest County, Mississippi;
• The °Assets Project° in BridgeporF, Conneeticut;
• The "Community Readiness Model" from the University of Colorado;
• NANACOA's "Community-based Intensive Training;
• The Saving Lives Program in Massachusetts; and
• CMCA's community organizing program to reduce youth access to alcohol.
Enforcement
Participants felt that OJP should support and promote:
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• Ef{orts by communities to consider restrictions on the number of alcohol outlets
in areas frequented by underage persons (i.e., schools and community centers);
• Consistent, regular, and mandatory compliance checks of alcohol outlets in
communities that are interested in and equipped to conduct lhem;
• A substanfiai increase in the consistency and severity of penalties for both
individuals as well as liquor license holders who seil alcohol to underage
persons; _
• The consistent and appropriate enforcement of zero tolerance taws/statutes in
all jurisdiotions;
• An immediate change in federa! statutes which currently prohibif tribal police
departmenfs from apprehending non-Indians who distribute alcohol to u�derage
persons on fribaf lands;
• An increase in the use of administrative license revocation laws which target
underage persons who are arrested for driving under the influence of alcohol in
communities fhat are inferested in this enforcement approach;
• The expansion of community policing initiatives to include the enforcement of
underage drinking taws and statutes;
• The use and consistent enforcement of condifionaf (iquor licenses; and
• The possibility of using the ignition-interlock system on underage DUI/OUI
offenders.
The participants recommended that OJP examine the following innovations and
promising practices/programs which focus on enforcement:
• The Adolescenf Offender Program (AOD} in Mississippi that is associated with
Mississippi State University;
• 7he STOP Program in Naugatuc, Connecticut;
• The Use and Lose Program in Virginia; and
• The Community Pol+cing Program in Columbia, So�th Carolina.
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/ntervention
Participants recommended that OJP should support and promote:
• Peer justice and youth empowerment intervention pragrams including alternative
sentencing and diversion programs through the use of youth/peer/teen courts;
• Community-based systems of care which creaie positive and effiective
interventions;
• Early idenfification and intervention programs for at-risk youth such as first
offender diversion programs that involve juvenile ofifenders and their families;
• The establishment of links/liaisons between college/university administrations
and students to address campus binge drinking; and
• The inciusion of alcohol-related offenses in juvenile drug courts.
The participants recommended that OJP examine the following innovations and
promising practices/programs which focus on intervention:
The Midtown Manhattan Community Court; and
Spirituality and prayer intervention groups in tribal communities.
Marketing, Public Education and Community Awaieness
Participants recommended that OJP support and promote the following efforts and
initiatives.
Partnerships with other agencies and increased funding at the local, state, and
national levels to restrict alcohol advertising and marketing campaigns that
target or appeai to underage persons by:
► Requiring that there is a balance between alcohoi advertising and health
-- information/messages (counter advertising) that deglamorize underage
alcohoi consumption on billboards, in radio and television broadcasts,
and on coflege/university campuses;
Requiring that all alcohol advertising be preceded by warnings that
explain and describe the dangers associated with the underage use of
aicohol;
Mandating the "time channeling" of alcohol advertisements on television
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so that they do not appear during programs frequently viewed by
underage persons; and
Prohibiting the markefing of youfh-orienfed products (i.e., "atcopops° and
"freeze `n' squeeze°).
• The inclusion of aicohol in Office of National Drug Control Policy and other
government.sponsored anti-drug media campaigns.
• School-based programs to offset the negative effects of alcohol advertising on
young persons.
� Community efforts to limit alcohot advertising on billboards.
• Efforts to stop the promotion of discounted drinks.
• "Hands Off Holidays" campaigns to protect young people and ethniGracial
marketing targets.
• The development of a strategic media and public education campaign that
fargets abroad audience and describes the negative impact and consequences
of the underage use of alcohol.
• Culturally competent educational efforts in Indian Country to teach young Indian
persons how spirituafly, mental(y, and physicaily harmfut alcohot has been to
lndian people.
Prevention
Participants felt that OJP should �upport and promote prevention programs which focus
upon both the environment and on the individual through the provision of technical
assista�ce and resources to assist communities in changing the messages that they
send to underage persons about alcohol. These efforts might include support for
initiatives such as the development of counfer advertising programs and the
introduction and consistent enforcement of provisional liquor licenses.
Training and Technical Assistance
Participants recommended that OJP should support and promote the following efforts
and initiatives.
Opportunities for communities regarding sfrafegic ptanning and the develapment
of initiatives to address the underage use of alcohol and its negative
consequences. This training should incfude:
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► An emphasis on broad participation within and across communities;
_ ► A strong focus on the development and improvement of communication
links between and across community coalitions;
► An evaluation component (possibly based upon the use of indicafor
databases in the community to monitor trends) so that communities are
equipped to assess and improve their initiatives in a collaborative and
competent fashion; and
► Strategies for institutionalizing and legitimizing essential community
programs, policies, and initiatives.
• Mandatory training of afcohoi venders and servers regarding the sale of alcohot
- to underage persons, and a substantia! increase in the consistency and severity
_ of penalties for those who do no comply with the training.
• Core educational requirements forjuvenile courtjudges and prosecutors on
enforcement issues.
• The provision of technical assistance and funding for each state to develop
substance abuse Internet referral systems for agencies and citizens seeking
treatment �esources and other information.
• Training for judges (focal, state, federal, and tribal) on effective intervention
strategies.
• Advocacy training for youth.
• Youth/adult partnership training.
Victim /ssues
Participants recommended that OJP support and promote:
The identification and engagement of youth victims in advocacy and healing;
The development of programs to assist communities (especially minority
communities) in collecfively dealing with and addressing their experiences of
historical trauma and its impact on their alcohol-related problems;
The development of restorative justice programs in youth/teen/peer courts;
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• Mandatory training on victim's issues for juvenile courf judges, prosecufors,
public defenders, and probation officers at the local, state, and federal leveis;
and in tribal communities;
• The development of a strategyfo address the impact of the underage use of
alcohol on chitd victimization;
• The use of yictim impact panels in the juvenile justice system; and
• The development of programs to assist children of alcoholics.
Yout6 Involvement
While the work group recommended that youth be substantively included in all
programs, initiatives, and decisions that address the underage use of alcohol and its
negative consequences, they also deve(oped a specific lisf of recommendations
regarding youth involvement.
Participants recommended that OJP support and promote:
Efforts to "reach out" to youtF� who are not currenf(y invo(ved wifh this issue and
encourage them to become engaged; and
Peer based mentoring programs in schools starting in elementary school.
The participants recommended that OJP examine the foftowing innovafions and
promising practices/programs which focus on substantive youth involvement:
Youth empowerment programs which are supported through non-profit
organizations at the local, state, and national levels (i.e. MADD Youth in Action
Program, MADD National Youth Summit, MADD Sfudenf Acfivisf Training,
UNITY, SADD, and PRIDE);
State coalitions organized by the American Medical Association to reduce
underage drinking; and
The United Way's Regional Youth/Adult Substance Abuse Project in Bridgeport,
Connecticut.
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Part V: Community-Based Responses and Initiatives
Background of the Discussion
The community-based responses and initiatives group identified current practice 2r,d
knowledge regarding the ways in which communities have focused on aicohol outiets
and availability as � way of addressing crime retated to aicohot abuse.
In contrast with some initiatives related to alcohol abuse and crime which focus upon
prevention, treatment, and rehabilitation approaches directed toward individual users of
alcohol, this group focused upon alcohol abuse in specific geographic areas or
communities. Typically, these initiatives involve the active participation of community
members and collaboration among various stakeholders including merchants, alcohol
beverage controt (ABC) regulatory bodies, and law enforcement. They may also use
mapping techniques to identify the location of alcohol outlets in relation to the
incidence and prevalence of certain types of crime as a way of defining alcohol-related
crime probtems.
Current Responses
The experience-based and research-based knowledge represented in the group was
extensive. The group's discussions highlighted some ofi this knowledge, and provided
an overview of the process of developing and maintaining a community-based
response or initiative to address alcohol-related crime.
The members of the group examined and reviewed the problems and issues in the
communities with which they were familiar that led to the creation of organized
community efforts to address alcohol abuse and crime. These included alarming
numbers of increasingly violent crimes, public drunkenness, extremely high rates of
protective custody related to public drunkenness, high rates of alcohol outlets per
capita, sales of alcohol fo minors and intoxicated persons, frequent instances of driving
under the influence, a lack of community and police cooperation, a lack of an ability to
control the issuance of alcohol beverage distribution permits, cultural discrimination, a
lack of treatment programs (particularly for women and adolescents), and widespread
unemployment.
There was some discussion regarding the extent to which problems and the solutions
to them vary across communities. Some members of the group felt that the problems—
especially related to alcohol distribution—were quite similar from community to
community, and that the models for successful intervention were well-documented and
well-known. Other members of the group felt that the problems were quite different
from community to community and that there were different solutions appropriate to
those different communities—probably with some common elements.
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There did seem to be agreement, however, that there is a common "process° across
communities that couid be emulated in a wide range of situations and settings. This
process includes bringing key stakeholders to the tabie to coliaborate on problem
definition and the development of solutions; the use of the alcohol beverage control
(ABC) regulatory mechanism as a crime prevention tool; the use of data—particularly
mapping of alcohol outlets and crime—as a powerful tool in defining problems and
solutions; and ways.of ensuring substantive community involvement. There also
seemed to be consensus in the group that the foilowing stakeholders should atways be
included in the development process of any community-based Yesponse or initiative:
law enforcement; alcoholic beverage control agencies; hospitality industry members;
afcohol producers, whotesalers, and retailers; neighborhood representatives; tocal
elected officiafs from all affected jurisdictions; crime analysts; and researchers.
Some of fhe specific responses and toois that the communities represented in the
group developed as parts of their overall solutions include: the closing of selected
alcohol outlets on Sundays, the strict enforcement of alcoholic beverage control
regu(ations, sobriety cF�eckpoinfs, vicfim impacf panefs, community policing, tinking the
efForts of police and state alcohol beverage control agencies, the closing of drive-up
alcohol outlets, and an increase in alcohol excise taxes.
There is exfensive documentation of these responses in the literature, including the
evaluations of community prevention trials funded by the National Institute on Alcohol
Abuse and Alcoholism and in the efforts of the ParEnership for Responsibte Hospifalify.
The NAPRH is a voluntary alliance of trade and professional associations, government
agencies, and related organizations developing safe communities and healthy
businesses through the promotion of responsible hospitafity princip(es and pracfices.
Members are unifed by the common goa�s of providing information, sharing resources,
and serving as models for states and local communities creating similar alliances.
Targets for Change
When asked to summarize the major issues that they were addressing, the members of
the group identifed the following:
The reduction of alcohof-related crime at the community level is an achievable
goal;
Communities should belmust be empowered to act to reduce alcohol-related
crime, particularly with respect to the reguiation of alcohol outlets and
advertising; and
Communities need information about what works.
While the group agreed that there is a good deal of experience and knowledge to build
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upon in this area, they identified several issues and problems that their
recommendations would address. These inciude:
• The need to document, evaluate, and research current community-based efforts
so that other communities can build upon what has already been leamed;
• • The need to institutionalize fhe innovations that have emerged in communities
working on these issues; and
• The need to change community norms fo reinforce prevention efForts at the
. community level.
- Recommendations
" The group developed a set of recommendations that reflect participants' judgements
-- about actions that the Office of Justice Programs might take to further the goal of
- substantive community involvement in addressing crime that is related to alcohoi
- abuse. The recommendations feli into severaf areas:
• Advice about "What Works;"
• Program Initiatives;
• Research, Evaluation, and Knowledge Dissemination;
• Training;
• Technicai Assistance;
• Economic Strategies;
• Funding; and
• Leadership.
Advice About "What Works"
As a prelude to the recommendatians sbout the specific actions which OJP might wish
to pursue, the group discussed the lessons that had emerged from their own
experiences, and what they would like to communicate to OJP and other participants at
the symposium. Taken together, this experience provides advice to OJP about how
and why community initiatives can begin to prevent a�cohoi-related crime and its
consequences.
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The group used the specific lessons they have leamed from their own experiences as
the basis for their recommendations in this section.
• Stafe (and (ocal) a(coho(ic beverage confrot agencies can be seen and used as
insfcuments for crime prevention,
• Partnerships across organizational lines at all levels—local, state, nationai and in
Indian Country—are important to all effective efforts.
• At the comrriunity level, residents, law enforcement, alcoholic beverage control
enforcement, local retailers, members of the hospitality industry, and others must
work together to define problems and develop solutions.
• Community-based efforts that are culturally and gender sensitive and competent
are esse�tial.
• Community-based efforts that allow communities to assess their own individual
needs and to create plans to address those needs are essential.
• The alcohol industry—manufacturers, wholesalers, and retailers—should be
encouraged fo be part of fhe diatogue on this issue and to be part of efforts to
address the problem.
• The use of crime mapping technology can be helpful to alcoholic beverage
control agencies where licensing commissions are willing to limit the number and
size of alcohol outlets.
• The practical experiences offered by this work group are very valuable. The
initiatives and responses about which they are familiar are represenfative of
some of fhe best so(utions that exist for an array of alcoho(-related crime
problems. The development, implementation, and evaluation of new community
responses and initiatives must be based upon model programs and new
research.
Program Inifiatives
A large number of recommendations offered to OJP by this group relate to specific
program initiatives which OJP might support through its funding, program design, and
knowledge dissemination activities.
Zhe participants felt that OJP should under take community-based initiatives that
empower local communities to focus on alcohol availability, advertising, and
driving under the influence of alcohol. These initiatives must be sensitive to
issues of culture and gender, and should be based upon research and science.
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_ The participants emphasized that all initiatives should include multiple
stakeholders (i.e., community residents, law enforcement, alcohol beverage
-= control regulatory bodies, retailers, researchers, etc.).
• One way to view community initiatives in this area is as attempts fo change the
- culture of communities regarding alcohol use. 8ecause such change takes
- place gradually, it is not always possible for OJP-funded initiatives to be
planned, developed, implemented, and evaluated during a single fiederal funding
- cycle. The participants encouraged OJP to consider ways in which it might
� support change over time, perhaps by sequentiat funding of the phases of such
an effort to allow 4or pianning, community education, implementation, and
evaluation.
• State legisiatures and alcohol beverage controi regulatory bodies should be
- encouraged to support model programs and empower communities to more
-� effectively regulate aicohoi sales, advertising, and availability.
-- • OJP should undertake such an initiative(s) in Indian Country that provide for
tribal involvement and is designed to competentiy address the culturai
dimensions of alcohol abuse in Indian Country.
• More rehabii'itation resources shouid be avaifabie for communities.
• Fund longer term, comprehensive treatment services that are proven by
research to be effective.
• Place initiatives firmly in the contexts that this group highlighted—poverty,
cultural discrimination, and racism.
• Fund local communities in order to address the possible over-concentration of
alcohol outlets in high crime areas.
- �. Communities shouid focus upon offering alternatives to alcohol use that would
meet community needs as aicohoi use and related crime decrease (i.e., sports
_ programs for young people, respite care for parents, etc.).
• Conduot a community-based initiative within the context of a mu4ti-site urban
neighborhood demonsfration/evaluation pro}ect.
• Characteristics of an effort to develop and increase the effectiveness of
community-based initiatives include:
Weaving research on current community programs into ongoing, related,
and new initiatives in communities;
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► Allowing a one year to 18 month planning period to invoive stakeholders;
► Identifying high risk areas in the United States through a review of the
incidence and prevalence of alcohol-related crimes;
► Identifying existing community coalitions in those high risk areas;
► Supporting the development of commu�ity coalitions where none exist
and fF�eir continuation where they do exist; and
► Supporting regional forums on a(cohol and crime on an annual basis.
Training
The group made severat recommendations regarding OJP's support of training efforts.
Train interested court officials on options for promoting effective community
programs.
Train interested courticommunity officials to increase community awareness of
alcohol-related crime problems.
Include an emphasis on alcohol issues in the design of all criminal justice
training (i.e., police, corrections, etc.) sponsored by OJP.
Provide fraining and direction fo law enforcement wit(� the goal of effectively
partnering with a(coho(ic beverage contro( agencies on enforcemenf issues.
Technica! Assistance
The group offered two recommendations involving how technical assistance might be
used to further OJP's activities in this area.
_. �._� _.__•_ �__w Prov_ide culturally_sensi#iv_e technical assistance to communities who are working
to reduce alcohol-related crime.
Provide technical assistance to communities who are interested in promoting the
closing of problem liquor outlets (or limit proliferation of outlets) and in banning
(iquor bi(Iboards that might be seen by young people.
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- Part VI: Research, Evaluation, and Knowledge Dissemination
= - Overview
A pervasive theme throughout the symposium and across all working groups was the
need to develop and disseminate knowledge on. the nature of alcohol abuse and crime
� and on effective policy and program responses. The beginning of this part of the report
identifies recurcent, research refated themes from across alf four working groups. The
- remainder of this part highlights specific research needs and topics that arose within
each working group.
Developing Knowledge on "What Works"
Each of the four groups identified as a priority the development of sound evaluation
research on cur�ent interventions to create a more comp(ete understanding of the
approaches and programs which are most effective in addressing alcohol-related crime
__ probiems in diverse cultural settings.
Disseminating Existing Information on "What Works"
:: Each of the four groups asserted that existing research knowledge is not easily
available or accessible to those who develop policy and programs to address these
issues--particularly at the state and locai level. There is a strong desire to understand
� °what works° with respect to domestic violence, offender interventions, underage
aicohoi use, and community initiatives. The four groups recommended that OJP:
Promote and market research about what works and about best practices
through the Internet, the use of video formats, and more extensive publications;
Translate the results of research into "user-friendly" fiormats in addition to their
publication in the research liferature; and
Develop a clearing house specifically on alcoholic beverage control issues.
Collaboration between Researchers and Practitioners
A third area of agreement that emerged across the groups was the need for
researchers and practitioners to form partnerships. As researchers begin to
understand more cleariy the context of interventions, the needs that practitioners have
for information, and the goals of interventions, their research efforts will become more
targeted to practitioner needs and, hopefully, more useful to practitioners. Similarly, as
practitioners communicate more directly with researchers, they wilf be able to provide
better information for research purposes and will benefit from sigorous thinking about
defining p�ogram outcomes.
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All four g�oups recommended that OJP:
Support research and evaluation that inc(udes the collaboration between the
researchers and practitioners as part of its design;
• Support research that specifically involves communities who are implementing
the interventions to be studied or evaluated; and
Collaborate with other federa( agencies who fund research on differenf aspeefs
of alcohol abuse and crime should, themselves, collabarate to develop a better
understanding of this complex problem.
Research within Different Cultural Contexts
All of the groups identified knowledge gaps in their particular areas and recommended
specific areas that need further investigation. Topics varied widely across all four
groups, every one of the groups identified Yhe need for knowledge development about
atcohol-related crime within specific cultural contexts. Gollectively the four groups
strongly conveyed the sense that whatever the limits of our existing knowledge about
alcohol-related crime in the majority culture, they pale in comparison with our lack of
knowledge about afcohol-related crime within Native American, Nafive American, and
Hispanic cuitures, tn order to address these research needs, the four groups
recommended that OJP:
• Conduct ethnographic and qualitative research to understand the variable.
impact which alcohol abuse and crime has in certain cultural contexts;
• Develop better research tools and methods to reach under-represented,
immigrant, and other populations who are not being reached by currenf research
methods;
• Pursue research specifically designed to assess the impact of alcohol policy on
vio(ence in communifies generally, buf especially within communifies in Indian
Country; and
• Develop research programs that examine the relationship of community contexts
(i.e., racism, cultural discrimination, poverty, political and personal
powerlessness) to alcohol-related crimes.
Research Methods
Participants at the symposium articulated a number of recommendations about
research strategy and methods. Members of the working group of effective
interventions for offender populations encouraged:
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The use of experimental designs; and
= • The support of long-term studies to measure the impact of treafinent among
offender populations.
Research Recommendations from the Working Group on the Roie of Aicohcf in
Domestic �olence and ifs Implications for Criminal JusEice lnterventions .
Participants emphasized that basic research is needed regarding the complex
relationship between atcohol abuse and domestic violence, as wetl as the impact which
botfi alcohol treatment and bafterers interventions—alone and 'sn combination—have
upon victim safety. The positive impact of treatment on violent crime in generai
appears to be fairly well established through existing research. It is not clear, however,
whether this research is generalizable to intimate violence.
This particular recommendation is critical because of the anecdotal information which
suggests that during the ear{y stages o4 alcohof treatment for domestic violence
offenders the risk of viofence (physicai and non-physicai) and coercion may actually
increase. This has obvious implications for victim safety. '
Yet anothe� dimension of this compfex set of issues, is the degree to which alcohol
treatment for the victims of domestic violence may actually increase their risk of re-
victimization. fVlany chemically dependent victims leave substance abuse treatment in
response to the increased danger or are othervvise unabie to compiy with treatment
demands because of the obstacles constructed by their partners.
Other recommended research topics included:
• The epidemiology of vio{ence against women in al{ forms through the life span;
� Pre-intervention and root problems as a pre-requisite to designing interventions;
• EfFective assessment strategies;
• Domestic viofence and substance abuse deve{opmentai issues re{ating to young
women and teens;
• Differences and similarities between illicit drug use and domestic violence, and
alcohol use and domestic violence;
• The impact of community invoivement in domestic violence and alcohol
intervention programs—both through process and outcome evaivations;
• The impact of managed care on services for both domestic violence and alcohoi
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abuse; and
Prevention oriented research on the inter-generational nature of domestic
violence and aicohol.
Research Recommendations from the Working Group on Effecfive Offender
Interventions
Perhaps the most aignificant outcome of the discussion on offender interventions was a
recognition of a lack of consensus about what constitutes acceptable treatment
standards for this populafion. Specific recommendations for research topics which the
group felt should be pursued in this area are:
• Scientifically-based assessment tools for alcohol abuse screening, risk
� assessment related to alcohol abuse, and diagnosis;
• Effective treafinent and inferventions, botfi short and long term, for drunk drivers;
• The effects of combining treatment and sanctions when intervening with
offenders; and
• Alcoho( abuse and crime in proportion to its importance as a drug of abuse—
which is significant, and greater than many drugs of abuse which we research
extensively.
l2esearch Recommendations from the Working Group on the Underage Use of
Alcohol
The participants i� this group asserted that OJP should support and promote research
on:
• The impacts of ail policies and initiatives developed and implemented at the
stafe or (ocal level fo address fhe underage use of alcohol and its negative
consequences (in the form of empirical evaluations);
• The use of the empirical evaluations to inform policy development;
• The effects of alcohol advertising on underage persons;
• Topics in both basic and applied studies over both the short and long term;
• The relationship between underage illicit drug use and the underage use of
alcohoF,
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'= • The prevalence of alcohol-related victimization among youth;
• The determinants (including psychiatric comorbidity) ot drinking pattems among
youth; .
• The effectiveness of alt initiatives and policies on minorify communities before
broad implementation efforfs occur,
• How alcohol problems lead to and develop from other sociat and psychoiogicai
probfems in underage persons;
- • The forms of communication that influence the way that underage persons who
use alcohol act; and
• Alcohol as a cause and correlate of delinquency.
Research Recommendations from the Working Group on Community-Based
: _- Responses aod lnitiatives
The participants in this group agreed that research and evaluation on alcohol abuse
_ and crime should be vigorously pursued by the Office of Justice Programs. 7he group
encouraged OJP to support and promote research which:
• �ocuses on the eva{uation of initiatives that involve community-based,
collaborative approaches which link alcoholic beverage control agencies, law
enforcement, community and neighborhood representatives, merchants, the
-- hospitality industry, and others in crime prevention efforts;
• Identifies patterns of drinking that are most closely associated with crime and
then work to effectively address that 1ink;
• Focuses on communities that have already demonstrated some promise and that
are being funded by OJP agencies;
• Focuses on the evaluation of initiatives in communities who have undertaken
aicohol-refated crime reduction strategies on their own, rather than ones created
by outside intervention; and
• Focuses on cross-site evaluations of communities and on outcomes where
possible.
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Appendix 1
NAT/ONAL SYMPOS/UM ON
ALCOHOL ABUSE AND CR/ME
Convened by fhe
Office of Justice Programs
U.S. Department of Justice
Hyatf Regency Washington on Capifol Hill
April5-7, 1998
SYMPOS(UM AGENDA
Sunday, April 5, 1998
3:00 p. m. - 7:30 p. m.
Registration
Ticonderoga WaII
4:00 p.m. - 4:15 p.m. Welcome and Opening
Yorktown
Assistant Attomey General Laurie Robinson
4:15 p.m. - 5:15 p.m. Plenary Session l: Sefting the Framework for Discussion
Yorktown
Panel Moderator: Shay Bilchik, Administrator, O�ce of
Juvenile Justice and Delinquency
Prevention, O�ce of Justice Programs,
U.S. Department of Justice
Speakers:
♦ Enoch Gordis, M.D., Director,
National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and
Alcoholism, Bio/ogical/Psychosocial
Perspective
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♦ Robin G. W. Room, Ph.D., Vice
President, Addiction Research
Foundation, Ontario, Canada, Cultural
and Anthropological Perspective
♦ Susan Cameron, Ph.D., College.of
Education, University of New Mexico,
American lndian Perspective
5:15 p.m. - 5:45 p.m. Interactive Discussion with Panelists
� Yorktown
5:45 p.m. - 6:15 p.m. Working Groups; Introductions and Expectations
Yorktown
Symposium Moderator: Honorable Joanne Smith, Ramsey
County Court, St. Paul, Minnesota
6:15 p.m. - 7:30 p.m.
Reception
Congressiona/ A
Monday, April 6, 1998
7:00 a.m. - 6:00 p.m.
8:00 a.m. - 8:30 a.m.
Registration
Trconderoga Wa/l
Continental Breakfast
Yorkfown
8:30 a.m. - 8:35 a.m. Call to Order
Review of Symposium Themes
Yorktown
Symposium Moderator: Honorable Joanne Smith
8:35 a.m. - 9:30 a.m. Plenary Session II: ldentifying the lssues—Crime and Alcohol
Abuse
Yorktown
Panel Moderator: Jeremy Travis, Director, National
Institute of Justice, O�ce of Justice
Programs, U.S. Department of Justice
Speakers:
♦ Andrew McGuire, Executive Director,
� The Trauma Foundation and Pacific
Center for Violence Prevention, Review
of Prevenfion Issues and Initiatives
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9:30 a.m. - 9:55 a.m.
9:55 a.m. -10:00 a.m.
♦ Brenda Mitter, Ph.D. Acting Director
Research lnstitute on Addictions,
Impact on �ctims, Domestic Violence
Perspective
♦ Robert Nash Parker, Ph.D., Director,
Robert Presley Center for Crime and
Justice Studies, University of Califomia,
Review of What We Know About the
Relationship Between Crime and
Alcohol Abuse.
Interactive Discussion with Panelists
Yorktown
Introduction to Working Groups
Yorkfown
Symposium Moderator: Honorab)e Joanne Smith
■ The Role of Alcohol in Domestic Violence and /ts
Implicafions for Criminal Justice lnterventions
Chair: Katia Garrett, Attorney Advisor, Violence
Against Women Grants O�ce, Office of Justice
Programs, U.S. Department of Justice
■ Effective Interventions for Offender Populations
Chair: Stephen Amos, Deputy Director, Corrections
Program O�ce, Office of Justice Programs, U.S.
Department of Justice
■ Communify Based Responses and Initiatives
Chair: Thomas Feucht, Direcfor, Crime Control
Division, Nationa! Institute of Justice, Office of Justice
Programs, U.S. Department of Justice
The Underage Use ofA/coho/
Chair: Gina Wood, Director, Concentration of
Federal Efforts Program, Office of Juvenile Justice
and Delinquency Prevention, O�ce of Justice
Programs, U.S. Department of Justice
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10:00 a.m. -10:15 a.m.
10:15 a.m. -12:30 p.m.
12:30 p.m. -12:45 p.m.
12:45 p.m. - 3:00 p.m.
1:15 p.m. - 1:25 p.m.
Break
Refreshments served in the Hal! of Baft/es
Working Groups: Defning Problems and Issues
The Working Group on The Ro% of Alcoho! in Domestic
�o%nce and Its /mplications for Criminai Justice
/nterventions wiil meet in the Columbia Foyer.
The Wodcing Group on Efifecfive /nterventions for
OffenderPopu/ations will meet in the Regency Foyer.
The Working Group on Communify Based Responses
and /nitiatives will meet in Bunker Hill.
The Working Group on The Underage Use ofA(coho/will
meet in Columbia C.
Break
Lunch and Ptenary Session llt: Current Criminal Justice
Responses
Yorkfown
Associate Attorney General Raymond Fisher will provide
welcoming remarks.
1:25 p.m. - 2:45 p.m. Panel Moderator: Nancy Gist, Director, Bureau of Justice
Assistance, Office of Justice Programs,
United States Department of Justice
Speakers:
♦ Leo Nayden, Executive Director,
Corrections Options Programs, TASC,
Inc., lnterventions for Offenders within
the Correctionai Sysfem
♦ Harold Hotder, Ph.D., Director,
Prevention Research Center,
Pacific Institute for Research and
Evafuaiion, Prevention and
Infervenfion in the Community
♦ Honorable J. Michael Kavanaugh,
Albuquerque Metropolitan Court, Court
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Interventions with DWI Offenders
♦ David J. Mactas, Vice President,
Hazeiden Recovery Services of New
York, Alcohol and Substance Abuse
Treatment Overview of Practice and
Effecfiveness
A
2:45 p.m. - 3:00 p.m.
Interactive Discussion with Panel Members
Yorktown
3:00 p.m. -3:15 p.m.
3:15 p.m. - 5:00 p.m.
5:00 p.m. - 5:15 p.m.
Break
Refreshments served in the Hall of Battles
Working Groups: Current Responses and their
Effectiveness
The Working Group on The Ro/e of Alcohol in Domestic
Violence and lts lmplications for Criminal Justice
lnterventions will meet in the Columbia Foyer.
The Working Group on Etfecfive lnferventions for
OffenderPopulations will meet in the Regency Foyer.
7he Working Group on Community Based Responses
and Initiatives will meet in Bunker Hill.
The Working Group on The Urtderage Use ofA/cohol will
meet in Columbia C.
Break
5:15 p.m. - 6:00 p.m. Plenary Feedback
Yorktown
Symposium Moderator: Honorabie Joanne Smith
Tuesday, Apr+17, 9998
7:30 a.m. - 11:00 a.m.
8:00 a.m. - 8:30 a.m.
Registration
Trconderoga Wall
Continental Breakfast
Capitol Room Wa/l
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8:30 a.m. - 9:00 a.m. Ptenary Session IV: Charge to Working Graups-
Developmenf of Recommendations
Capito! Room
Symposium Moderator. Honorable Joanne Smith
9:00 a.m. -10:55 a.m. Working Groups: Development of Recommendations
(Please note that some locations for the working groups are
different on Tuesday than they were on Monday.)
The Working Group on The Ro% of Afcohol in Domesfic
�o%nce and /ts /mp/ications for Crimina/ Justice
lnterventions will meet in Congressional A.
The Working Group on Effective /nterventions for
OffenderPopu/ationswill meet in Concord.
The Working Group on Community Based Responses
and /nitiatives wilt meet in Bunker Hill.
The Working Group on The Underage Use ofA/cohol will
meet in Lexingfon.
11:00 a.m. -1:00 p.m. Registration
Capitol Room Wa/l
11:00 a.m. -1:00 p.m. Plenary Session V: Report ofWorking Groups and Close
. , Capitol Room
,. Symposium Moderator: Honorable Joanne Smith
% At�omey General Janet Reno will attend a portion of fhe
, closing Plenary session to hear the Working Groups'
preliminary recommendations.
Karol Kumpfer, Director, Center for Substance Abuse
Prevention will provide preliminary comments on the
recommendations.
Assistant Attomey General Laurie Robinson will close
the Symposium.
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Appendix 2
NATIONAL SYMPOSIUM ON
ALCOHOL ABUSE AND CRIME
Convened by the
Office of Justice Programs
U.S. Department of Justice
Hyatt Regency Washington on Capitol Hil1
April5-7, 1998
PARTICIPANT LIST
Leslie Acoca
Director
Women and Girls Institute
National Council Crime
and Delinquency
685 MarKet Street, Suite 620
San Francisco, CA 94105
Phone: (415) 896-6223
Fax: (415) 896-5109
Track: The Role of Alcohol in
Domestic Violence and its
Impffcations for Crimina{ dustice
Interventions
Monica Alexander
Crime Analyst
Charlotte-Mecklenburg
Police Department
601 E. Trade Street
Charlotte, NC 28202
Phone: (704) 336-8783
Fax: (704) 336-7799
Email: pdmla@mail.charmeck.nc.us
Track: Community Based
Responses and Initiatives
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Stephen Amos -
Deputy Director
Corrections Program Office
Office of Justice Programs
810 7fh Street, IVW
Washington, DC 20531
Phone: (202) 616-5970
Fax: (202) 307-2994
Track: Effecfive fnterventions for
Offender Populations
Karen Arfichoker
Executive Director
Sacred Circle
- - National Resourse Center
~ 722 St. Joseph Sfreet
= Rapid City, SD 57701
-� Phone: (605) 341-2050
Fax: (605j 341-2472
= Track: The Role of Alcohol in
-. Domestic Violence and its
Implications for Criminal Justice
Interventions
David Atkins
Heaffh Care Adminstrator
Indian Health Service
5300 Homestead Rd NE
Albuquerque, NM 87i 10
Phone: (505) 248-4444
Fax: (505) 248-4129
Email: datkins@smtp.his.gov
Track: Effecfive Inferventions for
Offender Populations
Judith Audet
Citizen Volunteer
8707 Sudbury Place
Alexandria, VA 22309
Phone: (703} 360-6079
Fax: (202) 514-7805
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Gene Bames
District Administrator
Alcoholic Beverage Control
9350 Front Street, Room 5056
San Diego, CA 921Q1
Phone: (619) 525-4603
Fax: (619) 231-1171
Track: Community Based
Responses and Initiatives
Marlene Beckman
Special Counsel to the Assistant
Affomey General
Office of Justice Programs
U.S. Department of Justice
810 7th Street, NW
Washington, DC 20531
Phone: (202) 616-3562
Fax: (202) 514-7805
Shay Bilchik �
Administrator
Office af Juvenile Justice and
Delinquency Prevention
U.S. Department of Justice
810 7th Street, NW
Washington, DC 20531
Phone: (202) 307-5911
Fax: (202) 307-2093
Patricia Bland
Trainer
Providence Health System/New
Beginnings
600 University #1200
Seattle, WA 98101
Phone: (206) 320-8174
Fax: (206) 320-3001
Email: PBLAND@PMCPROXY.ORG
Track: The Role of Alcohol in
Domestic �olence and ifs
Implications for Criminal Justice
Interventions
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Anekia 8oatwright
1821 Dexter Street
Savannah, GA 31401
Phone: (803)777-0695
Fax: (803) 777-0677
Track: URderage Use of Alcohol
(van BoweKaty,
Criminal investigafor
Sureau of indian Affairs
Office of Law Enforcement Services
PO Box 66
Albuquerque, NM 87103
Phone: (505) 248-7937
Fax: (505) 248-7095
Track: Underage Use of Alcohol
Noel Brennan
Deputy Assisfant Atfomey General
Office of Justice Programs
U.S. Department of Justice
810 7"' Street, NW
Washington, DC 20531
Phone: (202) 307-5933
Fax: (202) 594-7805
Daniel Brookoff
Associate Director
Medical Education
Methodist Health System
1525 Carr Avenue
Peggy B. Burke
Senior Associate
Center for Effective Public Policy
8403 Colesviile Road, Suite 720
Silver Spring, MD 20910
Phone: (301) 589-9383
Fax: (301) 589-3505
Track Community Based
Responses and Initiatives
William Butynski
Director of Policy
Substance Abuse Prevention and
Policy Center
9508 Biltmore Drive
Silver Spring, MD 20901
Phone: (301) 588-0128
Fax: (301) 587-7752
Track: Underage Use of Alcohol
Susan Cameron
University of New Mexico
College of Educat+on
Simpson tiall #119
Albuquerque, NM 87131
Phane: (505) 277-4535
Fax: (5d5) 277-8361
Track: Community Based
Responses and Initiatives
Dale Campbell
Memphis, TN 38104 Director
Phone: (901) 726-8785 Native American Programs
Fax: (901) 726-8254 DISMAS Charities, Inc.
Track: The Role of Alcohol in P.O. Box 85033
Domestic Violence and its Tucson, AZ 85754-5033
Implications for Criminai Justice Phone: (520) 546-5897
Interventions Fax: (520) 546-5897
Track: Effective tnteroentions for
, Offender Populations
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Sharon Cantelon
Program Manager
Office of Juvenile Justice and
Delinquency Prevention
Offce of Justice Programs
U.S: Department of Justice
810 7th Street, NW
Washington, DC 20531
Phone: (202) 616-3658
Fax: (202) 514-6382
Email: sharie@ojp.usdoj.gov
Track: Underage Use of Alcohol
-- Constance Carley
: Regional Coordinator
Oregon Commission on Children
- � and Families
� 530 Center Street NE Suite 300
Salem, OR 97310
Phone: (503) 373-1570
Fax: (503) 378-8395
Track: Underage Use of Alcohol
Madeline Carter
Senior Associate
Center for Effective Public Policy
8403 Co(esville Road, Suite 720
Silver Spring, MD 20910
Phone: (30f ) 589-9383
Fax: (301) 589-3505
Track: Underage Use of Alcohol
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Nita Carter
Technical Assistance Manager
National Resource Center on
Dorpestic Abuse
6400 Flank Drive, Suite 1300
Harrisburg, PA 17112
Phone: (800) 537-2238
Fax: (717) 545-9456
Track: The Role of Alcohol in
Domestic Violence and its
Implications for Criminal Justice
Interventions
Paul Casagrande
Program Manager
Executive Office for Weed and Seed
U.S. Department of Justice
810 7"' Street, NW, 6�' Floor
Washington, DC 20531
Phone: (202) 616-9354
Fax: (202) 616-1159
Track: Underage Use of Alcohol
Jan Chaiken
Director
Bureau of Justice Statistics
U.S. Department of Justice
810 7"' Street, NW, 2" Floor
Washington, DC 20009
Phone: (202) 307-0765
Fax: (202) 307-5846
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Nancy Chase
Public Heaith Advisor
Center for Substance Abuse
Prevention
5600 Fishers Lane, Suite 800,
Rockwall II
Rockvilte, MD 20857
Phone: (301) 443-9938
Fax: (301) 443-5592
Email: nchase@samhsa.gov
Track: Community Based
Responses and Initiatives
Andrew Chishom
ProfessorlDirector
Southem Region Vo{ence and
Substance Abuse Prevention Center
Institute of Public Affairs, USC
Columbia, SC 29208
Phone: (803) 777-0695
Fax: (803) 777-0677
Track: Underage Use of Alcohol
Patrick Coleman
Resident Praetitionec
Bureau of Justice Assistance
O�ce of Justice Programs
U.S. Deparfinent of Justice
810 7fh Street, NW
Washington, DC 20531
Phone: (202) 616-0313
Fax: (202) 305-2542
Email: colemanp@ojp.usdoj.gov
Janna Cooper
Program Manager
National Association of Drug
Court Professionals
901 N. Pitt Street, 3uite 370
Alexandria, VA 22314
Phone: (703) 706-0576
Fax: (703) 706-0577
Track: Community Based
Responses and Initiatives
James Copple
Director
Coalition, State, and Field Services
National Crime Prevention Council
1700 K Street, NW
Washington, DC 20006
Phone: (202) 466-6272
Fax: (202) 296-1356
Email: jcopple@ncpc.org
Track: Underage Use of Alcohol
Cabetl Cropper
Executive Director
National Criminal Justice
Association
444 North Capitol Street, NW
Washington, DC 20001
Phone: (202) 624-1440
Fax: (202) 508-3859
Track: Effective Interventions for
Offender Populations
Maureen Da(bec
Director of Research
The Century Council
1201 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW
Washington, DC 20004
Phone: (202) 661-4701
Fax: (202) 661-4711
Email: mdalbec@centurycouncil.org
Track: Community Based
Responses and Initiatives
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Mike Dalich
Chief of Staff
O�ce of Justice Programs
U.S. Department of Justice
810 7"' Street, NW
Washington, DC 20531
Phone: 202-307-5933
Fax: 202-514-Z805
Johnnetta Davis
Deputy Director
American Medical Association
515 North Sfafe Sfreef, 8th Floor
Chicago, IL 60610
Phone: (312) 464-4168
Fax: (312) 464-4024
Track: Underage Use of Alcohol
Raymond Daw
Executive Director
NW New Mexico Fighting
Back/Na'nizhoozhi Cenfer, (nc.
2205 East Boyd Drive
Gallup, NM 87309
Phone: (505} 722-2177
Fax: (505) 722-5961
Track: Community Based
Responses and fnifiafives
Herman Diesenhaus
Team Leader
Scientific Analysis Team
Center for Substartce
Abuse Treatment
87Q0 Fishers Lane, Rockwall II,
Rockvilie, MD 20857
Phone: (301) 443-6575
Fax: (30'! ) 480-3144
Track: The Role of Rtcohoi in
Domestic Volence and its
lmplications for Criminal Justice
Interventions
Bonnie Duran
Assistant Professor
University of New Mexico
2400 Tucker NE #947
Albuquerque, NM 87131
Phone: (505) 272-4194
Fax: (505) 272-4494
Track: The Role of Alcohol in
Domestic Violence and its
!mplications for Criminal Justice
(nterventions
Robert Denniston
Director
- Health and Human Services
� Secretary's Initiative on Youth
Substance Abuse Prevenfion
SAMHSA
5600 Fishers Lane, Rockwall II,
Room 900
Rockvi!!e, MD 20857
Phone: (301) 443-2188
Fax: (301) 443-7072
Email: rdennist@samhsa.gov
Eduardo Duran
Directar
Behavioral Health Services
First Nation's Community
Heaith Source
4100 Silver S.E.
Albuquerque, NM 87908
Phone: (505) 262-2489
Fax:(505)262-0781
Track: The Role of Alcoho! in
Domestic Violence and its
Implications for Criminal Justice
Interventions
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Hedy Emery
Healthy Nafions
Commun'sty Organizer
Northwest New Mexico Fighting
Back, inc.- Heaifhy Nations
PO Box 5781 �
Farmington, NM 87499
Phone: (505) 368-7450
Fax: (505) 368-5582
Track: Community Based
Responses and Initiatives
Patricia Fauone
Assisfant Professor
Kansas University Medical Center
390't Rainbow Stvd
Kansas City, KS 66160-7502
Phone: (913} 588-1656
Fax: (913) 588-1660
Track: The Role of Alcohol in
Domestic Violence and its
lmplications for Criminal Justice
Interventions
Thomas Feucht
Director
Crime Control and Prevention
Division
Nafional Institute of Justice
U.S. Department of dusfice
810 7th Street, NW
Washington, DC 20531
Phone: (202) 307-2949
Fax: (202) 305-8622
Emai�: feucht@ojp.usdoj.gov
Track: Community Based
Responses and Initiatives
t
Nikki Finch
National SADD Student of the Year
Students Against
Destructive Decisions
PO Box 60022
Taitahassee, FL 32313
Phone: (850) 853-2744
Fvc (850) 561-1405
EmaiL
Faith N_Jesus@Rocketmaif.com
Track: Underage Use of Alcohoi
Raymond Fisher
Associate Attomey General
U.S. Department of Justice
950 PennsylVania Avenue, NW,
Room 5214
Washington, DC 20531-0001
Phone: (202) 514-9500
Fax: (202) 514-0238
Nora Fitzgerald
Research Analyst
ADAM Program
Nationaf tnstitufe of Justice
U.S. Departmenf of Justice
810 7th Street, NW
Washington, DC 20531
Phone: (202) 305-1547
Fax: (202) 616-0275
Email: fitzgera@ojp.usdoj.gov
Track: Community Based
Responses and 4nitiatives
Lenny Foster
Project Director
Navajo Nation Corrections Project
PO Drawer 709
Window Rock, AZ 86515
Phone: (520) 571-6234
Fax (520) 871-2266
Track: Ef�ective Interventions for
Offender Population
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Katia Garrett
Attomey Advisor
�otenc.� Against Women
Grants Office
Office of Justice Programs
U.S. Department of Justice
810 7th Street, NW, 6th Fioor
Washington, DC 20531
Phone: (202) 616-3580
Fax: (202) 305-2589
Email: garrettk@ojp.usdoj.gov
Track: The Role of Atcohol in
Domestic Violence and its
Implications for Criminal Justice
Interventions
Edward Gondolf
Associate Director of Research
Mid-Atlantic Addiction Training
Insfifufe
245 Hamill Road
Indiana, PA 95705
Phone: (724) 357-4749
Fax: (724} 357-3944
Track: The Role of Alcohol in
Domestic Violence and its
Implications for Criminal Justice
Interventions
Enoch Gordis
Director
�
Matthew Gissen
President
The Village - Partners in Recovery
3180 Biscayne Blvd
_., Miami, FL 33137
Phone: (305) 573-3784
_ Fax: (305) 576-1348
Track: Effective Interventions for
Offender Populafions
Nancy Gist
Director
Bureau of Justice Assistance
Office of Justice Programs
U.S. Department of Justice
810 7th Street, NW
Washington, DC 20531
Phone: (202) 616-6500
National Institute on Alcohol Abuse
and Alcoholism
6000 Executive Blvd. Room 400
Rockville, MD 20892
Phone: (301) 443-3885
Fax: (301) 443-7043
J. Phillip Gossage
Senior Research Scientist
University of New Mexico/ CASAA
23650 Alamo SE
Albuquerque, NM 87106
Phone: (505) 768-0104
Fax: (505) 768-09 9 3
Email: jgossage@unm.edu
Track: Community Based
Responses and lnitiatives
Marcus Grant
President
International Center for Alcohol
Policies
1519 New Hampshire Avenue, NW
Washington, DC 20036
Phone: (202) 986-1159
Fax: (202) 986-2080
Track: Community Based
Responses and Inifiatives
Page 2-8
John Grebert
Chief of Pa[ice
Colonie Police Department
312 Wolf Road
Latham, NY 12110
Phone: (518) 783-2800
Fax: (518} 786-7326
Track: Underage Use of Alcohol
Lawrence Greenfeld
Deputy Director
Bureau of Justice Statistics
U.S. Deparment of Justice
810 7'" Street, NW
Washington, DC 20531
Phone: (202) 61&3281
Fax: (202) 307-5846
Email: larrv(cDoin usdoi nov
John "Jack" Gustafson
Executive Director
National Association of State Alcohol
and Drug Abuse Directors
808 17fh Street, NW Suite 410
Washington, DC 20006
Phone: (202) 293-0090
Fax: (202) 293-1250
Track: Underage Use of Alcohol
George Hacker
Director
Alcohol Policies
Center for Science in the
Public fnterest
1875 Connecticut Avenue, NW,
Suite 30
Washington, DC 2QOQ9-5728
Phone: (202) 332-9110
Fax: (202) 265-4954
Email: ghacker@cspinet.org
Track Underage Use of Alcohol
Lawrence Hauser
Judge
Bridgeport Superior Court
172 Goiden Hiff Street
Bridgeport, CT 06604
Phone: (203) 579-6540
Fax: (2U3} 579-6928
Track: The Ro{e of Alcohol in
Domestic Volence and its
Implications for Criminal Justice
Interventions
Leo Hayden
Executive Director
Corrections Options Programs
TASC
1500 N. Halsted
Chicago, IL 60622
Phone: (312) 573-8370
Fax: (312) 787-9663
Track: Effective Interventions for
Offender Populations
Kerry Healey
Public Policy Consultant
Abt Associates fnc.
10 Curtis Point
Beverly, MA 01915
Phone: (617) 349-2719
�ax: (617) 349-2610
Track: The Role ofi Alcohol in
Domestic Violence and its
lmplications for Criminal Justice
Interventions
Melody Heaps
President
TASC, {nc.
1500 N. Halsted Street
Chicago, IL 60622
Phone: (312) 573-8203
Fax: (312) 787-9663
Track: Effective {nterventions for
OfFender Populations
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-,
Bobby Heard
Director of Programs
Mothers Against Drunk Driving
511 E. John Carpenter Pkwy
Suite 700
Irving, TX 75062
Phone: (214) 744-6230
Fax: (972) 8692207
Track: Underage Use of Aicohol
Norena Henry
Director
American Indian/Alaskan Native
Affairs O�ce
Office of Justice Programs
` U.S. Department of Justice
810 Seventh Street, NW
= Washington, DC 30531
Phone: (202) 6'16-3205
: Fax: (202) 514-7805
- Email: henry@ojp.usdoj.gov
� Track: Underage Use of Alcohol
Bisi Hightower
Program Adminisfrafor
Healthy Start, Inc.
805 Ledlie Street
Pittsburgh, PA 15219
Phone: (412) 247-4009
Fax: (412) 247-0187
Track: The Role of Alcohol in
Domestic Violence and its
Implications for Criminal Justice
Interventions
Ralph Hingson
Professor and Chair
Boston University School of Public
Health
715 Albany Street, TW250
Boston, MA 02118
Phone: (617) 638-5160
Fax: (617) 638-4483
Track: Underage Use of Alcohol
Haroid Holder
Director
Pacific Instifute for Research
and Evaluation
2150 Shatfuck Avenue, Suite 900
Berkeley, CA 94704
Phone: (510) 486-1111
Fax: (510) 644-0594
Track: Community Based
Responses and Initiatives
Cindy Johnson
City Council Member
Lincoln City Council, 555 S. 10th
Lincoln, NE 68508
Phone: (402) 441-7515
Fax: (402) 441-6533
Email: councit@ci.lincoln.ne.us
Track: Community Based
Responses and Initiatives
Claire Johnson
Senior Researcher
National Council on Crime
and Delinquency
1325 G Street, NW, Suite 770
Washington, DC 20005
Phone: (202) 638-0556
Fax: (202) 638-0123
Denise Johnson �
Team Leader
Family and Intimate Violence
Prevention Team
Center for Disease Control
4770 Buford Hwy NE MS K60
Atlanta, GA 30341
Phone: (770) 488-4277
Fax: (770) 488-4349
Track: The Role of Alcohol in
Domestic Violence and its
Implications for Criminal Justice
lnterventions
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PatJohnson
Deputy Director of Medical Research
National Center on Addiction and
Substance Abuse
152 W. 57th Street
New York, NY 10019-3310
Phone: (212) 841-5207
Fax (212)841-5220
Track: Effective Interventions for
Offender Populations
Linda Wolf Jones
Executive Director
Therapeutic Communities of America
1611 Connecticut Avenue, NW,
Suite 46
Washington, DC 20009
Phone: (202) 296-3504
Fax: (202) 518-5475
Track: Effective Interventions for
Offender Populations
Nolan Jones
Director
Human Resources Group
National Governors Association
444 North Capitol Street, NW,
Suite 267
Washington, DC 20001
Phone: (202) 624-5360
Fax: (202) 624-5313
Track: The Role of Alcohol in
Domestic �o{ence and its
Implications for Criminal Justice
Interventions
Girvaud Justice
Community Representative
1512 North McDowell Street
Charlotte, NC 28205
Phone: (704) 376�558
Fax: (704) 376�558
Track: Community Based
Responses and Initiatives
Glenn Karr
Highway Safety Administrator
National Highway Traffic Safety
Administration
400 7"' Street, SW
Washington, DC 20590
Phone: (2d2) 366-0350
Fax: (202) 366 2766
J. Michael Kavanaugh
Chief Judge
Bernalillo County Metropolitan Court
PO Box 133
Albuquerque, NM 87103
Phone: (505) 841-8193
Fax: (505} 841-8192
Track: Effective Interventions for
Offender Populations
Kara King
4539 Robney Drive
Cofumbia, SC 29209
Phone: (803) 777-0695
Fax: (803) 777-0677
Track:_ Underage Use of Alcohoi
Kevin Kfinkerfues
Probation O�cer III
1 st Judicial Disfrict
10745 W. 12th Place
Lakewood, CO 80215
Phone: (303) 271-6393
Fax: (303) 271-6317
Track: Effective Interventions for
Offender Populations
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Mary Koss
Professor of Public Health
University of Arizona
2223 East Speedway Boulevard
Tucson, AZ 85779
Phone: (520) 626-7863
Fax: (520) 318-7226
Track: The Role of Alcohol in
Domestic Violence and its
Implications for Criminal Jusfice
Interventions
Karol Kumpfer
Director
Center for Substance Abuse
Prevention
5600 Fishers Lane, Rockwall fl,
Suite 900
Rockville, MD 20857
Phone: (301) 443-0365
Fax: (301) 443-5447
Sandra Lapham
President
Behavior hiealth Research Center of
the Southwest
_., 4600 "A" Montgomery Blvd. NE,
Albuquerque, NM 87109
" Phone: (505) 830-3099
Fax: (505) 830-3408
Track: Effecfive tntervenfions for
, Offender Populations
Anna Latimer
Executive Director
National Association for Native
American Children of Alcoholics
1402 Third Avenue #1110
Seattle, WA 98101
Phone; (206) 467-7686
Fax: (206) 467-7689
Email: nanacoa(cDnanacor.org
Nancy Owen Lewis
Chief Operating O�cer
Behavioral Heafth Research Cenfer
of the Southwest
4600 "A" Montgomery Blvd NE
Suite 101
Albuquerque, NM 87109
Phone: (505) 830-3099
Fax: (505) 830-3408
Track: Effective Interventions for
Offender Populations
Douglas Lipton
Senior Research Fellow
National Development and Research
Institutes, Inc.
Two World Trade Center, 16th Floor
New York, NY 10048
Phone: (212) 845-4547
Fax: (212) 845-4698
Track: Effective Interventions for
Offender Populations
Patrice Lockhart
Counselor
Colonie Police Department
312 Wolf Road
Latham, NY 12110
Phone: (518) 783-2753
Fax: (518) 786-7326
Track: Underage Use of Alcohol
Laura Ludwig
Deputy Director
Ohio Department of Public Safety
805 Gladden Road
Columbus, OH 43212
Phone: (614) 466-7Q76
Fax: (614) 466-0533
Track: Underage Use of Alcohol
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Rhonda J. Lundborg
Federai Aid Coordinator
Alaska Department ofi Corrections
240 Main Street, Suite 700
Juneau, AK 99801
Phone: (907) 465-4640
Fax: (907) 465-3390
David Mactas
Vice President
Hazelden Recovery Services of
New York
60 East 42nd Street, Suite 1001
New York, NY 10165
Phone: (212) 557�161
Fax: (212) 557-6234
Jay Marshalt
Chief
Comprehensive Programs
Bureau of Justice Assistance
U.S. Department of Justice
810 7th Street, NW
Washington, DG 20531
Phone: (202) 616-3215
Fax: (202) 616-2421
Chris Martin
Deputy Sheriff
Sacramento Sheriff's Department
711 G Street, Room 405
Sacramento, CA 95814
Phone: (916j 874-8401
Fax: (916) 874-5263
Track: Effective Interventions for
Offender Populations
Susan Martin
Health Scientist Administrator
Nationai institute on Afcohol Abuse
and Alcohofism
6000 Executive Bivd
Rockville, MD 20892
Phone: (301) 443-8767
Fax: (301) 443-8774
Email: smartin@willco.niaaa.nih.gov
Track: Underage Use of Alcohol
Joan McCord
Professor
Temple University
623 Broadacres Road
Narberth, PA 19072
Phone: (610) 667�197
Fax: (61 Q) 667-0568
Track: Underage Use of Alcohol
Barbara McCrady
Professor and Clinical Director
Center of Afcohol Studies
Rutgers University
607 Allison Road .
Piscataway, NJ 08854-8001
Phone: (732) 445-0667
Fax: (732) 445-5944
Track: The Role of Alcohof in
Domestic Violence and its
Implications for Criminal Justice
Interventions
Peggy McGarry
Seniot Associate
Certter for Effective Public Po4icy
8403 Colesville Road, Suite 720
Silver Spring, MD 20910
Phone: (301) 589-9383
Fax: (301) 589-3505
Track: The Role of Atcohol in
Domestic Violence and its
lmplications For G�iminal .lustice
Interventions
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Andrew McGuire
Executive Director
Trauma Foundafion
1001 Potrero Avenue, Building 1,
Room 300
- - San Francisco, CA 94110
-- Phone: (445) 821-8209
Fax: (415) 282-2563
- Track: Underage Use of Alcohol
Michael McPhaii
� County and Youth Court Judge
- Forrest County
200 West Pine Street, PO Box 990
Hattiesburg, MS 39403-0190
�� Phone: (601) 545-6075
_ Fax: (601) 545�105
-- Track: Underage Use of Alcohoi
Brenda Miller
Acting Director
Research institute on Addictions
1021 Main Street
Buffalo, NY 14203
Phone: (716) 887-2515
Fax: (716) 887-2252
Track: The Role of Alcohol in
Domestic Violence and its
Implications for Criminal Justice
Interventions
Angela Moore-Parmley
- � National institute of Justice
U.S. Department of Justice
810 7"' Street, NW
` Washington, DC 20531
Phone: (202) 307-0145
Fax: (202) 616-0275
James Mosher
Senior Poticy Advisor
Marin Insfitute
6116 Highway 9, Suite 6A
Felton, CA 95018
Phone: (408) 335-1140
Fax: (408) 335-1141
Track: Underage Use of Alcohol
Femando J, Muniz
Youth Director
Regional Youth/Adult Substance
Abuse Project
75 Washington Avenue
Bridgeport, CT 06604
Phone: (203) 333-3333
Fax: (203) 333-9118
Email: nandomuniz@aol.com
Becki Ney
Senior Associate
Center for Effective Public Policy
32 E. Montgomery Avenue
Hatboro, PA 19040
Phone: (215) 956-2335
Fax: (215) 956-2337
Track: Effective Interventions for
Offender Populations
Robert Nash Parker
Director
Robert Pressley Center for Crime
and Justice Studies
University of California
Riverside, CA 92521
Phone: (909} 757-4604
Fax: (909j 787-7394
Track: Community Based
Responses and Initiatives
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Carolyn Peake
Social Science Anafyst
National {nstitute o4 Justice
U.S. Department of Justice
810 7th Street, NW
Washington, DC 20531
Phone: (202) 616-3234
Fax: (202) 307-6256
Emait: peakec@ojp.usdoj.gov
Albert Antony Pearsall
Chief, West Branch
Bureau of Justice Assistance
U.S. Department of Justice
810 7th Sfreet, NW
Washingfon, DC 20531
Phone: (202) 616-3298
Fax: (202) 305-1367
Emait: �earsatl(rpojn.udoi.aov
Ada Pecos Melton
President
American Indian
Development Associates
2401 12th St, NW
Albuquerque, NM 87104
Phone: (505) 842-1122
Fax: (505) 842-9652
Track: Underage Use of Alcohol
Scott Peterson
Office of Juvenile Justice and
Delinquency Prevention
U.S. Department of Justice
S10 7"' Street, NW, Room 8138
Washington, DC 20531
Phone: (202) 616-2368
Fax: (202) 3Q7-2819
Calvin Red Thunder, Sr.
Correcfional institution Adminstrator
Fort Peck Assiniboine and
Sioux Tribes
Branch of Corrections
PO Box 1027
Poplar, MT 59255
Phone: (406) 768-3406
Fax: {406J 768-344�
Track: Effective interventions for
Offender Populafions
Winifred Reed
Program Manager
National Institute of Justice
810 7"' Street, NW
Washington, DC 20531
Phone: (202) 307-2952
Fax (202) 307-6394
Track: Community Based
Responses and Initiatives
Edward Reina
Chief of Police
Rena-Sparks Indian Colony
1995 East 2nd St�eet
Reno, NV 89502
Phone: (702) 785-8776
Fax: (702) 785-9163
Track: Effective Interventions for
Offender Populatians
Scott Reiner
Substance Abuse Program
Supervisor
Vrginia Department of Juvenile
Justice
PO Box 1110
Richmond, VA 23218-1110
Phone: (804) 371-0720
Fax: (804) 371-0727
Emaif: sreiner@erols.com
Track: Underage Use of Alcohot
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Robert Reynolds
Direcfor
Nationai Center for the
Advancement of Prevention
11'f40 Rockville Pike, Suite 600
Rockvilte, MD 20852 '
Phone: (301) 984-6507
Fax: (301) 984-6559
Track: Communiry Based
Responses and Initiatives
Vernon Roanhorse
District Prosecutor
Navajo Nation Prosecutors Office
Canoncifo/Alamo Office of
the Prosecutor
- PO Sox 3993,
- Canoncito, NM $7026
Phone: (505) 836-2331
-. Fax: (505) 831-9609
: Track: Community Based
Responses and Initiatives
Marilyn Roberts
Director
Drug Cou�ts Program Office
Office of Justice Programs
U.S. Department of Justice
810 7"' Street, NW, 6�' Floor
Washington, DC 20531
Phone: (202} 616-5055
Fax: (202) 514-6452
Track: Effective lnterventions for
Offender Populations
Laurie Robinson
Assistant Attorney General
Office of Justice Programs
U.S. Department of Justice
810 7th Street, NW
Washington, DC 20531
Phone: (202) 307-5933
Fax: (202) 595-6033
Robin G. W. Room
Vice President
Research and Development
Addiction Research Foundation
33 Russefl SVeet
Toro�to, Ontario, M-5-S-2s1
Phone: (416) 595-6055
Fa�c (416j 595-6033
Gerald Rouse
Vice Presidenf
National Councit of Juvenile and
Family Court Judges
County Judge, 5"' Judiciat Disfricf
Seward County Court
PO Box 37
Seward, NE 68434
Phone: (402) 643-3214
Fax: (4Q2) 643-2950
Track: Underage Use of Alcohol
Bob Schurmeier
Deputy Police Chief
Char(otfe-Meck(enburg
Police Department
601 East 7rade Street
Charlotfe, NC 28202
Phone: (704) 336-2345
Fax: (704) 336-5712
Track: Community Based
Responses and Initiatives
Kathy Schwartz
Administrator
Violence Against Women
Grants Office
Office of Justice Programs
U.S. Department of Justice
810 7"' Street, NW. Room 6318
Washingfon, DC 20531
Phane: (202) 307-3595
Fax: (202) 305-2589
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Linda Sanchez
Executive Director
Pceventing Alcohol Related Trauma
in Salinas
21 West Laurel T3rive, Suite 73
Sa{inas, CA 93906
Phone: (408) 442-7761
Fax: (408) 442-7766
Track: Commun+ty Based
ResQonses and (nitiatives
Stephen Schosnthaler
Professor of Sociology and
Criminal 3ustice
Califomia Sfate Univers'sty -
Stanislaus
801 W. Monte Vista
Turlock, CA 95382
Phone: (209) 667-3222
Fax: (209) 664-7067
Track: Effective Interoentions for
Offender Populations
Carol Schroeder
A&DlHtV Supervisor
Oregon Depa�tment of Corrections
Counseling and Treatment Services
2575 Center Street NE
Salem, OR 9731�
Phone: (503) 378-8373
Fax: (5�3) 378-5118
Track: Effective lnterventions for
Offender Populaiions
Harvey Siegal
Professor
Department of Community Health
Director of Subsfance Abuse
{ntervention Program
Wright State Unversity
School of Medicine
Post Office Box 927
Dayton, OH 45401
Phone: (937) 775-2850
Fax: (937) 775-2171
Track: The Role of Aicohol in
Domestic Volence and its
Implications for Criminal Justice
tnterventions
John Simonet
Director of Corrections and
Undersheriff
Denver Sheriff Department
Post Office Box 1108
Denver, CO 80201
Phone: (303) 375-5690
Fax: (303) 375-5500
Track: Effective Interventions for
Offender Populations
Joanne Smith
District Court Judge
Triaf Court - State of Minnesota
15 W. Kellogg Blvd
St. Paul, MN 55102
Phone: (612) 266-9190
Fax: {612) 266-8311
Emal:joanne.smith@courts.state.mn.us
Track: Community Hased
Responses and Initiatives
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__. Arkan Somo
Executive Director
=== San Diego Merchants Associafion
-- 9621 Campo Road, Suife E
Spring Valley, CA 91977
- Phone: (619} 464-8485
-- Fax: (619) 464-9440
._� Track: Communify Based
- Responses and Initiafives
_ Kathryn Stewart
-, Deputy Director
' National Center for the
Advancement of Prevention
11140 Rockville Pike, Suite 600
� Rockvilfe; MD 20852
-- Phone: (301) 984-6509
- Fax: (301) 984-6559
Track: Underage Use of Alcohof
- Rose Strickland
Director
Latino Council on Alcohol and
_ Tobacco and National Capita(
Coalition to Prevent
- Underage Drinking
--- 1015 15"' Street, NW
Washington, DC 20005
Phone: (202) 246-0671
Fax: (202) 216-0672
Email: nccpud@erols.com
= Track: Underage Use of Alcohol
Lisa Swafford
Resident Practitioner
Bureau of Justice Assistance
U.S. Department of Justice
810 7�' Street, NW, 4"' Floor
Washington, DC 20531
Phone: (202) 6163462
Fax: (202) 305-1367
Email: syraffor�oip.usdoi�,4ov
Tom Talbot
Program Assistant
Cenfer for Effeative Public Policy
8403 Colesville Road, Suite 720
Siiver Spring, MD 20910
Phone: (301) 589-9383
�ax: (301) 589-3505
Patrick Tarr
Senior Policy Anatyst
Office of Policy Development
U.S. Department of Justice
950 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW
Washingfon, DC 20531
Phone: (202) 514-3592
Fax: (202} 514-9112
Jeffrey Tauber
President
Nationa( Association of Drug
Court Professionals
901 N. Pift Streef
Atexandria, VA 22314
Phone: (703} 706-0576
Fax: (703) 706-0577
Track: Effective Interventions for
Offender Populations
Linda Teplin
Professor
Norfhwestern University
710 N. Lakeshore #900
Chicago, IL 60611
Phone: (312} 503-3500
Fax: (312} 503-3535
Sue Thau
Washington Representative
PITCH, fnc.
6217 29�' Sfreet, NW
Washington, DC 20015
Phone: (202} 966-4361
Fax: (202) 966-4361
7rack: Underage Use of Alcohol
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Traci Toomey R. Dale Watker
Associate Director Professor and Chair
Alcohol Epidemiology Program Department of Psychiatry
University of Minnesota Oregon Heaith Sciences University
1300 South 2"' Street 318'I SW Sarra Jackson Road
Minneapotis, M�I 55454-1015 Porttand, OR 97201
Phone: (612) 626-9070 Phone: (503) 494-5494
Fax: (612) 624-0315 Fax: (503) 494-6152
Track: Underage Use of Afcohol Track: The Role of Atcohof in
� Domestic Volence and its
Jeremy Travis Implications for Criminal Justice
Director tnterventions
National Institute of Justice
Office of Justice Programs
U.S. Department of Justice
810 7fh Street, IVW
Washington, DC 20531
Phone: (202) 307-2942
Fax: (202} 307-6394
KeNy K Vance
Senior Manager
Center for Effective Pub{ic Policy
8403 Co{esville Road, Suite 720
Silver Spring, MD 20910
Phone: (301 } 589-9383
Fax: (301) 589-35�5
Track: Community Based
Responses and tnitiatives
Chrisfy Visher
Science Advisor to the Dicector
National Institute of Justice
Office of Justice Programs
U.S. Department of dustice
810 7th Street, NW
Washington, DC 20531
Phone: (202) 307-0694
Fax: (202) 307-6394
Deborah Warner
Clinica{ Direefor
Center for New Beginnings
229 Cotfage Stseet, PO Box 9935
littleton, NH 03561-0935
Phone: (603) 444�465
Fax: (603} 444-6233
Track: Effeotive Intervenfions 4or
Offender Populafions
Beves{y Watf Davis _
Executive Directoc
San Antonio Fighting Back of
United Way
2803 East Commerce
San Antonio, TX 78203
Phone: (210) 271-7232
Fax: {210) 271-1087
Katrina Weinig
Senior Counset
Office of Policy Development
U.S. Department of Justice
950 Pennsytvania Avenue, NW
Room 4250
Washington, DC 20530
Phone: (202) 514-7473
Fax: (202) 514-1685
Track: Underage Use of Alcohol
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Beth Weinman
Programs Coodinator
National Drug Abuse
Federa! Bureau of Prisons
320 First StreeE, NW
�"Jashi�gton, DC 20534
Phone: (202) 514-4492
Fax: (202) 616-3220
Emaii: bweinman@bop.gov
Track: Effective Interventions for
Offender Populations
Connie Weisner
Senior Scientist and Adjunct
Professor
School of Public Health
Univesity of California, Berkeley
2000 Hearst Avenue Suite 300
Berkeley, CA 94709
Phone: (510) 450-2156
Fax: (510) 642-7175
Track: The Role of A►cohol in
Domestic Violence and its
tmplications for Criminal Justice
Interventions
William Wieczorek
Director and Research Professor
SUNY College at Buffalo
Center for Health and
Social Research
'l300 Elmwood Avenue
Buffalo, NY 14222
Phone: (716) 878-6137
Fax: (716) 878-4009
Track: Effective Interventions for
Offender Populations
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Maggie Witmore
Senior Coordinator Family Services
SAMHSA/HHS
5600 Fishers Lane Room 17-89
Rockville, MD 20857
Phone: (301} 443-8216
Fax: (301) 443-3437
Email: mwilmore.samsha.gov
Laura Winte�eld
Nationat Instifute of Jusfice
U.S. Department of Justice
810 7"' Street NW
Washirtgton, DC 20039
Phone: (202) 616-3482
Fax: (202j 307-3694
Gina Wood
Director
Concentration of Federal
Efforts Program
Office of Juvenile Justice and
Delinquency Prevention
U.S. Department of Justice
810 7th Street, NW
Washington, DC 20531
Phone: (202) 616-9159
Fax: (202) 307-2093
Track: Underage lJse of Alcohol
Wilbur Woodis
Management Analyst
Indian Health Service
5300 Homestead Road NE
Albuquerque, NM 87110
Phone: (505) 248-4121
Fax: (505) 248-4129
Track: Community Based
Responses and tnitiatives
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Jim Wright
Youth Program Manager
National Highway Transportation
Safety Administration
400 7th Street, SW Room 5118
Washington, DC 20590
Phone: (202) 366-2724
Fax: (202) 366-2766
Emaii: jwright@nhfsa.dot.gov
Track: Underage Use of Aicohol
Theresa Zubretsky
Director
Human Services Poticy and Planning
New York State Office for the
Prevention of Domestic Viotence
52 Washington St, 3rd Floor
Rensselaer, NY 12144
Phone: (518) 486-6262
Fax: (518) 486-7675
Track: The Role of Alcohof in
Domestic Violence and its
Implications for Criminal Justice
lnterventions
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WHEREAS, the Office of License, Inspections and Environmental Protection and the Vice
Unit oE the Saint Paul Police Department have conducted a limited number (ranging from
25 to 75 checks) of liquor compliance checks each year fox the last 10 years, and
WHEREAS, the office of License, Inspections and Environmental Protection has been
selected to participate in a liquor compliance project Yunded by the Robert Wood Johnson
Foundation, in cooperation with MBC presentations, an entity that provides alcohol
awareness training to liquor dealeis throughout the State of Minnesota, and
WHEREAS, the office of License, Inspections and Environmental Protection and the Saint
Paul Police Department's vice Unit plan to conduct Prom 75 to 100 compliance checks in
1998, taxgeted at locations whexe mi.nozs are likely to able to obtain alaohol, and
WHEREAS, the funding pzovided in the amount of $3,000.00 would be used to purchase
product, and recruit, train, and compensate underage decoys to be used in the above
mentioned liquor compliance checks,
WHEREAS, the Mayox, pursuant to Section 10.07.04 of the city charter, recommends the
following changes to the 1998 budget:
Current
Bud e
FINANCING PLAN:
Depa:tment of Executive Administration
Division - License, 2nspections, and
Environmental Protection
GL 320 33353 6999 Othex Mi.sc. Revenue N.O.C.
All Other Activity Financing
3PENDING PLb�N:
Department o£ Executive Administration
Division - License, Inspections, and
Environmental Protection
GL 320 33353 0298 Snvestigations
Al1 Other Activity Spending
Ordinance #
Green Sheet # 50432
RESOLUTION
CITY OF SAINT PAUL, MINNESOTA
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$2.373.959
$2,373,959
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Bud e
$ 2,500
2 371,459
$2,373,959
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Chanae Bud e
$3,000 $ 3,000
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ORIGINAl.
Adopted by Council : Date �,�, a� 1qq�
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Adoption Certified by Council Secretary
By:
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REQUESTED: Approval of a resolution to accept grant funds for liquor
nce checks for 1998 to be performed by the Police and LIEP.
APPROVE (A) OR REJECT �R)
INING COMMISSION _ CNIL SERVICE COMN.ISSIO
CDMMITTEE _ SUSINESS REVZEW CoUNCIL
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WHICH COUNCIL OBJECTIVE?
SERVICS CONTRACT$ M[i3T PNSWBR T8E POLL041SNG:
Has the pezsoni£ixm ever wotked ssnder a contracC for this depar[ment?
YES NO
Aas this person/fizm ever baen a City Employse?
YES NO
Does this person/firm Bossess a skill not normally possessed by any
clirxent City esployee?
YES NO
aia a11 YES aaawars on a saparaCe sheaG ead attach.
TIATING PROBLEM, ISSUE, OPPORTUNITY (Who, What, When, Where, Why):
support of the Mayor's priority to reduce the availability of liquor to
ors funds are available to assist the City in carrying out additional
uor compliance checks in 1998. Alcohol Awareness classes will also be
vided to Saint Faul license holders as part of this program, but funding
the classes will be provided separately from this grant.
GES IF APPROVED:
ent funcls will be available to pay the cost of recruitment and
g, for underage decoys so the City will be able to conduct up to 100
at the approximately 500 license liquor establishments in the City.
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IF APPRQVED:
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DISADVANTAGES IF NOT APPROVED:
Phe number of compliance checks would be diminished.
'OTAL AMOUNT OF TRANSACTION $ 3,000 COSTJREVENUE BUDGETED� YES NO
UNDING SOURCE Private Grant ACTIVITY NUI�ER 320 33353 0298
INANCIAL INFORMATION: (EXPLAIN)
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Dear Colleague:
U.S. Degartment of Justice
Office of Justice Programs
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June 30, 1998
I would like to take this opportunity, once again, to thank you for participating in the National
Symposium on Alcohoi Abuse and Crime convened eazlier this spring by the U.S. Department
of Justice, Office of Justice Programs. Tt was an exciting and productive event for us at OJP.
From the feedback I've had from participants, I lrnow that many of you also felt it was a
worthwhile opporiunity for diatogue on this important issue.
The commihnent that I made to you at the close of the Symposium--in response to your
unanimous request--was to share with you the report smxunarizing reoommendations which
emerged from the Symposium. Today, I am pleased to send you that report.
I hope you will find these recommendations useful and informative as you confinue your own
discussions and work on the issue of alcohol abuse and crime in your communities. At the
Office of Justice Programs, we will be looking to it as we move forwazd to plan and implement
initiatives during this and future years.
Again, thank you for your hard work and your thoughtful insights.
Sincerely,
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Laurie binson
Assistant Attorney General
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Part I.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Overview. The Nationa{ Sympasium on
Alcohoi Abuse and Crime . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
The Role of Alcohoi P,buse in Damestic
Volence and ifs implications for
Criminai Justice interventions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
Effeetive Intervent+ons for Offender Populations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
Underage Use ofAlcohoi ................................... 23
Cammunify-based Responses and fnitiatives . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31
Research, Evaluation, and Knowiedge Dissemination . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37
Part 1{.
Part NI.
Part iV.
Part V.
Part Vi.
Appendix1. Symposium Agenda .......................................1-1
Appendix 2. Symposium Participants . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-1
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Part 1: Overview: The National Symposium on Alcohot Abuse and Grime
In the fa{I of 1997, Assistanf Attomey General Laurie Robinson convened a federal
interagency working group fo pfan a National Symposium on Alcohoi Abuse and Crime.
in the Assistant Attomey Generai's words, the symposium wouid �...reinforce what we
all know and want to #ocus on—that the tinks between alcohol abuse and crime and
what to do about this problem are of critical importance to the health and safety of
America's communities.' .
Purpose and Focus
In the months preceding the symposium, hefd in Washington, D.C. on April 5- 7, 1998,
fhe inferagency group identified key topics and speakers; structured the working
sessions of the agenda; and—perhaps most impo�tantiy—carefuQy identified more than
one hundred expert participants. Age, gender, and ethnic diversity—along with
professional diversity—characterized the individuals who were ultimate{y invited to
participafe.
The specific purposes of the symposium were:
To convene recognized feaders from fhe alcohol field including research,
treatment, criminal justice, community and victim advocacy, and prevention;
To provide a forum for these participants to engage in an honest and open discussion
of our current knowledge of the relationships between afcohol abuse and crime in all
of its dimensions, as weli as the breadth and effectiveness of our current criminal
justice and treafinent responses to alcohoi abuse and crime; and
To provide advice and guidance to the Office of Justice Programs (OJP) regarding
how it can best provide support to ongoing and emerging efforts to reduce alcohol-
related crime and its consequences.
ln ordec to focus the work of the symposium, the interagency planning group identified four
specife topic areas around which the working groups were organized. The topics were:
• The role of aicohol in domestic viofence and its implications for criminai justice
interventions;
• Effective interventions for offender populations;
• Community-based �esponses and initiatives; and
• The underage use of a{cohol.
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Recommendations to the Office of Justice Programs
Symposium Format
Participants were invifed to join one of four working groups each organized around one of
the primary topics listed above in fhe Purpose and Focus se�tion. Each group was asked to
identify the major problems in its area, summarize current criminai jusfice responses to those
problems and what we know of their effectiveness, and develop a specific set of
recommendations about actions the Office of Justice Programs can take to reduce alcohol-
related crime and its consequences.
Pienary presentations, designed to provide participants with a common frame of reference
for fheir discussions, supptemented the working group sessions. The presentations were
representative of a wide variefy of perspectives and covered the current state of knowledge
on alcohol abuse and its relationship to crime; treatment approaches and fheir effectiveness;
cultural and ethnic dimensions of alcohol abuse; the role of alcohol in domestic violence;
community initiatives to address alcohot-related crimes; interventions within the correctional
system; and fhe underage use of alcohol_ The symposium agenda, which identiftes plenary
session topics as well as the presenters, is included as Appendix 1.
After two days of panel presentations and lively discussions, the four working groups
formulated their recommendations and hightighted their priority recommendations in a
presentation attended by a(! of the symposium parficipanfs and Afforney General Janet
Reno.
Participants
The response to QJP's invitation to participate in the symposium was ovenvhelming.
Ultimately, approximately 950 individuals, representing a broad variefy of disciplines
and perspectives, participated in the symposium. They included:
• Criminat justice officials from many different agencies inciuding law enforcement
personnel, judges from juvenile and adu(t courts as well as specialized alcohol
and drug courts, prosecutors, jail administrators, and representatives from
institutional and community based correct+ons agencies;
• Youth representatives;
• Representatives from collaborative community efforts to control alcohol-related
crime including alcohotic beverage control agencies, the retail industry, and the
alcohol beverage indusfry;
• Di�erse public policy practitioners and advocates such as local elected officials,
public hea(fh advocates, community organizers, and educators;
• Treatment and prevention specialists from the alcohol, substance abuse, and
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-- domestic violence arenas;
- • Vcfim advocates including representatives ofi the domestic violence advocacy
- • community;
� • Researchers and eva(uators; and
• Federal poticy makers, funders, and program managers.
- A comp{ete listing of fhe sympasium's participants is included as Appendix 2.
- Major Themes of the Symposium's Recommendations
-- While the symposium participants generated hundreds of recommendations during the
: course of their discussions, this report presents a synthesis of the recommendations
which fall most clearly within the purview of the Office of Justice Programs. There were
=- several key themes that emerged with striking consistency in all four groups which
�= provide a coherent framework for the numerous recommendations provided by the
symposium participants.
• Alcohol is a drug that is closely linked with crime, particularly violent crime. As a
result, it should have greater visibility in our efforEs to deal with crime and
' viofence. The four groups encouraged OJP to support initiatives which
- acknowledge alcoho! as a drug and which target the crime re(ated to afcoho!
abuse and its consequences.
- • OJP can provide important leadership on this issue by continuing to emphasize
the inclusion of alcoho{ in the dialogue about substance abuse, and to
; emphasize statistica! and qualitative information about the high propo�tion of
crime related to alcoho� abuse. .
The problems of alcohol abuse and crime, by their nature, cross all of our
traditional professional, jurisdictional, racial, efhnic, gender, and even
generational boundaries. If we are to begin to address these problems more
effectively, we must develop collaborative efforts—bringing together 1aw
enforcement, the courts, corrections agencies, treatment providers, victim
advocates, community representafives, health professians, researchers, alcohol
beverage control agencies, the alcohol beverage industry, the hospitality
industry, youth, and others. Therefore, the four groups encouraged OJP to
support initiatives which are based upon collaboration.
Efforts to prevent and respond to alcohol-related crime must be sensitive to the
communities and the cultural confext in which they occur, and must be
competent within those communities. 1t would be di�cult to overestimate the
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strength of conviction which participants felt on this point whether in relationship
to domestic violence, offender interventions, the underage use of alcohol, or
community initiatives. .
The consequences of alcohol abuse and alcohol-related crime fatl
disproportionately upon communities in Indian Country, A Native American is
475% more likely to die of alcohol-related causes than is the average American.
fn addition, other conditions such as unempfoyment and family disruption that
corre(ate hi�hty with crime in aii communities are experienced disproportionateiy
in Indian Country. Prevention and intervention effo�ts regarding alcohol-related
crime must be cognizant of these needs and the disproportionate impact of
alcohol abuse and crime in Indian Country.
One of the barriers impeding our progress in utilizing the knowtedge that we do
have is the gap that exists between research and practice. Each of the working
groups at the symposium spoke passionately of the need to use the knowledge
we have, to make it available to communities and practitioners as they mobilize
their efforts to deal with alcohol abuse, and to share our knowledge abouf what
works. The four working groups ertcouraged OJP to disseminate emerging
research results widely and in a form thaf is accessible and understandable to
the broader community. They also encouraged OJP to support research on the
fopic of alcohol abuse and crime in proporfion to ifs importance as a drug of
abuse—which is sign�cant, and greater than many drugs of abuse which we
research e�ensively.
In its broadest sense, community involvement requires the participation of
individua(s who are mosf affecfed by a probtem and its solution. The four
working groups encouraged OJP to undertake initiatives in partnership with
individuals and communities who are most influenced by alcohol abuse and
crime. Youth, victims, racial and.ethnic groups, and specific communities must
be inctuded and empowered to participate in the solutions to these problems.
The working groups found the opportunity for d+alogue at the symposium to be
an important step forward i� addressing the problem of alcohol abuse and crime.
They encourage OJP to consider sponsoring further opportunities for
coflaborative discussions among diverse groups on tF�e role of alcohol in
domestic viotence, effective interventions for offender populations, and the
underage use of alcohol.
Organization of this Report
Each of the working groups af the symposium generated a set of discussion nofes and
an outline of recommendations. Parts tl - V of this report are a synthesis of each
group's discussions and recommendations. Major issues, problems, and needs are
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discussed as "Targefs for Change" in each section and are followed by
recommendations organized into categories. The report attempts to remove
dupiication, combine refated recommendations, and to include primarily those
recommendations which retate to OJP's areas of responsibility. Each group generated
exkensive recommendations regarding research--on research questions, research
methods, and fhe dissemination of research resulfs. To avoid repetition and highlight
common themes, Part VI of the report incorporates recommendations on research from
all four working groups.
Highlighted Recommendations
To fuily appreciate the extent and complexity of the issues which participants discussed
and the recflmmendations which they formulated, the reader is encouraged to review
each of the following sections of this document. However, participants did highiight key
recommendations for discussion wifh OJP during the symposium. These highlighted
recommendations pravide an overview of the full set of recommendations presented in
Parts 11- Vt of this report.
The ro% of a/coho! in domesfic vio%nce and ifs imp/ications for criminal
justice interventions
2. increase funding and support for community-based, culturai(y competent
programs that successfully integrate services across a system that is
currently very fragmented;
3.
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Conduct and support research on initiatives fhat foster linkages among
community groups, service and treatment p�oviders for domestic violence
and alcohol problems, and the criminal }ustice sysfem;
Support screening for and assessment of aicohol use among ali batterers
who are in contact with the criminal justice system;
Ensure that non-coercive a{cohoi treatment options are available for
women who are victims of domestic vio{ence; and
5. Convene a simifar symposium or focus group to look specifically at the
links between domestic violence and alcohol abuse. 7here is stili much
learning to be shared from aii sides, and more dialogue and exploration
that need to happen before specific recommendations can be made with
full agreement.
Effective inferventions for coaecfiona/ popu/ations
Support the development of a comprehensive continuum of care thaf
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connects all etements of the treatment and criminal justice communities
from arrest through discharge from the system;
2. Encourage fhe formulation af a common language for both treatment and
criminal justice practitioners that adequately defines terms, articulates
treatment goals, and adequafely expresses agreed-upon sfandards of
care; .
3. Support the definition and dissemination of accepted `best" treafinenf and
intervention pracfices that are culturaAy competent across all offender
poputations, inctuding Native American populations;
4. Suppo�t the development and imptemenfation of effective treatment
strategies for offender popuiations wha wiH be within the correctional
system for only short periods of time, particularly jail populations; and
5. Encourage a more coordinated and accountable system for responding to
driving under the influence of alcohol.
Underage use of alcobol
Support efforts to focus on alcohol advertising and marketing including: a)
additional research on the effects of alcohol advertising on young
persons, b) fhe allocation of substantiat resources (on a scale similar to
the amount the federal government has allocated for its anti-i!licit drug
media campaign) to purchase media time for messages abouf the
dangers associafed wifh the underage use of alcohot, and c) efforts ta
discourage alcohol advertising and marketing that target and appea! to
underage persons;
2. Support efforfs fo encourage responsible hospitality practices including:
a} consistent enfoccement of laws regarding the sale and distribution of
alcohol to underage persons, b) mandatory comptiance checks of all
alcohol outlets, c} fraining of alcohol merchants and servers regarding the
sate of alcohol to underage persons, and d) the restriction of the number
of alcohol outlets in areas frequented by underage persons;
3. Support col(aborative communify efforts to address the problem of
underage alcohol use that include peer justice and youth empowerment
programs, linkages among the treatment and criminal justice agencies,
and a concerted effort to invofve youth in fhe effort to create an
environmenf which discourages rather than encourages the underage use
of alcohol; and
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4. Provide support for another structured and organized opportunity for
coliaborative d'rscussion on this issue and, in particular, to devetop more
fuNy this working groups's extensive list of recommendations.
Community-based responses and initiatives
Undertake a program of community-based initiatives for prevenfing
atcohol-related crime that are competent with respect to gender and
culture. These initiatives shoutd focus on alcohol outtet availability,
advertising, and the enforcement of alcoholic beverage control
regulations. The initiatives should invotve partnerships with community
sfakeholders and should adopt strategies which include the alcoholic
beverage controt system and should be based upon the existing research
on effective efforts in this area;
2. Support research and evaluation on alcohof-related crime issues that
incorporate partnerships involving researchers and community decision
makers and policy makers and that lead to broad dissemination of
information on "what works" to communities interested in addressing
these issues;
3. Encourage crime-prevention initiatives which incorporate alcoho{ic
beverage control agencies as crime prevention resources; and
4. Enter into a special partnership for Indian Country initiatives on alcohol
abuse and crime, with the active part+cipation of communities within
Indian Country.
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`- Part 11: The Role of Alcohol Abuse in Domestic Violence and Its
implications for Criminaf Justice {nterventions
Background of the Discussion
The discussion began with a review of what the crim9na4 justice system can do to
- address domestic violence generally, and, specifically, domestic violence related to
alcahol abuse. . Par.ticipants agreed that, although there has been significant progress
in caising the visibiliry of domestic violence within the system, the need for more
- effect'sve responses to domestic violence in generat and to domestic violence related to
: alcoho! abuse still presents critical chalienges.
The participants fielt that a difficuit barrier arises from the apparent tension which
emerges between the goai of assuring accountability and sanctions far batterers and
the goal of providing alcohol treatment for batterers. 1n brief, domestic violence
_- advocates are concerned that a heavy emphasis upon an offender's alcohol addiction
== may relieve him ofresponsibility for his actions and downplay deserved sanctions.
Even beyond that, it may encourage the use of treatment resources for addicfion issues
rather than for batterers issues. Some felt that afEer the lengthy battle to label domestic
violence for what it is—a crime—it seems like a step backward to focus upon baiterers
needs for alcohol treatment rather than the punishment they deserve.
At the same time, for those whose violence is exacerbated by alcohol addiction,
addressing addiction issues can be important in preventing future victimization--a
concern for afl domestic violence advocates.
7argets for Ghange
As with the other three working groups, a recurring theme running through the
discussions of the domestic violence group was the importance of co{laboration.
Although particularly difficult in this area, the group identified a number of the potential
benefits of true coflaborafion. They include the ability to:
• Develop a befter understanding of the issues underlying domestic violence and
alcoho! abuse;
• fncrease the frequency and effectiveness of screening at al1 points in the
criminal justice system;
• Recognize the need for and conducf cross-training;
• Truly infegrate service delivery;
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Recognize the need for and conduct research on tinkages;
Provide services to families; and
Assume more responsibility—ultimately—for women's safety across agencPes
{treatment, medical, courts, etc.).
However, the forces militating against collaboration can be significant. Funding
increasingly does require collaboration, but too often efforts can go fonvard unilaterally
without the leverage of funders encouraging or requiring collaboration. In addition, the
diffculties of maintaining collabo�ation, once begun, are well-known.
�ffe�tive Linkages and Integrafion /ssues
Even beyond the genera( need for collaboration, the group felt that effective
intervenfions for domestic violence require specific, rigorous efforts to link agencies
and services. This is critical in order to ensure the safety of victims of domestic
viotence who have alcohot abuse problems and those uvho do not. The dimension of
alcohol abuse only intensifies and makes more complex the requirements for
integration. Severat participants urged using the °peacemake�' approach to address
the intersection of all these fragmented agencies and agendas. Some of the specific
issues in this area raised by participants include the need to:
• Integrate a domestic violence assessment component into atl alcohol freatmenf
programs;
• Integrafe safety-related strategies info all atcohol treatment planning/case plans
for victims of domesfic violence;
•__. Frovide services fhat better meet victims' needs and that are women friendly and
appropriate (this is essential if we are to successfully integrate domestic
violence and alcohol services);
• Bring more community-based representatives to the table when a"team" or task
force is created;
• Look at victims' involvement in the criminal justice system on other charges and
use that involvement to help dea! with alcoho! or drug addiction and
victimization;
• Be clear about the purpose of screening for alcohof or drug addiction for
batterers in the criminal justice system (i.e., is it an avenue of additionaf
intervention, a way to diminish responsibiliry, or wilt it be used to give priority to
alcohol or drug addiction freatment over batferers' intervention and sanctions?);
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• Consider joinf classificafion of bafterers for treatment needs, justice
=- requirements, and risk assessments;
• Assure that specific screening components be inciuded in ail programs
-- associated with alcohoi abuse and domestic violence {i.e., shelters, the
batterers' interview, freafinent, etc.); and
' • lnclude law enforcement as integrai partners in aU coliaborative efforts to
� address domestic violence.
Participanfs suggested a unified court, such as the domestic violence docket which is
currentiy operating in Bridgeport, Connecticut, as a vehicle for assuring integration. A
unified court brings a range of points to bear including victim interests, and does not
have to depend upon the strength of any other agency's particular commitmenf or focus
on this issue. In such a court, the system can:
:-; • Provide a quick response (i.e., by the next day) with no time for intimidation by
the batterer;
• Ensure that ail relevant parties are present in court;
• Provide protective orders;
• Provide regular accountability to the court; and
• Provide finkages to batterers' pragrams in jail and in the community.
T�eatment and intervention
A basic value shared by the members of this group was that every facet of treatment
and the criminai justice system is responsibie for providing safety for women. This
presents significant challenges, since funding and services are often fragmenied.
Other challenges regarding treatment and intervention include the need to:
Avoid victim-blaming;
Develop cultural{y competent treatment;
Recognize that alcohot and domestic violence are inter-generationai and co-
generational, and this has implications for screening and service delivery (i.e.,
treatment as prevention, its role in juvenile offenses; and how to approach +t with
children, teens, mothers, and pa�tners);
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• Develop and implement intervention models that are not colonizing;
• Understand the role and vatue of spirituality. in recovery;
• Address the undermining of linkages and services by the movement of pubiic
services to managed care; and
• Advance the infegration of alcohol treatment and batterers' intervention
programs by exploring such innovations as:
► The intensive case management modei by probation as it is used in some
drug coufts, and
Outreach to judges about integration.
Recommendations
These recommendations reflect a wide breadth of experience among group members.
Aithough there was no effort to achieve consensus, the recommendafions are lisfed in
rough order of priority (within each category) as determined by votes taken during the
discussion. The recommendations fail into the foliowing categories:
• Collaboration;
• Treatment and Infervention;
• Education and information Dissemination;
• Training; and
• Policy.
CoHaboration
Participanfs recommended that OJP support and promote the fotlowing e#Forts and
initiatives.
A continuafion of the dialogue between domestic violence programs
(victimisurvivor and offender treafinent programsj and fhe atcohol field (inciude
representatives from both treatment and prevention) that occurred at the
symposium. One vehicte for such a dialogue would be a forum/conference for
practifioners and poticy makers to review current research and promising
practices regarding alcohol abuse and domestic vio(ence. Such a forum should
include a diversity of opinions and approaches. It could also form a basis for
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subsequent training on the conclusions which emerge from the conference.
Deve{opmenf of an understanding of the cu{tural dimension of a{cohol abuse and
domestic vioience, in particuiar, for freatment in indian Counfry,
Collaboration with other federai agencies fo deai with the probiems of domestic
violence and.alcohoi abuse in at least two ways. �irst, OJP agencies shouid
errter into caflaborative efforts among themselves and with other federal
agencies. 'fhis witi model and encourage collaboration among the state and
local efforts supported by federal funding. Further, OJP funding shoufd be
conditioned upon efForts at collaboration at the local and state leveis.
Encouragement of more coordination among criminal justice agencies and
batferers intervention programs.
Invoivement of survivors (consumer community) as weli as the broader
community in planning, developing, and implementing integrated programming.
Treatment and Intervention
Participants recommended that OJP shauld support and promote fhe following efforts
and initiatives.
• Provision of appropriate non-coercive aicohol treatment options for women who
are victims of domestic violence.
• Screening of offenders for alcohol abuse at all points of contact within the
criminal justice system.
• Development of a model treatment program for batterers that inciudes screening,
an assessment of alcohol use, and addresses the re{ationship between alcohol
abuse and domestic vioience. Such a program shouid be evaluated in terms of
its effectiveness for various typologies of batterers.
• Provision of domestic violence education and prevention services to all high risk
groups (i.e., offenders, ex-offenders, those on probation and parole, and their
families), especially through community-based organizations.
• Provision of information about alcohol use/abuse as a safety issue to victims and
survivors of domestic violence.
• Estabfishment of a domestic violence component in substance abuse programs
with the invoivement and input of the domestic violence victim advocacy
community. This will also require cross-training of respective staff involved in
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assessment, piacement, screening, and a(fernative treatment modalities.
Provision of more resources and facilifies to meet basic needs in many parks of
Indian Country where such resources and facilities are lacki�g (i.e., victim
services, shelters, transporfation, and alcohoi treatment}.
The recognition of domestic violence and alcohol or drug addietion issues in the
homes of juyenites who are in trouble with the law.
Education and lnformation Dissemination
Participants recommended fhat OJP support and promote the following efforts and
ini6atives.
Presentation of cr+minal j�stice system data to the pubiic fo educate and raise
the awareness of domestic viotence as a serious probiem, including the
intersection between domestic �iolence and a(cohol abuse.
Improvements in the measurement of domesfic violence and atcohoi abuse, and
an opening of fhe design process to a wider circle of input.
Training
Participants felt that OJP should support and promote the foliowing efEorts and
initiatives.
integration of training for criminal justice, advocacy, treatment, and other
agencies.
ldentification of best practices and provision of training for law enforcement,
judges, and other decision-makers on domestic violence and alcohol (inkages.
Poticy
Parficipants recommended that OJP support and promote the following efforts and
initiatives.
Development and support of policies which ensure that domestic violence
offenders receive appropriate criminal justice sanctions. Alcohol should nof
mitigate or increase the criminal justice penatty.
Development of more unified court models for domestic violence and alcohol
abuse issues.
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-. Part Ilf: Effective Interoentions for Offender Poputations
- Background of the Discussion
-- A key issue raised by Assisfant Atfomey General Laurie Robinson in her remarks at the
`� opening of the symposium was the prevalence of alcohol abuse among offender
_ populations. The dimensions of this problem have been confirmed recently—both by a
sfudy published by fhe National Center on Addiction and Substance Abuse at Columbia
-� University, and the anatysis prepared by the Bureau of Justice Statistics specificaily for
_. the symposium. That analysis indicates that futly 35 percent of the 5.3 mitlion
convicted offenders under correetionai supervision--nearly 2 million individuals—were
�" under the influence of alcohol at the time of their offense.
= The working group on effe�tive interventions for offender populations discussed how
� the crimina! justice system can effectively intervene with offenders to reduce the
tikelihood of future crime associated with aicohol abuse.
The members of this group were in general agreement that the number and proportion
of offenders moving througfi the system who have significant afcohof probfems is
: staggering. The group also agreed that, among the public and even among policy
makers, there is very little appreciation for this fact. Not surprisingiy, then, the
: resources dedicafed to addressing alcohol treatment for offenders are limifed at best
and non-existent at worst. At least part of the difficulty in assuring adequate resources
has been the heavy focus that the criminal justice system has piaced upon iilicit drugs,
at the expense of identifying alcohol abuse as a priority. Even drug testing, which has
become a widely-used tool in dealing with illicit drug use, often does not target alcoho!
use.
TargeEs for Change
The group identified a number of areas of agreement that may be seen as guiding
princip{es for its recommendations in this area and imply major targets for change and
improvement. Although there was great debate on a number of questions, there
appeared to be some consensus on the following targets for change.
Continuum of Gare
Interventions for offender populations should include a continuum of care from arrest to
discharge a�d involve both short-term and long-term strategies for alcohol treatment.
Current treatment interventions often refy on fragmented, under-resourced, and
generally inadequate attempts to identify alcohol problems and treat them among
offender populations. ln order to achieve the goal of reducing the likelihood of future
crime associated with alcohol abuse, a continuum of care concept is essential. The
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efements of a continuum of care inc(ude: screening; assessmenf for diagnosis and risk;
treatment pianning; provision of treatment for counseling and rehabilitation; transitionai
care from institution to community; relapse prevention and intervention; and linkages
created to tend fo information flow, the flow of offenders through fhe crimina! justice
system, and the flow of offenders from institutions to the community.
Continuing Dia/ogue on Treatmenf and Sfandards of Care
The participants agreed that there is a clear need for further dialogue to develop a
generally accepted definifion of alcohol treatment and to work toward generatty
accepted standards of care. The extensive discussion and debate within the working
group emphasized that there is little agreement on the definition of what constitutes
acceptable atcohof treafinenf. The group discussed a definition which began with an
acknowledgment that treatment is a prescribed regimen of therapeutic intervention
rendered or overseen by a qualified professional consistent with generally accepted
profocols. They also suggesfed thaf some further characteristics of accepfabie
treatment implicit in a"continuum of care° might include:
• The use of scienfificaily-based.assessment foots;
• Treatment matched to the level of offender need;
• Psychological and medical supervision of groups and individuals;
� Peersupport;
• Family intervention and counseling;
• Case management; and
• Treatmenf providers who are licensed and meef specific sfandards.
However, the group could not agree on a definition and noted the need for continuing
dialogue on this topic with the ultimate goals of a common def+nition of treatment and
minimum standards of care.
The participants felt that implication of their conclusion—that there are no accepfed
standards for freatmenf—suggests that the need for dialogue on fhis topic is critical and
should receive priority consideration in OJP's planning in this area.
Culturat Competence
Participants agreed that al! treatment programs and interventions should be undertaken
wifhin a framework of a culfurafty competent system of care that is both age and gender
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specific. They fe{t that much of the treatment that +s available does not adequately
recognize that alcohoi abuse takes place in a culturai context and is affected
intrinsicatly by the gender or age of fhe individual invofved. If we are to expect
interventions to be effective, this must change. The group iderrt�ed a set of specific
recommendations regarding actions wifhin indian Country. They aiso acknowiedged
the over-representation of Native Americans, African Americans, and Hispanic
Americans among offender populations. The group's recommendations emphasize fhe
need for culturaily competent interventions within these communities.
The �sibility of A/coho/ as a Drug
= Although atcohol is 1ega1, participants emphasized that we need to be dear that it is a
drug. They felt that alcohol's legal status should not diminish the priority we place
- upon dealing with the consequences of its abuse. The emphasis on illicit drug use has
often deflected attention from the need to address this problem.
�= Crimina! Justice and Communify Linkages
The group agreed that linkages between the criminal justice system and the community
:. should be developed and expanded.
Public Safefy
Participants emphasized that the focus of this group on treatment and a continuum of
care for offenders is warranted primarily because of the community safety benefits that
it promises. lf we can have a significant impact upon the patterns and instances of
alcohol abuse amorig offender populations which are related to crime (and particularly
violent crime) we make a significant impact upon reducing future criminality and
increasing community safety.
Recommendations
The participants' recommendations concerning effective interventions for offender
populations fall into severa! categories:
• fnterventions and Treatment;
• Interventions for Offenders Who Are Guilty of Driving Under the Inffuence of
Alcohol;
• Interventions for Native American Offenders;
• Interventions for African Americans Offenders and Nispanic American Offenders;
and
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Education and Training.
Interventions and Treatment
Parficipanfs agreed that OJP should support and promote the following efforts and
initiatives.
A more coo�dinated and effecfive delivery system for interventions should be
developed f[om the time of arrest thcough sentencing and execution of a
sentence. This should include clear definitions of goals, objectives, and
outcomes for treatment, intervention, programs and offenders. A more effective
detivery system shouid aiso include linking information systems. There should
be a high levei of coordination between the juvenile and adult systems.
Linkages shouid extend beyond the criminai justice system to inclu�e education,
health and human services, and ofher appropriate fie(ds. The systc� should
operate within constitutiona! and lega( parameters.
Effective interventions and treatment for short-term populations (i.e., jail
populations) should be developed.
• A comprehensive continuum of care and treatment should be developed
throughout the criminal jusfice system thaf acknowledges the movement of
offenders from the community into instifufions and back into the community.
Implicit in this recommendation is the sense of the group that if is important to
consider the variety of target populations that should be identified under the
general categary of "offe�ders.° Their issues and needs regarding treatment
interventions wili vary. These target populations include: convicted drunk driving
offenders; probationers and parolees supervised in the community; offenders
incarcerafed in jail (both prefriat and sentenced) and prison; juvenile offenders;
- - offender subgroups (i.e., sex offenders, menta(ly iIl offenders; drug-involved
offenders who also use alcohol, gang-involved offenders, etc.j; ethnic and
cultural offender subgroups (e.g., Native American oifenders, IVative American
offenders, Hispanic American offenders, etc.); and families of offenders.
Mechanisms for fostering befter coordination of funding at each level of
government and among differenf agencies of government (federal, state, tocal,
and tribal) should be developed. Particular efforfs should be made at the federal
level to coordinate the multiple sources of funding from within the Department of
Justice, from within the Qepartment of Health and Human Services, and from
within other departments.
Restoration shoufd be a goal and a part of the sanction at each stage of the
system and a part of every treatment ptan.
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_ • A broad-based forum shouid be created to aiiow for dialogue about treatment
and intervenfion issues, to heip estabfish a common understanding of the range
= of freatment programs and interventions, and to help estabiish a common
language.
�=- • Scientifically-based assessment tools should be linked or matched to
appropriate treatment and intervention.
- � Additional treafinent resources should be created for alcohol offenders, including
post-release treafinent programs. There are cunently few, if any, resources
_ specific to alcohol. .
� Intervention initiatives should be designed to respond to the varying issues and
needs of smail, large, urban, and rurai jurisdictions.
AI{ offenders shoufd have access to scientifica{ly-based alcohol and other drug
screening and appropriate treatment as part of being held accountable and
punished for their crimes.
- Offenders Who Are Guilty of Driving Under the influence of Alcohoi
For the most part, sanctions for driving under the influence of afcohol are prescribed by
state statute rather than by federal policy. The paRicipants' recommendations which
follow highlight areas in which OJP and other federal agencies might work with state
and local jurisdictions who are interested in prioritizing driving under the influence of
alcoho! as an offense for prosecution and sanctioning, and implementing initiatives
which will contribute to a reduction of such crimes in the future. The participants
agreed that OJP should support the foifowing efforts and initiatives.
Development of an accountable system for dealing with offenders who are guilty
of driving under the influence of alcohol in which:
� Stability is promoted among staff who are committed to long-term change;
� Drunk driving offenses are given a higher priority in the system (priority
docketing, cases are heard more immediately, cases have more prestige,
etc.);
� Information flow through the courts is more effective and reaches
everyone who needs it; and
► Judges are better informed.
Crestion of "specialized" drunk driving courts. Develop critical,program
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efements for drunk driving courts {similar to Defining Orug Courfs: The Key
Componenfs, Drug Courts Program Office, January 1997).
• In jurisdictions where it is not feasible to create a"specialized" court, judges and
others in the crir►�inal justice system should be provided with the information and
skills necassary to dea! effectively with issues related to alcohoi abuse among
the offenders whom they screen, assess, prosecute, adjudicate, and sentence.
• Developmenf of ways fo community outreaches so fhat the generai public
understands issues related to driving under the influence, of alcohol.
• Development of scientifically-based assessment and screening toois for offender
populations.
• Increasing the range of seff-regulating devices which are avaitable to the
general public.
• Development of a national tracking mechanism to track drunk drivers (including
offenses within local, state, federal, and tribal jurisdictions).
• Development of legal changes to amend current laws to allow for limited driving
privileges of some convicted drunk drivers who have had their licenses
suspended (i.e., to gef fo freatmenf or a job}.
• Development of a broader range of sanctions for drunk driving offenses.
Responses to drunk driving should include a combination of punishment,
rehabilitation, and restitution.
� Development of ways to encourage states to amend cuRent laws to allow for
aufo forfeiture for a third time predatory felony drunk driving offense.
(nterventions for Native American Offenders
Consistent with a strong theme running through all of the groups' discussions at the
symposium, the working group on effective offender interventions agreed upon the
need to address the disproportionafe burden of alcohol abuse and crime on .
communities in lndian Country, and the vast over-representation of Native Americans
among correctional populations. The participants agreed that OJP should support the
following efforts and initiatives.
Esfablishment of a working group of Nafive American staff and others from
among federa► agencies (CSAT, OJP, BiA, and others} to foster and coordinate
initiatives in tndian Country, and to address the problems of alcohol abuse and
crime.
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• Development of interventions and treatment for Native American offenders within
= a cultural context which competently resQond to tribal difFerences. At present,
-= there is a significant lack of effective intervention and treatment methodo{ogies
designed specifcall� foe Native American populations.
'- • Development of specialized drug and alcohol cou�ts in tribal courts.
_- • tdentlficatton of specific actions which might be taken in individual Native
�' American communities to reduce afcohol-refated crime. Some examples offered
_ by participants included the closing of drive-up windows for the purchase of
� atcohof and the development of more detention space in Indian Country.
• tdentification and use of the human resources to be found within Native
- American communities when addressing all aspects of this issue (i.e., research,
evaluation, treatment, etc.).
�_ • Clarification of myths and perceptions regarding Native Americans and alcoho{.
Interventions for African American and Hispanic American Offenders
A strong majority ofi the group felt that it was important to emphasize the needs of
� African Americans and Hispanic Americans for effective intervention strategies among
-- offender populations. Both of these communities are over represented among
correctiona! populations in America and face difficult problems with respect to alcohol
abuse and crime. There is a need for culturally competent interventions for these
populations and the participants strongly encouraged to support efforts to develop such
interventions.
� Education and Training
The participants agreed that OJP should support and promote the following efforts and
initiatives.
Training and education of judges, treatment providers, and other criminal justice
decision-makers on issues related to alcohol and crime.
Development of public education and community outreach programs that involve
communities in meaningfu! ways about all the issues related to alcohol and
crime.
Development of ways to encourage collaboration among federal agencies to
provide public education and marketing materials on state-of-the-art research
and evaluation with respect to this topic.
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Part IV: Underage Use of Alcohol
Background of the Discussion
The worfcing group on the underage use of alcohol reviewed current innovations,
-� identified significant needs, and generated recommendations for OJP that address:
The kinds of interventions and initiatives that effeetively address fhe underage
use of alcohol and its negative consequences,
• The complex relationship between alcohol abuse and ilficit drug use;
• The need to more sensitively and competently address the relationship between
- alcohol abuse and crime in tribal communities;
_- • The importance of collaborative partnerships between and among those who are
:; committed to eifectively addressing alcoho!-related crime and its negative
consequences;and
The importance of effectivefy responding to victims of alcohol-related crime.
Afthough the group identified dozens of recommendations, they felt that it would require
more focus and examination to develop them to a point that will allow OJP fo make best
use of them. During the working sessions, the group expressed a collective desire to
participate in another structured and organized opportunity for collaborative discussion
on this issue and in particular, to refine their specific recommendations. The group,
therefore, perceives the recommendations which follow as representing the first of
many important steps in initiating effective and competent change; and looks forward to
the possibifity of engaging in another series of intensive working sessions in the near
future.
The youth representatives who participated in the group brought broad perspectives,
keen insights, passion for the issues, a�d willingness to actively er►gage the adults in
the group. They played a pivotal rofe in the group's discussion and development of
recommendations.
Targets for Change
There are three inter-related guiding principles upon which the group's work was
premised. These principles were unanimously endorsed by the group and provide an
overview of the targets for change which the group identified if we are to make progress
in reducing underage alcohol use and its consequences.
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Co/laborafion Emphasizing Subsfantive Youth Involvement
Participants felt that he need to address aicoho! abuse and crime, inciuding the
underage use of alcohol, will require significant wllaboration. This working group
emphasized the impottance of substantive involvement of youth in these coilaborative
efforts. The creation of a truly collaborative strategy will require support and
assistance from OJP to bring all of the relevant parties together to participate (i.e.,
representafives from the law enforcemenf, treatmenf, research, poficy making, and
juvenile justice arenas), to begin to develop a shared vision, to identify common values,
and fo deve(op linkages"#a carry out shared work. Opportunities for cotlaboration must
exist at the local, state, and national levels as well as in Indian Country.
Competent and Effec6ve Approaches to Dealing with /ssues of Race and Culture
Participants afso fe�t that programs to address the underage use of alcohol and its
negative consequences must be tailored to sensibly respond to the specific cultural
needs of fhose they are fargefing and affecfing. This can be achieved only if individuaf
communities and their members are given the opportunity to actively participate in the
devetopment of initiatives that wilf directly impact them.
Commifinenf to Environmental Change
The working group discussed at length how underage persons in our communities
receive very conflicting messages about a(cohol consumption. In order to reduce the
underage use of alcohol, the group asserted thaf OJP must be committed to developing
poficies and inifiatives which send c(earer, more consistenf, and direct messages to
youth about the dangers and potentia! consequences of alcohol use.
Recommendations
The group's recommendations fall into a number of areas and in several instances,
+nclude a brief list of innovations and promising practices7programs that the participants
identified. The group recommended that OJP research the effectiveness of these
innovafions and promising practices/programs. IF their value and utility can be
documented, OJP should explore ways in which it can encourage other communifies to
adopt the lessons emerging from them.
The fo!lowing recommendations are listed (in each area) in rough order of priarity as
determined by votes taken during the discussion. The categories around which the
group organized its recommendations are:
Community Mobilization;
Enforcemenf;
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• lntenrention;
• Marketing, Public Education, and �ommunity Awareness;
• Prevention;
• Training and Technical Assistance;
• �ctim Issues; and
• Youth lnvolvement.
Community Mobi/ization
Participants felt that OJP should support and promote:
• A national initiative to encourage weekend underage community service projects
to encourage positive community activism among and partnerships between
young persons and adults.
The participants recommended that OJP examine the following innovations and
promising practiceslprograms which focus on community mobilization:
• The "Fighting Back" Program in Gallup, New Mexico;
• The "Community Systems of Care Approach" used by the Mississippi Band of
Choctaw lndians and the Cheyenne River Sioux Tribe;
• CSAP's DREAM Community Partnership in Forrest County, Mississippi;
• The °Assets Project° in BridgeporF, Conneeticut;
• The "Community Readiness Model" from the University of Colorado;
• NANACOA's "Community-based Intensive Training;
• The Saving Lives Program in Massachusetts; and
• CMCA's community organizing program to reduce youth access to alcohol.
Enforcement
Participants felt that OJP should support and promote:
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• Ef{orts by communities to consider restrictions on the number of alcohol outlets
in areas frequented by underage persons (i.e., schools and community centers);
• Consistent, regular, and mandatory compliance checks of alcohol outlets in
communities that are interested in and equipped to conduct lhem;
• A substanfiai increase in the consistency and severity of penalties for both
individuals as well as liquor license holders who seil alcohol to underage
persons; _
• The consistent and appropriate enforcement of zero tolerance taws/statutes in
all jurisdiotions;
• An immediate change in federa! statutes which currently prohibif tribal police
departmenfs from apprehending non-Indians who distribute alcohol to u�derage
persons on fribaf lands;
• An increase in the use of administrative license revocation laws which target
underage persons who are arrested for driving under the influence of alcohol in
communities fhat are inferested in this enforcement approach;
• The expansion of community policing initiatives to include the enforcement of
underage drinking taws and statutes;
• The use and consistent enforcement of condifionaf (iquor licenses; and
• The possibility of using the ignition-interlock system on underage DUI/OUI
offenders.
The participants recommended that OJP examine the following innovations and
promising practices/programs which focus on enforcement:
• The Adolescenf Offender Program (AOD} in Mississippi that is associated with
Mississippi State University;
• 7he STOP Program in Naugatuc, Connecticut;
• The Use and Lose Program in Virginia; and
• The Community Pol+cing Program in Columbia, So�th Carolina.
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/ntervention
Participants recommended that OJP should support and promote:
• Peer justice and youth empowerment intervention pragrams including alternative
sentencing and diversion programs through the use of youth/peer/teen courts;
• Community-based systems of care which creaie positive and effiective
interventions;
• Early idenfification and intervention programs for at-risk youth such as first
offender diversion programs that involve juvenile ofifenders and their families;
• The establishment of links/liaisons between college/university administrations
and students to address campus binge drinking; and
• The inciusion of alcohol-related offenses in juvenile drug courts.
The participants recommended that OJP examine the following innovations and
promising practices/programs which focus on intervention:
The Midtown Manhattan Community Court; and
Spirituality and prayer intervention groups in tribal communities.
Marketing, Public Education and Community Awaieness
Participants recommended that OJP support and promote the following efforts and
initiatives.
Partnerships with other agencies and increased funding at the local, state, and
national levels to restrict alcohol advertising and marketing campaigns that
target or appeai to underage persons by:
► Requiring that there is a balance between alcohoi advertising and health
-- information/messages (counter advertising) that deglamorize underage
alcohoi consumption on billboards, in radio and television broadcasts,
and on coflege/university campuses;
Requiring that all alcohol advertising be preceded by warnings that
explain and describe the dangers associated with the underage use of
aicohol;
Mandating the "time channeling" of alcohol advertisements on television
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so that they do not appear during programs frequently viewed by
underage persons; and
Prohibiting the markefing of youfh-orienfed products (i.e., "atcopops° and
"freeze `n' squeeze°).
• The inclusion of aicohol in Office of National Drug Control Policy and other
government.sponsored anti-drug media campaigns.
• School-based programs to offset the negative effects of alcohol advertising on
young persons.
� Community efforts to limit alcohot advertising on billboards.
• Efforts to stop the promotion of discounted drinks.
• "Hands Off Holidays" campaigns to protect young people and ethniGracial
marketing targets.
• The development of a strategic media and public education campaign that
fargets abroad audience and describes the negative impact and consequences
of the underage use of alcohol.
• Culturally competent educational efforts in Indian Country to teach young Indian
persons how spirituafly, mental(y, and physicaily harmfut alcohot has been to
lndian people.
Prevention
Participants felt that OJP should �upport and promote prevention programs which focus
upon both the environment and on the individual through the provision of technical
assista�ce and resources to assist communities in changing the messages that they
send to underage persons about alcohol. These efforts might include support for
initiatives such as the development of counfer advertising programs and the
introduction and consistent enforcement of provisional liquor licenses.
Training and Technical Assistance
Participants recommended that OJP should support and promote the following efforts
and initiatives.
Opportunities for communities regarding sfrafegic ptanning and the develapment
of initiatives to address the underage use of alcohol and its negative
consequences. This training should incfude:
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► An emphasis on broad participation within and across communities;
_ ► A strong focus on the development and improvement of communication
links between and across community coalitions;
► An evaluation component (possibly based upon the use of indicafor
databases in the community to monitor trends) so that communities are
equipped to assess and improve their initiatives in a collaborative and
competent fashion; and
► Strategies for institutionalizing and legitimizing essential community
programs, policies, and initiatives.
• Mandatory training of afcohoi venders and servers regarding the sale of alcohot
- to underage persons, and a substantia! increase in the consistency and severity
_ of penalties for those who do no comply with the training.
• Core educational requirements forjuvenile courtjudges and prosecutors on
enforcement issues.
• The provision of technical assistance and funding for each state to develop
substance abuse Internet referral systems for agencies and citizens seeking
treatment �esources and other information.
• Training for judges (focal, state, federal, and tribal) on effective intervention
strategies.
• Advocacy training for youth.
• Youth/adult partnership training.
Victim /ssues
Participants recommended that OJP support and promote:
The identification and engagement of youth victims in advocacy and healing;
The development of programs to assist communities (especially minority
communities) in collecfively dealing with and addressing their experiences of
historical trauma and its impact on their alcohol-related problems;
The development of restorative justice programs in youth/teen/peer courts;
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• Mandatory training on victim's issues for juvenile courf judges, prosecufors,
public defenders, and probation officers at the local, state, and federal leveis;
and in tribal communities;
• The development of a strategyfo address the impact of the underage use of
alcohol on chitd victimization;
• The use of yictim impact panels in the juvenile justice system; and
• The development of programs to assist children of alcoholics.
Yout6 Involvement
While the work group recommended that youth be substantively included in all
programs, initiatives, and decisions that address the underage use of alcohol and its
negative consequences, they also deve(oped a specific lisf of recommendations
regarding youth involvement.
Participants recommended that OJP support and promote:
Efforts to "reach out" to youtF� who are not currenf(y invo(ved wifh this issue and
encourage them to become engaged; and
Peer based mentoring programs in schools starting in elementary school.
The participants recommended that OJP examine the foftowing innovafions and
promising practices/programs which focus on substantive youth involvement:
Youth empowerment programs which are supported through non-profit
organizations at the local, state, and national levels (i.e. MADD Youth in Action
Program, MADD National Youth Summit, MADD Sfudenf Acfivisf Training,
UNITY, SADD, and PRIDE);
State coalitions organized by the American Medical Association to reduce
underage drinking; and
The United Way's Regional Youth/Adult Substance Abuse Project in Bridgeport,
Connecticut.
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Part V: Community-Based Responses and Initiatives
Background of the Discussion
The community-based responses and initiatives group identified current practice 2r,d
knowledge regarding the ways in which communities have focused on aicohol outiets
and availability as � way of addressing crime retated to aicohot abuse.
In contrast with some initiatives related to alcohol abuse and crime which focus upon
prevention, treatment, and rehabilitation approaches directed toward individual users of
alcohol, this group focused upon alcohol abuse in specific geographic areas or
communities. Typically, these initiatives involve the active participation of community
members and collaboration among various stakeholders including merchants, alcohol
beverage controt (ABC) regulatory bodies, and law enforcement. They may also use
mapping techniques to identify the location of alcohol outlets in relation to the
incidence and prevalence of certain types of crime as a way of defining alcohol-related
crime probtems.
Current Responses
The experience-based and research-based knowledge represented in the group was
extensive. The group's discussions highlighted some ofi this knowledge, and provided
an overview of the process of developing and maintaining a community-based
response or initiative to address alcohol-related crime.
The members of the group examined and reviewed the problems and issues in the
communities with which they were familiar that led to the creation of organized
community efforts to address alcohol abuse and crime. These included alarming
numbers of increasingly violent crimes, public drunkenness, extremely high rates of
protective custody related to public drunkenness, high rates of alcohol outlets per
capita, sales of alcohol fo minors and intoxicated persons, frequent instances of driving
under the influence, a lack of community and police cooperation, a lack of an ability to
control the issuance of alcohol beverage distribution permits, cultural discrimination, a
lack of treatment programs (particularly for women and adolescents), and widespread
unemployment.
There was some discussion regarding the extent to which problems and the solutions
to them vary across communities. Some members of the group felt that the problems—
especially related to alcohol distribution—were quite similar from community to
community, and that the models for successful intervention were well-documented and
well-known. Other members of the group felt that the problems were quite different
from community to community and that there were different solutions appropriate to
those different communities—probably with some common elements.
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There did seem to be agreement, however, that there is a common "process° across
communities that couid be emulated in a wide range of situations and settings. This
process includes bringing key stakeholders to the tabie to coliaborate on problem
definition and the development of solutions; the use of the alcohol beverage control
(ABC) regulatory mechanism as a crime prevention tool; the use of data—particularly
mapping of alcohol outlets and crime—as a powerful tool in defining problems and
solutions; and ways.of ensuring substantive community involvement. There also
seemed to be consensus in the group that the foilowing stakeholders should atways be
included in the development process of any community-based Yesponse or initiative:
law enforcement; alcoholic beverage control agencies; hospitality industry members;
afcohol producers, whotesalers, and retailers; neighborhood representatives; tocal
elected officiafs from all affected jurisdictions; crime analysts; and researchers.
Some of fhe specific responses and toois that the communities represented in the
group developed as parts of their overall solutions include: the closing of selected
alcohol outlets on Sundays, the strict enforcement of alcoholic beverage control
regu(ations, sobriety cF�eckpoinfs, vicfim impacf panefs, community policing, tinking the
efForts of police and state alcohol beverage control agencies, the closing of drive-up
alcohol outlets, and an increase in alcohol excise taxes.
There is exfensive documentation of these responses in the literature, including the
evaluations of community prevention trials funded by the National Institute on Alcohol
Abuse and Alcoholism and in the efforts of the ParEnership for Responsibte Hospifalify.
The NAPRH is a voluntary alliance of trade and professional associations, government
agencies, and related organizations developing safe communities and healthy
businesses through the promotion of responsible hospitafity princip(es and pracfices.
Members are unifed by the common goa�s of providing information, sharing resources,
and serving as models for states and local communities creating similar alliances.
Targets for Change
When asked to summarize the major issues that they were addressing, the members of
the group identifed the following:
The reduction of alcohof-related crime at the community level is an achievable
goal;
Communities should belmust be empowered to act to reduce alcohol-related
crime, particularly with respect to the reguiation of alcohol outlets and
advertising; and
Communities need information about what works.
While the group agreed that there is a good deal of experience and knowledge to build
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upon in this area, they identified several issues and problems that their
recommendations would address. These inciude:
• The need to document, evaluate, and research current community-based efforts
so that other communities can build upon what has already been leamed;
• • The need to institutionalize fhe innovations that have emerged in communities
working on these issues; and
• The need to change community norms fo reinforce prevention efForts at the
. community level.
- Recommendations
" The group developed a set of recommendations that reflect participants' judgements
-- about actions that the Office of Justice Programs might take to further the goal of
- substantive community involvement in addressing crime that is related to alcohoi
- abuse. The recommendations feli into severaf areas:
• Advice about "What Works;"
• Program Initiatives;
• Research, Evaluation, and Knowledge Dissemination;
• Training;
• Technicai Assistance;
• Economic Strategies;
• Funding; and
• Leadership.
Advice About "What Works"
As a prelude to the recommendatians sbout the specific actions which OJP might wish
to pursue, the group discussed the lessons that had emerged from their own
experiences, and what they would like to communicate to OJP and other participants at
the symposium. Taken together, this experience provides advice to OJP about how
and why community initiatives can begin to prevent a�cohoi-related crime and its
consequences.
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The group used the specific lessons they have leamed from their own experiences as
the basis for their recommendations in this section.
• Stafe (and (ocal) a(coho(ic beverage confrot agencies can be seen and used as
insfcuments for crime prevention,
• Partnerships across organizational lines at all levels—local, state, nationai and in
Indian Country—are important to all effective efforts.
• At the comrriunity level, residents, law enforcement, alcoholic beverage control
enforcement, local retailers, members of the hospitality industry, and others must
work together to define problems and develop solutions.
• Community-based efforts that are culturally and gender sensitive and competent
are esse�tial.
• Community-based efforts that allow communities to assess their own individual
needs and to create plans to address those needs are essential.
• The alcohol industry—manufacturers, wholesalers, and retailers—should be
encouraged fo be part of fhe diatogue on this issue and to be part of efforts to
address the problem.
• The use of crime mapping technology can be helpful to alcoholic beverage
control agencies where licensing commissions are willing to limit the number and
size of alcohol outlets.
• The practical experiences offered by this work group are very valuable. The
initiatives and responses about which they are familiar are represenfative of
some of fhe best so(utions that exist for an array of alcoho(-related crime
problems. The development, implementation, and evaluation of new community
responses and initiatives must be based upon model programs and new
research.
Program Inifiatives
A large number of recommendations offered to OJP by this group relate to specific
program initiatives which OJP might support through its funding, program design, and
knowledge dissemination activities.
Zhe participants felt that OJP should under take community-based initiatives that
empower local communities to focus on alcohol availability, advertising, and
driving under the influence of alcohol. These initiatives must be sensitive to
issues of culture and gender, and should be based upon research and science.
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_ The participants emphasized that all initiatives should include multiple
stakeholders (i.e., community residents, law enforcement, alcohol beverage
-= control regulatory bodies, retailers, researchers, etc.).
• One way to view community initiatives in this area is as attempts fo change the
- culture of communities regarding alcohol use. 8ecause such change takes
- place gradually, it is not always possible for OJP-funded initiatives to be
planned, developed, implemented, and evaluated during a single fiederal funding
- cycle. The participants encouraged OJP to consider ways in which it might
� support change over time, perhaps by sequentiat funding of the phases of such
an effort to allow 4or pianning, community education, implementation, and
evaluation.
• State legisiatures and alcohol beverage controi regulatory bodies should be
- encouraged to support model programs and empower communities to more
-� effectively regulate aicohoi sales, advertising, and availability.
-- • OJP should undertake such an initiative(s) in Indian Country that provide for
tribal involvement and is designed to competentiy address the culturai
dimensions of alcohol abuse in Indian Country.
• More rehabii'itation resources shouid be avaifabie for communities.
• Fund longer term, comprehensive treatment services that are proven by
research to be effective.
• Place initiatives firmly in the contexts that this group highlighted—poverty,
cultural discrimination, and racism.
• Fund local communities in order to address the possible over-concentration of
alcohol outlets in high crime areas.
- �. Communities shouid focus upon offering alternatives to alcohol use that would
meet community needs as aicohoi use and related crime decrease (i.e., sports
_ programs for young people, respite care for parents, etc.).
• Conduot a community-based initiative within the context of a mu4ti-site urban
neighborhood demonsfration/evaluation pro}ect.
• Characteristics of an effort to develop and increase the effectiveness of
community-based initiatives include:
Weaving research on current community programs into ongoing, related,
and new initiatives in communities;
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► Allowing a one year to 18 month planning period to invoive stakeholders;
► Identifying high risk areas in the United States through a review of the
incidence and prevalence of alcohol-related crimes;
► Identifying existing community coalitions in those high risk areas;
► Supporting the development of commu�ity coalitions where none exist
and fF�eir continuation where they do exist; and
► Supporting regional forums on a(cohol and crime on an annual basis.
Training
The group made severat recommendations regarding OJP's support of training efforts.
Train interested court officials on options for promoting effective community
programs.
Train interested courticommunity officials to increase community awareness of
alcohol-related crime problems.
Include an emphasis on alcohol issues in the design of all criminal justice
training (i.e., police, corrections, etc.) sponsored by OJP.
Provide fraining and direction fo law enforcement wit(� the goal of effectively
partnering with a(coho(ic beverage contro( agencies on enforcemenf issues.
Technica! Assistance
The group offered two recommendations involving how technical assistance might be
used to further OJP's activities in this area.
_. �._� _.__•_ �__w Prov_ide culturally_sensi#iv_e technical assistance to communities who are working
to reduce alcohol-related crime.
Provide technical assistance to communities who are interested in promoting the
closing of problem liquor outlets (or limit proliferation of outlets) and in banning
(iquor bi(Iboards that might be seen by young people.
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- Part VI: Research, Evaluation, and Knowledge Dissemination
= - Overview
A pervasive theme throughout the symposium and across all working groups was the
need to develop and disseminate knowledge on. the nature of alcohol abuse and crime
� and on effective policy and program responses. The beginning of this part of the report
identifies recurcent, research refated themes from across alf four working groups. The
- remainder of this part highlights specific research needs and topics that arose within
each working group.
Developing Knowledge on "What Works"
Each of the four groups identified as a priority the development of sound evaluation
research on cur�ent interventions to create a more comp(ete understanding of the
approaches and programs which are most effective in addressing alcohol-related crime
__ probiems in diverse cultural settings.
Disseminating Existing Information on "What Works"
:: Each of the four groups asserted that existing research knowledge is not easily
available or accessible to those who develop policy and programs to address these
issues--particularly at the state and locai level. There is a strong desire to understand
� °what works° with respect to domestic violence, offender interventions, underage
aicohoi use, and community initiatives. The four groups recommended that OJP:
Promote and market research about what works and about best practices
through the Internet, the use of video formats, and more extensive publications;
Translate the results of research into "user-friendly" fiormats in addition to their
publication in the research liferature; and
Develop a clearing house specifically on alcoholic beverage control issues.
Collaboration between Researchers and Practitioners
A third area of agreement that emerged across the groups was the need for
researchers and practitioners to form partnerships. As researchers begin to
understand more cleariy the context of interventions, the needs that practitioners have
for information, and the goals of interventions, their research efforts will become more
targeted to practitioner needs and, hopefully, more useful to practitioners. Similarly, as
practitioners communicate more directly with researchers, they wilf be able to provide
better information for research purposes and will benefit from sigorous thinking about
defining p�ogram outcomes.
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All four g�oups recommended that OJP:
Support research and evaluation that inc(udes the collaboration between the
researchers and practitioners as part of its design;
• Support research that specifically involves communities who are implementing
the interventions to be studied or evaluated; and
Collaborate with other federa( agencies who fund research on differenf aspeefs
of alcohol abuse and crime should, themselves, collabarate to develop a better
understanding of this complex problem.
Research within Different Cultural Contexts
All of the groups identified knowledge gaps in their particular areas and recommended
specific areas that need further investigation. Topics varied widely across all four
groups, every one of the groups identified Yhe need for knowledge development about
atcohol-related crime within specific cultural contexts. Gollectively the four groups
strongly conveyed the sense that whatever the limits of our existing knowledge about
alcohol-related crime in the majority culture, they pale in comparison with our lack of
knowledge about afcohol-related crime within Native American, Nafive American, and
Hispanic cuitures, tn order to address these research needs, the four groups
recommended that OJP:
• Conduct ethnographic and qualitative research to understand the variable.
impact which alcohol abuse and crime has in certain cultural contexts;
• Develop better research tools and methods to reach under-represented,
immigrant, and other populations who are not being reached by currenf research
methods;
• Pursue research specifically designed to assess the impact of alcohol policy on
vio(ence in communifies generally, buf especially within communifies in Indian
Country; and
• Develop research programs that examine the relationship of community contexts
(i.e., racism, cultural discrimination, poverty, political and personal
powerlessness) to alcohol-related crimes.
Research Methods
Participants at the symposium articulated a number of recommendations about
research strategy and methods. Members of the working group of effective
interventions for offender populations encouraged:
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Recommendations W the Ofice of Justice Programs
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The use of experimental designs; and
= • The support of long-term studies to measure the impact of treafinent among
offender populations.
Research Recommendations from the Working Group on the Roie of Aicohcf in
Domestic �olence and ifs Implications for Criminal JusEice lnterventions .
Participants emphasized that basic research is needed regarding the complex
relationship between atcohol abuse and domestic violence, as wetl as the impact which
botfi alcohol treatment and bafterers interventions—alone and 'sn combination—have
upon victim safety. The positive impact of treatment on violent crime in generai
appears to be fairly well established through existing research. It is not clear, however,
whether this research is generalizable to intimate violence.
This particular recommendation is critical because of the anecdotal information which
suggests that during the ear{y stages o4 alcohof treatment for domestic violence
offenders the risk of viofence (physicai and non-physicai) and coercion may actually
increase. This has obvious implications for victim safety. '
Yet anothe� dimension of this compfex set of issues, is the degree to which alcohol
treatment for the victims of domestic violence may actually increase their risk of re-
victimization. fVlany chemically dependent victims leave substance abuse treatment in
response to the increased danger or are othervvise unabie to compiy with treatment
demands because of the obstacles constructed by their partners.
Other recommended research topics included:
• The epidemiology of vio{ence against women in al{ forms through the life span;
� Pre-intervention and root problems as a pre-requisite to designing interventions;
• EfFective assessment strategies;
• Domestic viofence and substance abuse deve{opmentai issues re{ating to young
women and teens;
• Differences and similarities between illicit drug use and domestic violence, and
alcohol use and domestic violence;
• The impact of community invoivement in domestic violence and alcohol
intervention programs—both through process and outcome evaivations;
• The impact of managed care on services for both domestic violence and alcohoi
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abuse; and
Prevention oriented research on the inter-generational nature of domestic
violence and aicohol.
Research Recommendations from the Working Group on Effecfive Offender
Interventions
Perhaps the most aignificant outcome of the discussion on offender interventions was a
recognition of a lack of consensus about what constitutes acceptable treatment
standards for this populafion. Specific recommendations for research topics which the
group felt should be pursued in this area are:
• Scientifically-based assessment tools for alcohol abuse screening, risk
� assessment related to alcohol abuse, and diagnosis;
• Effective treafinent and inferventions, botfi short and long term, for drunk drivers;
• The effects of combining treatment and sanctions when intervening with
offenders; and
• Alcoho( abuse and crime in proportion to its importance as a drug of abuse—
which is significant, and greater than many drugs of abuse which we research
extensively.
l2esearch Recommendations from the Working Group on the Underage Use of
Alcohol
The participants i� this group asserted that OJP should support and promote research
on:
• The impacts of ail policies and initiatives developed and implemented at the
stafe or (ocal level fo address fhe underage use of alcohol and its negative
consequences (in the form of empirical evaluations);
• The use of the empirical evaluations to inform policy development;
• The effects of alcohol advertising on underage persons;
• Topics in both basic and applied studies over both the short and long term;
• The relationship between underage illicit drug use and the underage use of
alcohoF,
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'= • The prevalence of alcohol-related victimization among youth;
• The determinants (including psychiatric comorbidity) ot drinking pattems among
youth; .
• The effectiveness of alt initiatives and policies on minorify communities before
broad implementation efforfs occur,
• How alcohol problems lead to and develop from other sociat and psychoiogicai
probfems in underage persons;
- • The forms of communication that influence the way that underage persons who
use alcohol act; and
• Alcohol as a cause and correlate of delinquency.
Research Recommendations from the Working Group on Community-Based
: _- Responses aod lnitiatives
The participants in this group agreed that research and evaluation on alcohol abuse
_ and crime should be vigorously pursued by the Office of Justice Programs. 7he group
encouraged OJP to support and promote research which:
• �ocuses on the eva{uation of initiatives that involve community-based,
collaborative approaches which link alcoholic beverage control agencies, law
enforcement, community and neighborhood representatives, merchants, the
-- hospitality industry, and others in crime prevention efforts;
• Identifies patterns of drinking that are most closely associated with crime and
then work to effectively address that 1ink;
• Focuses on communities that have already demonstrated some promise and that
are being funded by OJP agencies;
• Focuses on the evaluation of initiatives in communities who have undertaken
aicohol-refated crime reduction strategies on their own, rather than ones created
by outside intervention; and
• Focuses on cross-site evaluations of communities and on outcomes where
possible.
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Appendix 1
NAT/ONAL SYMPOS/UM ON
ALCOHOL ABUSE AND CR/ME
Convened by fhe
Office of Justice Programs
U.S. Department of Justice
Hyatf Regency Washington on Capifol Hill
April5-7, 1998
SYMPOS(UM AGENDA
Sunday, April 5, 1998
3:00 p. m. - 7:30 p. m.
Registration
Ticonderoga WaII
4:00 p.m. - 4:15 p.m. Welcome and Opening
Yorktown
Assistant Attomey General Laurie Robinson
4:15 p.m. - 5:15 p.m. Plenary Session l: Sefting the Framework for Discussion
Yorktown
Panel Moderator: Shay Bilchik, Administrator, O�ce of
Juvenile Justice and Delinquency
Prevention, O�ce of Justice Programs,
U.S. Department of Justice
Speakers:
♦ Enoch Gordis, M.D., Director,
National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and
Alcoholism, Bio/ogical/Psychosocial
Perspective
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♦ Robin G. W. Room, Ph.D., Vice
President, Addiction Research
Foundation, Ontario, Canada, Cultural
and Anthropological Perspective
♦ Susan Cameron, Ph.D., College.of
Education, University of New Mexico,
American lndian Perspective
5:15 p.m. - 5:45 p.m. Interactive Discussion with Panelists
� Yorktown
5:45 p.m. - 6:15 p.m. Working Groups; Introductions and Expectations
Yorktown
Symposium Moderator: Honorable Joanne Smith, Ramsey
County Court, St. Paul, Minnesota
6:15 p.m. - 7:30 p.m.
Reception
Congressiona/ A
Monday, April 6, 1998
7:00 a.m. - 6:00 p.m.
8:00 a.m. - 8:30 a.m.
Registration
Trconderoga Wa/l
Continental Breakfast
Yorkfown
8:30 a.m. - 8:35 a.m. Call to Order
Review of Symposium Themes
Yorktown
Symposium Moderator: Honorable Joanne Smith
8:35 a.m. - 9:30 a.m. Plenary Session II: ldentifying the lssues—Crime and Alcohol
Abuse
Yorktown
Panel Moderator: Jeremy Travis, Director, National
Institute of Justice, O�ce of Justice
Programs, U.S. Department of Justice
Speakers:
♦ Andrew McGuire, Executive Director,
� The Trauma Foundation and Pacific
Center for Violence Prevention, Review
of Prevenfion Issues and Initiatives
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9:30 a.m. - 9:55 a.m.
9:55 a.m. -10:00 a.m.
♦ Brenda Mitter, Ph.D. Acting Director
Research lnstitute on Addictions,
Impact on �ctims, Domestic Violence
Perspective
♦ Robert Nash Parker, Ph.D., Director,
Robert Presley Center for Crime and
Justice Studies, University of Califomia,
Review of What We Know About the
Relationship Between Crime and
Alcohol Abuse.
Interactive Discussion with Panelists
Yorktown
Introduction to Working Groups
Yorkfown
Symposium Moderator: Honorab)e Joanne Smith
■ The Role of Alcohol in Domestic Violence and /ts
Implicafions for Criminal Justice lnterventions
Chair: Katia Garrett, Attorney Advisor, Violence
Against Women Grants O�ce, Office of Justice
Programs, U.S. Department of Justice
■ Effective Interventions for Offender Populations
Chair: Stephen Amos, Deputy Director, Corrections
Program O�ce, Office of Justice Programs, U.S.
Department of Justice
■ Communify Based Responses and Initiatives
Chair: Thomas Feucht, Direcfor, Crime Control
Division, Nationa! Institute of Justice, Office of Justice
Programs, U.S. Department of Justice
The Underage Use ofA/coho/
Chair: Gina Wood, Director, Concentration of
Federal Efforts Program, Office of Juvenile Justice
and Delinquency Prevention, O�ce of Justice
Programs, U.S. Department of Justice
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10:00 a.m. -10:15 a.m.
10:15 a.m. -12:30 p.m.
12:30 p.m. -12:45 p.m.
12:45 p.m. - 3:00 p.m.
1:15 p.m. - 1:25 p.m.
Break
Refreshments served in the Hal! of Baft/es
Working Groups: Defning Problems and Issues
The Working Group on The Ro% of Alcoho! in Domestic
�o%nce and Its /mplications for Criminai Justice
/nterventions wiil meet in the Columbia Foyer.
The Wodcing Group on Efifecfive /nterventions for
OffenderPopu/ations will meet in the Regency Foyer.
The Working Group on Communify Based Responses
and /nitiatives will meet in Bunker Hill.
The Working Group on The Underage Use ofA(coho/will
meet in Columbia C.
Break
Lunch and Ptenary Session llt: Current Criminal Justice
Responses
Yorkfown
Associate Attorney General Raymond Fisher will provide
welcoming remarks.
1:25 p.m. - 2:45 p.m. Panel Moderator: Nancy Gist, Director, Bureau of Justice
Assistance, Office of Justice Programs,
United States Department of Justice
Speakers:
♦ Leo Nayden, Executive Director,
Corrections Options Programs, TASC,
Inc., lnterventions for Offenders within
the Correctionai Sysfem
♦ Harold Hotder, Ph.D., Director,
Prevention Research Center,
Pacific Institute for Research and
Evafuaiion, Prevention and
Infervenfion in the Community
♦ Honorable J. Michael Kavanaugh,
Albuquerque Metropolitan Court, Court
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Interventions with DWI Offenders
♦ David J. Mactas, Vice President,
Hazeiden Recovery Services of New
York, Alcohol and Substance Abuse
Treatment Overview of Practice and
Effecfiveness
A
2:45 p.m. - 3:00 p.m.
Interactive Discussion with Panel Members
Yorktown
3:00 p.m. -3:15 p.m.
3:15 p.m. - 5:00 p.m.
5:00 p.m. - 5:15 p.m.
Break
Refreshments served in the Hall of Battles
Working Groups: Current Responses and their
Effectiveness
The Working Group on The Ro/e of Alcohol in Domestic
Violence and lts lmplications for Criminal Justice
lnterventions will meet in the Columbia Foyer.
The Working Group on Etfecfive lnferventions for
OffenderPopulations will meet in the Regency Foyer.
7he Working Group on Community Based Responses
and Initiatives will meet in Bunker Hill.
The Working Group on The Urtderage Use ofA/cohol will
meet in Columbia C.
Break
5:15 p.m. - 6:00 p.m. Plenary Feedback
Yorktown
Symposium Moderator: Honorabie Joanne Smith
Tuesday, Apr+17, 9998
7:30 a.m. - 11:00 a.m.
8:00 a.m. - 8:30 a.m.
Registration
Trconderoga Wall
Continental Breakfast
Capitol Room Wa/l
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8:30 a.m. - 9:00 a.m. Ptenary Session IV: Charge to Working Graups-
Developmenf of Recommendations
Capito! Room
Symposium Moderator. Honorable Joanne Smith
9:00 a.m. -10:55 a.m. Working Groups: Development of Recommendations
(Please note that some locations for the working groups are
different on Tuesday than they were on Monday.)
The Working Group on The Ro% of Afcohol in Domesfic
�o%nce and /ts /mp/ications for Crimina/ Justice
lnterventions will meet in Congressional A.
The Working Group on Effective /nterventions for
OffenderPopu/ationswill meet in Concord.
The Working Group on Community Based Responses
and /nitiatives wilt meet in Bunker Hill.
The Working Group on The Underage Use ofA/cohol will
meet in Lexingfon.
11:00 a.m. -1:00 p.m. Registration
Capitol Room Wa/l
11:00 a.m. -1:00 p.m. Plenary Session V: Report ofWorking Groups and Close
. , Capitol Room
,. Symposium Moderator: Honorable Joanne Smith
% At�omey General Janet Reno will attend a portion of fhe
, closing Plenary session to hear the Working Groups'
preliminary recommendations.
Karol Kumpfer, Director, Center for Substance Abuse
Prevention will provide preliminary comments on the
recommendations.
Assistant Attomey General Laurie Robinson will close
the Symposium.
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Appendix 2
NATIONAL SYMPOSIUM ON
ALCOHOL ABUSE AND CRIME
Convened by the
Office of Justice Programs
U.S. Department of Justice
Hyatt Regency Washington on Capitol Hil1
April5-7, 1998
PARTICIPANT LIST
Leslie Acoca
Director
Women and Girls Institute
National Council Crime
and Delinquency
685 MarKet Street, Suite 620
San Francisco, CA 94105
Phone: (415) 896-6223
Fax: (415) 896-5109
Track: The Role of Alcohol in
Domestic Violence and its
Impffcations for Crimina{ dustice
Interventions
Monica Alexander
Crime Analyst
Charlotte-Mecklenburg
Police Department
601 E. Trade Street
Charlotte, NC 28202
Phone: (704) 336-8783
Fax: (704) 336-7799
Email: pdmla@mail.charmeck.nc.us
Track: Community Based
Responses and Initiatives
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Stephen Amos -
Deputy Director
Corrections Program Office
Office of Justice Programs
810 7fh Street, IVW
Washington, DC 20531
Phone: (202) 616-5970
Fax: (202) 307-2994
Track: Effecfive fnterventions for
Offender Populations
Karen Arfichoker
Executive Director
Sacred Circle
- - National Resourse Center
~ 722 St. Joseph Sfreet
= Rapid City, SD 57701
-� Phone: (605) 341-2050
Fax: (605j 341-2472
= Track: The Role of Alcohol in
-. Domestic Violence and its
Implications for Criminal Justice
Interventions
David Atkins
Heaffh Care Adminstrator
Indian Health Service
5300 Homestead Rd NE
Albuquerque, NM 87i 10
Phone: (505) 248-4444
Fax: (505) 248-4129
Email: datkins@smtp.his.gov
Track: Effecfive Inferventions for
Offender Populations
Judith Audet
Citizen Volunteer
8707 Sudbury Place
Alexandria, VA 22309
Phone: (703} 360-6079
Fax: (202) 514-7805
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Gene Bames
District Administrator
Alcoholic Beverage Control
9350 Front Street, Room 5056
San Diego, CA 921Q1
Phone: (619) 525-4603
Fax: (619) 231-1171
Track: Community Based
Responses and Initiatives
Marlene Beckman
Special Counsel to the Assistant
Affomey General
Office of Justice Programs
U.S. Department of Justice
810 7th Street, NW
Washington, DC 20531
Phone: (202) 616-3562
Fax: (202) 514-7805
Shay Bilchik �
Administrator
Office af Juvenile Justice and
Delinquency Prevention
U.S. Department of Justice
810 7th Street, NW
Washington, DC 20531
Phone: (202) 307-5911
Fax: (202) 307-2093
Patricia Bland
Trainer
Providence Health System/New
Beginnings
600 University #1200
Seattle, WA 98101
Phone: (206) 320-8174
Fax: (206) 320-3001
Email: PBLAND@PMCPROXY.ORG
Track: The Role of Alcohol in
Domestic �olence and ifs
Implications for Criminal Justice
Interventions
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Anekia 8oatwright
1821 Dexter Street
Savannah, GA 31401
Phone: (803)777-0695
Fax: (803) 777-0677
Track: URderage Use of Alcohol
(van BoweKaty,
Criminal investigafor
Sureau of indian Affairs
Office of Law Enforcement Services
PO Box 66
Albuquerque, NM 87103
Phone: (505) 248-7937
Fax: (505) 248-7095
Track: Underage Use of Alcohol
Noel Brennan
Deputy Assisfant Atfomey General
Office of Justice Programs
U.S. Department of Justice
810 7"' Street, NW
Washington, DC 20531
Phone: (202) 307-5933
Fax: (202) 594-7805
Daniel Brookoff
Associate Director
Medical Education
Methodist Health System
1525 Carr Avenue
Peggy B. Burke
Senior Associate
Center for Effective Public Policy
8403 Colesviile Road, Suite 720
Silver Spring, MD 20910
Phone: (301) 589-9383
Fax: (301) 589-3505
Track Community Based
Responses and Initiatives
William Butynski
Director of Policy
Substance Abuse Prevention and
Policy Center
9508 Biltmore Drive
Silver Spring, MD 20901
Phone: (301) 588-0128
Fax: (301) 587-7752
Track: Underage Use of Alcohol
Susan Cameron
University of New Mexico
College of Educat+on
Simpson tiall #119
Albuquerque, NM 87131
Phane: (505) 277-4535
Fax: (5d5) 277-8361
Track: Community Based
Responses and Initiatives
Dale Campbell
Memphis, TN 38104 Director
Phone: (901) 726-8785 Native American Programs
Fax: (901) 726-8254 DISMAS Charities, Inc.
Track: The Role of Alcohol in P.O. Box 85033
Domestic Violence and its Tucson, AZ 85754-5033
Implications for Criminai Justice Phone: (520) 546-5897
Interventions Fax: (520) 546-5897
Track: Effective tnteroentions for
, Offender Populations
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Sharon Cantelon
Program Manager
Office of Juvenile Justice and
Delinquency Prevention
Offce of Justice Programs
U.S: Department of Justice
810 7th Street, NW
Washington, DC 20531
Phone: (202) 616-3658
Fax: (202) 514-6382
Email: sharie@ojp.usdoj.gov
Track: Underage Use of Alcohol
-- Constance Carley
: Regional Coordinator
Oregon Commission on Children
- � and Families
� 530 Center Street NE Suite 300
Salem, OR 97310
Phone: (503) 373-1570
Fax: (503) 378-8395
Track: Underage Use of Alcohol
Madeline Carter
Senior Associate
Center for Effective Public Policy
8403 Co(esville Road, Suite 720
Silver Spring, MD 20910
Phone: (30f ) 589-9383
Fax: (301) 589-3505
Track: Underage Use of Alcohol
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Nita Carter
Technical Assistance Manager
National Resource Center on
Dorpestic Abuse
6400 Flank Drive, Suite 1300
Harrisburg, PA 17112
Phone: (800) 537-2238
Fax: (717) 545-9456
Track: The Role of Alcohol in
Domestic Violence and its
Implications for Criminal Justice
Interventions
Paul Casagrande
Program Manager
Executive Office for Weed and Seed
U.S. Department of Justice
810 7"' Street, NW, 6�' Floor
Washington, DC 20531
Phone: (202) 616-9354
Fax: (202) 616-1159
Track: Underage Use of Alcohol
Jan Chaiken
Director
Bureau of Justice Statistics
U.S. Department of Justice
810 7"' Street, NW, 2" Floor
Washington, DC 20009
Phone: (202) 307-0765
Fax: (202) 307-5846
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Nancy Chase
Public Heaith Advisor
Center for Substance Abuse
Prevention
5600 Fishers Lane, Suite 800,
Rockwall II
Rockvilte, MD 20857
Phone: (301) 443-9938
Fax: (301) 443-5592
Email: nchase@samhsa.gov
Track: Community Based
Responses and Initiatives
Andrew Chishom
ProfessorlDirector
Southem Region Vo{ence and
Substance Abuse Prevention Center
Institute of Public Affairs, USC
Columbia, SC 29208
Phone: (803) 777-0695
Fax: (803) 777-0677
Track: Underage Use of Alcohol
Patrick Coleman
Resident Praetitionec
Bureau of Justice Assistance
O�ce of Justice Programs
U.S. Deparfinent of Justice
810 7fh Street, NW
Washington, DC 20531
Phone: (202) 616-0313
Fax: (202) 305-2542
Email: colemanp@ojp.usdoj.gov
Janna Cooper
Program Manager
National Association of Drug
Court Professionals
901 N. Pitt Street, 3uite 370
Alexandria, VA 22314
Phone: (703) 706-0576
Fax: (703) 706-0577
Track: Community Based
Responses and Initiatives
James Copple
Director
Coalition, State, and Field Services
National Crime Prevention Council
1700 K Street, NW
Washington, DC 20006
Phone: (202) 466-6272
Fax: (202) 296-1356
Email: jcopple@ncpc.org
Track: Underage Use of Alcohol
Cabetl Cropper
Executive Director
National Criminal Justice
Association
444 North Capitol Street, NW
Washington, DC 20001
Phone: (202) 624-1440
Fax: (202) 508-3859
Track: Effective Interventions for
Offender Populations
Maureen Da(bec
Director of Research
The Century Council
1201 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW
Washington, DC 20004
Phone: (202) 661-4701
Fax: (202) 661-4711
Email: mdalbec@centurycouncil.org
Track: Community Based
Responses and Initiatives
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Mike Dalich
Chief of Staff
O�ce of Justice Programs
U.S. Department of Justice
810 7"' Street, NW
Washington, DC 20531
Phone: 202-307-5933
Fax: 202-514-Z805
Johnnetta Davis
Deputy Director
American Medical Association
515 North Sfafe Sfreef, 8th Floor
Chicago, IL 60610
Phone: (312) 464-4168
Fax: (312) 464-4024
Track: Underage Use of Alcohol
Raymond Daw
Executive Director
NW New Mexico Fighting
Back/Na'nizhoozhi Cenfer, (nc.
2205 East Boyd Drive
Gallup, NM 87309
Phone: (505} 722-2177
Fax: (505) 722-5961
Track: Community Based
Responses and fnifiafives
Herman Diesenhaus
Team Leader
Scientific Analysis Team
Center for Substartce
Abuse Treatment
87Q0 Fishers Lane, Rockwall II,
Rockvilie, MD 20857
Phone: (301) 443-6575
Fax: (30'! ) 480-3144
Track: The Role of Rtcohoi in
Domestic Volence and its
lmplications for Criminal Justice
Interventions
Bonnie Duran
Assistant Professor
University of New Mexico
2400 Tucker NE #947
Albuquerque, NM 87131
Phone: (505) 272-4194
Fax: (505) 272-4494
Track: The Role of Alcohol in
Domestic Violence and its
!mplications for Criminal Justice
(nterventions
Robert Denniston
Director
- Health and Human Services
� Secretary's Initiative on Youth
Substance Abuse Prevenfion
SAMHSA
5600 Fishers Lane, Rockwall II,
Room 900
Rockvi!!e, MD 20857
Phone: (301) 443-2188
Fax: (301) 443-7072
Email: rdennist@samhsa.gov
Eduardo Duran
Directar
Behavioral Health Services
First Nation's Community
Heaith Source
4100 Silver S.E.
Albuquerque, NM 87908
Phone: (505) 262-2489
Fax:(505)262-0781
Track: The Role of Alcoho! in
Domestic Violence and its
Implications for Criminal Justice
Interventions
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Hedy Emery
Healthy Nafions
Commun'sty Organizer
Northwest New Mexico Fighting
Back, inc.- Heaifhy Nations
PO Box 5781 �
Farmington, NM 87499
Phone: (505) 368-7450
Fax: (505) 368-5582
Track: Community Based
Responses and Initiatives
Patricia Fauone
Assisfant Professor
Kansas University Medical Center
390't Rainbow Stvd
Kansas City, KS 66160-7502
Phone: (913} 588-1656
Fax: (913) 588-1660
Track: The Role of Alcohol in
Domestic Violence and its
lmplications for Criminal Justice
Interventions
Thomas Feucht
Director
Crime Control and Prevention
Division
Nafional Institute of Justice
U.S. Department of dusfice
810 7th Street, NW
Washington, DC 20531
Phone: (202) 307-2949
Fax: (202) 305-8622
Emai�: feucht@ojp.usdoj.gov
Track: Community Based
Responses and Initiatives
t
Nikki Finch
National SADD Student of the Year
Students Against
Destructive Decisions
PO Box 60022
Taitahassee, FL 32313
Phone: (850) 853-2744
Fvc (850) 561-1405
EmaiL
Faith N_Jesus@Rocketmaif.com
Track: Underage Use of Alcohoi
Raymond Fisher
Associate Attomey General
U.S. Department of Justice
950 PennsylVania Avenue, NW,
Room 5214
Washington, DC 20531-0001
Phone: (202) 514-9500
Fax: (202) 514-0238
Nora Fitzgerald
Research Analyst
ADAM Program
Nationaf tnstitufe of Justice
U.S. Departmenf of Justice
810 7th Street, NW
Washington, DC 20531
Phone: (202) 305-1547
Fax: (202) 616-0275
Email: fitzgera@ojp.usdoj.gov
Track: Community Based
Responses and 4nitiatives
Lenny Foster
Project Director
Navajo Nation Corrections Project
PO Drawer 709
Window Rock, AZ 86515
Phone: (520) 571-6234
Fax (520) 871-2266
Track: Ef�ective Interventions for
Offender Population
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Katia Garrett
Attomey Advisor
�otenc.� Against Women
Grants Office
Office of Justice Programs
U.S. Department of Justice
810 7th Street, NW, 6th Fioor
Washington, DC 20531
Phone: (202) 616-3580
Fax: (202) 305-2589
Email: garrettk@ojp.usdoj.gov
Track: The Role of Atcohol in
Domestic Violence and its
Implications for Criminal Justice
Interventions
Edward Gondolf
Associate Director of Research
Mid-Atlantic Addiction Training
Insfifufe
245 Hamill Road
Indiana, PA 95705
Phone: (724) 357-4749
Fax: (724} 357-3944
Track: The Role of Alcohol in
Domestic Violence and its
Implications for Criminal Justice
Interventions
Enoch Gordis
Director
�
Matthew Gissen
President
The Village - Partners in Recovery
3180 Biscayne Blvd
_., Miami, FL 33137
Phone: (305) 573-3784
_ Fax: (305) 576-1348
Track: Effective Interventions for
Offender Populafions
Nancy Gist
Director
Bureau of Justice Assistance
Office of Justice Programs
U.S. Department of Justice
810 7th Street, NW
Washington, DC 20531
Phone: (202) 616-6500
National Institute on Alcohol Abuse
and Alcoholism
6000 Executive Blvd. Room 400
Rockville, MD 20892
Phone: (301) 443-3885
Fax: (301) 443-7043
J. Phillip Gossage
Senior Research Scientist
University of New Mexico/ CASAA
23650 Alamo SE
Albuquerque, NM 87106
Phone: (505) 768-0104
Fax: (505) 768-09 9 3
Email: jgossage@unm.edu
Track: Community Based
Responses and lnitiatives
Marcus Grant
President
International Center for Alcohol
Policies
1519 New Hampshire Avenue, NW
Washington, DC 20036
Phone: (202) 986-1159
Fax: (202) 986-2080
Track: Community Based
Responses and Inifiatives
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John Grebert
Chief of Pa[ice
Colonie Police Department
312 Wolf Road
Latham, NY 12110
Phone: (518) 783-2800
Fax: (518} 786-7326
Track: Underage Use of Alcohol
Lawrence Greenfeld
Deputy Director
Bureau of Justice Statistics
U.S. Deparment of Justice
810 7'" Street, NW
Washington, DC 20531
Phone: (202) 61&3281
Fax: (202) 307-5846
Email: larrv(cDoin usdoi nov
John "Jack" Gustafson
Executive Director
National Association of State Alcohol
and Drug Abuse Directors
808 17fh Street, NW Suite 410
Washington, DC 20006
Phone: (202) 293-0090
Fax: (202) 293-1250
Track: Underage Use of Alcohol
George Hacker
Director
Alcohol Policies
Center for Science in the
Public fnterest
1875 Connecticut Avenue, NW,
Suite 30
Washington, DC 2QOQ9-5728
Phone: (202) 332-9110
Fax: (202) 265-4954
Email: ghacker@cspinet.org
Track Underage Use of Alcohol
Lawrence Hauser
Judge
Bridgeport Superior Court
172 Goiden Hiff Street
Bridgeport, CT 06604
Phone: (203) 579-6540
Fax: (2U3} 579-6928
Track: The Ro{e of Alcohol in
Domestic Volence and its
Implications for Criminal Justice
Interventions
Leo Hayden
Executive Director
Corrections Options Programs
TASC
1500 N. Halsted
Chicago, IL 60622
Phone: (312) 573-8370
Fax: (312) 787-9663
Track: Effective Interventions for
Offender Populations
Kerry Healey
Public Policy Consultant
Abt Associates fnc.
10 Curtis Point
Beverly, MA 01915
Phone: (617) 349-2719
�ax: (617) 349-2610
Track: The Role ofi Alcohol in
Domestic Violence and its
lmplications for Criminal Justice
Interventions
Melody Heaps
President
TASC, {nc.
1500 N. Halsted Street
Chicago, IL 60622
Phone: (312) 573-8203
Fax: (312) 787-9663
Track: Effective {nterventions for
OfFender Populations
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Bobby Heard
Director of Programs
Mothers Against Drunk Driving
511 E. John Carpenter Pkwy
Suite 700
Irving, TX 75062
Phone: (214) 744-6230
Fax: (972) 8692207
Track: Underage Use of Aicohol
Norena Henry
Director
American Indian/Alaskan Native
Affairs O�ce
Office of Justice Programs
` U.S. Department of Justice
810 Seventh Street, NW
= Washington, DC 30531
Phone: (202) 6'16-3205
: Fax: (202) 514-7805
- Email: henry@ojp.usdoj.gov
� Track: Underage Use of Alcohol
Bisi Hightower
Program Adminisfrafor
Healthy Start, Inc.
805 Ledlie Street
Pittsburgh, PA 15219
Phone: (412) 247-4009
Fax: (412) 247-0187
Track: The Role of Alcohol in
Domestic Violence and its
Implications for Criminal Justice
Interventions
Ralph Hingson
Professor and Chair
Boston University School of Public
Health
715 Albany Street, TW250
Boston, MA 02118
Phone: (617) 638-5160
Fax: (617) 638-4483
Track: Underage Use of Alcohol
Haroid Holder
Director
Pacific Instifute for Research
and Evaluation
2150 Shatfuck Avenue, Suite 900
Berkeley, CA 94704
Phone: (510) 486-1111
Fax: (510) 644-0594
Track: Community Based
Responses and Initiatives
Cindy Johnson
City Council Member
Lincoln City Council, 555 S. 10th
Lincoln, NE 68508
Phone: (402) 441-7515
Fax: (402) 441-6533
Email: councit@ci.lincoln.ne.us
Track: Community Based
Responses and Initiatives
Claire Johnson
Senior Researcher
National Council on Crime
and Delinquency
1325 G Street, NW, Suite 770
Washington, DC 20005
Phone: (202) 638-0556
Fax: (202) 638-0123
Denise Johnson �
Team Leader
Family and Intimate Violence
Prevention Team
Center for Disease Control
4770 Buford Hwy NE MS K60
Atlanta, GA 30341
Phone: (770) 488-4277
Fax: (770) 488-4349
Track: The Role of Alcohol in
Domestic Violence and its
Implications for Criminal Justice
lnterventions
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PatJohnson
Deputy Director of Medical Research
National Center on Addiction and
Substance Abuse
152 W. 57th Street
New York, NY 10019-3310
Phone: (212) 841-5207
Fax (212)841-5220
Track: Effective Interventions for
Offender Populations
Linda Wolf Jones
Executive Director
Therapeutic Communities of America
1611 Connecticut Avenue, NW,
Suite 46
Washington, DC 20009
Phone: (202) 296-3504
Fax: (202) 518-5475
Track: Effective Interventions for
Offender Populations
Nolan Jones
Director
Human Resources Group
National Governors Association
444 North Capitol Street, NW,
Suite 267
Washington, DC 20001
Phone: (202) 624-5360
Fax: (202) 624-5313
Track: The Role of Alcohol in
Domestic �o{ence and its
Implications for Criminal Justice
Interventions
Girvaud Justice
Community Representative
1512 North McDowell Street
Charlotte, NC 28205
Phone: (704) 376�558
Fax: (704) 376�558
Track: Community Based
Responses and Initiatives
Glenn Karr
Highway Safety Administrator
National Highway Traffic Safety
Administration
400 7"' Street, SW
Washington, DC 20590
Phone: (2d2) 366-0350
Fax: (202) 366 2766
J. Michael Kavanaugh
Chief Judge
Bernalillo County Metropolitan Court
PO Box 133
Albuquerque, NM 87103
Phone: (505) 841-8193
Fax: (505} 841-8192
Track: Effective Interventions for
Offender Populations
Kara King
4539 Robney Drive
Cofumbia, SC 29209
Phone: (803) 777-0695
Fax: (803) 777-0677
Track:_ Underage Use of Alcohoi
Kevin Kfinkerfues
Probation O�cer III
1 st Judicial Disfrict
10745 W. 12th Place
Lakewood, CO 80215
Phone: (303) 271-6393
Fax: (303) 271-6317
Track: Effective Interventions for
Offender Populations
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Mary Koss
Professor of Public Health
University of Arizona
2223 East Speedway Boulevard
Tucson, AZ 85779
Phone: (520) 626-7863
Fax: (520) 318-7226
Track: The Role of Alcohol in
Domestic Violence and its
Implications for Criminal Jusfice
Interventions
Karol Kumpfer
Director
Center for Substance Abuse
Prevention
5600 Fishers Lane, Rockwall fl,
Suite 900
Rockville, MD 20857
Phone: (301) 443-0365
Fax: (301) 443-5447
Sandra Lapham
President
Behavior hiealth Research Center of
the Southwest
_., 4600 "A" Montgomery Blvd. NE,
Albuquerque, NM 87109
" Phone: (505) 830-3099
Fax: (505) 830-3408
Track: Effecfive tntervenfions for
, Offender Populations
Anna Latimer
Executive Director
National Association for Native
American Children of Alcoholics
1402 Third Avenue #1110
Seattle, WA 98101
Phone; (206) 467-7686
Fax: (206) 467-7689
Email: nanacoa(cDnanacor.org
Nancy Owen Lewis
Chief Operating O�cer
Behavioral Heafth Research Cenfer
of the Southwest
4600 "A" Montgomery Blvd NE
Suite 101
Albuquerque, NM 87109
Phone: (505) 830-3099
Fax: (505) 830-3408
Track: Effective Interventions for
Offender Populations
Douglas Lipton
Senior Research Fellow
National Development and Research
Institutes, Inc.
Two World Trade Center, 16th Floor
New York, NY 10048
Phone: (212) 845-4547
Fax: (212) 845-4698
Track: Effective Interventions for
Offender Populations
Patrice Lockhart
Counselor
Colonie Police Department
312 Wolf Road
Latham, NY 12110
Phone: (518) 783-2753
Fax: (518) 786-7326
Track: Underage Use of Alcohol
Laura Ludwig
Deputy Director
Ohio Department of Public Safety
805 Gladden Road
Columbus, OH 43212
Phone: (614) 466-7Q76
Fax: (614) 466-0533
Track: Underage Use of Alcohol
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Rhonda J. Lundborg
Federai Aid Coordinator
Alaska Department ofi Corrections
240 Main Street, Suite 700
Juneau, AK 99801
Phone: (907) 465-4640
Fax: (907) 465-3390
David Mactas
Vice President
Hazelden Recovery Services of
New York
60 East 42nd Street, Suite 1001
New York, NY 10165
Phone: (212) 557�161
Fax: (212) 557-6234
Jay Marshalt
Chief
Comprehensive Programs
Bureau of Justice Assistance
U.S. Department of Justice
810 7th Street, NW
Washington, DG 20531
Phone: (202) 616-3215
Fax: (202) 616-2421
Chris Martin
Deputy Sheriff
Sacramento Sheriff's Department
711 G Street, Room 405
Sacramento, CA 95814
Phone: (916j 874-8401
Fax: (916) 874-5263
Track: Effective Interventions for
Offender Populations
Susan Martin
Health Scientist Administrator
Nationai institute on Afcohol Abuse
and Alcohofism
6000 Executive Bivd
Rockville, MD 20892
Phone: (301) 443-8767
Fax: (301) 443-8774
Email: smartin@willco.niaaa.nih.gov
Track: Underage Use of Alcohol
Joan McCord
Professor
Temple University
623 Broadacres Road
Narberth, PA 19072
Phone: (610) 667�197
Fax: (61 Q) 667-0568
Track: Underage Use of Alcohol
Barbara McCrady
Professor and Clinical Director
Center of Afcohol Studies
Rutgers University
607 Allison Road .
Piscataway, NJ 08854-8001
Phone: (732) 445-0667
Fax: (732) 445-5944
Track: The Role of Alcohof in
Domestic Violence and its
Implications for Criminal Justice
Interventions
Peggy McGarry
Seniot Associate
Certter for Effective Public Po4icy
8403 Colesville Road, Suite 720
Silver Spring, MD 20910
Phone: (301) 589-9383
Fax: (301) 589-3505
Track: The Role of Atcohol in
Domestic Violence and its
lmplications For G�iminal .lustice
Interventions
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Andrew McGuire
Executive Director
Trauma Foundafion
1001 Potrero Avenue, Building 1,
Room 300
- - San Francisco, CA 94110
-- Phone: (445) 821-8209
Fax: (415) 282-2563
- Track: Underage Use of Alcohol
Michael McPhaii
� County and Youth Court Judge
- Forrest County
200 West Pine Street, PO Box 990
Hattiesburg, MS 39403-0190
�� Phone: (601) 545-6075
_ Fax: (601) 545�105
-- Track: Underage Use of Alcohoi
Brenda Miller
Acting Director
Research institute on Addictions
1021 Main Street
Buffalo, NY 14203
Phone: (716) 887-2515
Fax: (716) 887-2252
Track: The Role of Alcohol in
Domestic Violence and its
Implications for Criminal Justice
Interventions
Angela Moore-Parmley
- � National institute of Justice
U.S. Department of Justice
810 7"' Street, NW
` Washington, DC 20531
Phone: (202) 307-0145
Fax: (202) 616-0275
James Mosher
Senior Poticy Advisor
Marin Insfitute
6116 Highway 9, Suite 6A
Felton, CA 95018
Phone: (408) 335-1140
Fax: (408) 335-1141
Track: Underage Use of Alcohol
Femando J, Muniz
Youth Director
Regional Youth/Adult Substance
Abuse Project
75 Washington Avenue
Bridgeport, CT 06604
Phone: (203) 333-3333
Fax: (203) 333-9118
Email: nandomuniz@aol.com
Becki Ney
Senior Associate
Center for Effective Public Policy
32 E. Montgomery Avenue
Hatboro, PA 19040
Phone: (215) 956-2335
Fax: (215) 956-2337
Track: Effective Interventions for
Offender Populations
Robert Nash Parker
Director
Robert Pressley Center for Crime
and Justice Studies
University of California
Riverside, CA 92521
Phone: (909} 757-4604
Fax: (909j 787-7394
Track: Community Based
Responses and Initiatives
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Carolyn Peake
Social Science Anafyst
National {nstitute o4 Justice
U.S. Department of Justice
810 7th Street, NW
Washington, DC 20531
Phone: (202) 616-3234
Fax: (202) 307-6256
Emait: peakec@ojp.usdoj.gov
Albert Antony Pearsall
Chief, West Branch
Bureau of Justice Assistance
U.S. Department of Justice
810 7th Sfreet, NW
Washingfon, DC 20531
Phone: (202) 616-3298
Fax: (202) 305-1367
Emait: �earsatl(rpojn.udoi.aov
Ada Pecos Melton
President
American Indian
Development Associates
2401 12th St, NW
Albuquerque, NM 87104
Phone: (505) 842-1122
Fax: (505) 842-9652
Track: Underage Use of Alcohol
Scott Peterson
Office of Juvenile Justice and
Delinquency Prevention
U.S. Department of Justice
S10 7"' Street, NW, Room 8138
Washington, DC 20531
Phone: (202) 616-2368
Fax: (202) 3Q7-2819
Calvin Red Thunder, Sr.
Correcfional institution Adminstrator
Fort Peck Assiniboine and
Sioux Tribes
Branch of Corrections
PO Box 1027
Poplar, MT 59255
Phone: (406) 768-3406
Fax: {406J 768-344�
Track: Effective interventions for
Offender Populafions
Winifred Reed
Program Manager
National Institute of Justice
810 7"' Street, NW
Washington, DC 20531
Phone: (202) 307-2952
Fax (202) 307-6394
Track: Community Based
Responses and Initiatives
Edward Reina
Chief of Police
Rena-Sparks Indian Colony
1995 East 2nd St�eet
Reno, NV 89502
Phone: (702) 785-8776
Fax: (702) 785-9163
Track: Effective Interventions for
Offender Populatians
Scott Reiner
Substance Abuse Program
Supervisor
Vrginia Department of Juvenile
Justice
PO Box 1110
Richmond, VA 23218-1110
Phone: (804) 371-0720
Fax: (804) 371-0727
Emaif: sreiner@erols.com
Track: Underage Use of Alcohot
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Robert Reynolds
Direcfor
Nationai Center for the
Advancement of Prevention
11'f40 Rockville Pike, Suite 600
Rockvilte, MD 20852 '
Phone: (301) 984-6507
Fax: (301) 984-6559
Track: Communiry Based
Responses and Initiatives
Vernon Roanhorse
District Prosecutor
Navajo Nation Prosecutors Office
Canoncifo/Alamo Office of
the Prosecutor
- PO Sox 3993,
- Canoncito, NM $7026
Phone: (505) 836-2331
-. Fax: (505) 831-9609
: Track: Community Based
Responses and Initiatives
Marilyn Roberts
Director
Drug Cou�ts Program Office
Office of Justice Programs
U.S. Department of Justice
810 7"' Street, NW, 6�' Floor
Washington, DC 20531
Phone: (202} 616-5055
Fax: (202) 514-6452
Track: Effective lnterventions for
Offender Populations
Laurie Robinson
Assistant Attorney General
Office of Justice Programs
U.S. Department of Justice
810 7th Street, NW
Washington, DC 20531
Phone: (202) 307-5933
Fax: (202) 595-6033
Robin G. W. Room
Vice President
Research and Development
Addiction Research Foundation
33 Russefl SVeet
Toro�to, Ontario, M-5-S-2s1
Phone: (416) 595-6055
Fa�c (416j 595-6033
Gerald Rouse
Vice Presidenf
National Councit of Juvenile and
Family Court Judges
County Judge, 5"' Judiciat Disfricf
Seward County Court
PO Box 37
Seward, NE 68434
Phone: (402) 643-3214
Fax: (4Q2) 643-2950
Track: Underage Use of Alcohol
Bob Schurmeier
Deputy Police Chief
Char(otfe-Meck(enburg
Police Department
601 East 7rade Street
Charlotfe, NC 28202
Phone: (704) 336-2345
Fax: (704) 336-5712
Track: Community Based
Responses and Initiatives
Kathy Schwartz
Administrator
Violence Against Women
Grants Office
Office of Justice Programs
U.S. Department of Justice
810 7"' Street, NW. Room 6318
Washingfon, DC 20531
Phane: (202) 307-3595
Fax: (202) 305-2589
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Linda Sanchez
Executive Director
Pceventing Alcohol Related Trauma
in Salinas
21 West Laurel T3rive, Suite 73
Sa{inas, CA 93906
Phone: (408) 442-7761
Fax: (408) 442-7766
Track: Commun+ty Based
ResQonses and (nitiatives
Stephen Schosnthaler
Professor of Sociology and
Criminal 3ustice
Califomia Sfate Univers'sty -
Stanislaus
801 W. Monte Vista
Turlock, CA 95382
Phone: (209) 667-3222
Fax: (209) 664-7067
Track: Effective Interoentions for
Offender Populations
Carol Schroeder
A&DlHtV Supervisor
Oregon Depa�tment of Corrections
Counseling and Treatment Services
2575 Center Street NE
Salem, OR 9731�
Phone: (503) 378-8373
Fax: (5�3) 378-5118
Track: Effective lnterventions for
Offender Populaiions
Harvey Siegal
Professor
Department of Community Health
Director of Subsfance Abuse
{ntervention Program
Wright State Unversity
School of Medicine
Post Office Box 927
Dayton, OH 45401
Phone: (937) 775-2850
Fax: (937) 775-2171
Track: The Role of Aicohol in
Domestic Volence and its
Implications for Criminal Justice
tnterventions
John Simonet
Director of Corrections and
Undersheriff
Denver Sheriff Department
Post Office Box 1108
Denver, CO 80201
Phone: (303) 375-5690
Fax: (303) 375-5500
Track: Effective Interventions for
Offender Populations
Joanne Smith
District Court Judge
Triaf Court - State of Minnesota
15 W. Kellogg Blvd
St. Paul, MN 55102
Phone: (612) 266-9190
Fax: {612) 266-8311
Emal:joanne.smith@courts.state.mn.us
Track: Community Hased
Responses and Initiatives
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__. Arkan Somo
Executive Director
=== San Diego Merchants Associafion
-- 9621 Campo Road, Suife E
Spring Valley, CA 91977
- Phone: (619} 464-8485
-- Fax: (619) 464-9440
._� Track: Communify Based
- Responses and Initiafives
_ Kathryn Stewart
-, Deputy Director
' National Center for the
Advancement of Prevention
11140 Rockville Pike, Suite 600
� Rockvilfe; MD 20852
-- Phone: (301) 984-6509
- Fax: (301) 984-6559
Track: Underage Use of Alcohof
- Rose Strickland
Director
Latino Council on Alcohol and
_ Tobacco and National Capita(
Coalition to Prevent
- Underage Drinking
--- 1015 15"' Street, NW
Washington, DC 20005
Phone: (202) 246-0671
Fax: (202) 216-0672
Email: nccpud@erols.com
= Track: Underage Use of Alcohol
Lisa Swafford
Resident Practitioner
Bureau of Justice Assistance
U.S. Department of Justice
810 7�' Street, NW, 4"' Floor
Washington, DC 20531
Phone: (202) 6163462
Fax: (202) 305-1367
Email: syraffor�oip.usdoi�,4ov
Tom Talbot
Program Assistant
Cenfer for Effeative Public Policy
8403 Colesville Road, Suite 720
Siiver Spring, MD 20910
Phone: (301) 589-9383
�ax: (301) 589-3505
Patrick Tarr
Senior Policy Anatyst
Office of Policy Development
U.S. Department of Justice
950 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW
Washingfon, DC 20531
Phone: (202) 514-3592
Fax: (202} 514-9112
Jeffrey Tauber
President
Nationa( Association of Drug
Court Professionals
901 N. Pift Streef
Atexandria, VA 22314
Phone: (703} 706-0576
Fax: (703) 706-0577
Track: Effective Interventions for
Offender Populations
Linda Teplin
Professor
Norfhwestern University
710 N. Lakeshore #900
Chicago, IL 60611
Phone: (312} 503-3500
Fax: (312} 503-3535
Sue Thau
Washington Representative
PITCH, fnc.
6217 29�' Sfreet, NW
Washington, DC 20015
Phone: (202} 966-4361
Fax: (202) 966-4361
7rack: Underage Use of Alcohol
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Traci Toomey R. Dale Watker
Associate Director Professor and Chair
Alcohol Epidemiology Program Department of Psychiatry
University of Minnesota Oregon Heaith Sciences University
1300 South 2"' Street 318'I SW Sarra Jackson Road
Minneapotis, M�I 55454-1015 Porttand, OR 97201
Phone: (612) 626-9070 Phone: (503) 494-5494
Fax: (612) 624-0315 Fax: (503) 494-6152
Track: Underage Use of Afcohol Track: The Role of Atcohof in
� Domestic Volence and its
Jeremy Travis Implications for Criminal Justice
Director tnterventions
National Institute of Justice
Office of Justice Programs
U.S. Department of Justice
810 7fh Street, IVW
Washington, DC 20531
Phone: (202) 307-2942
Fax: (202} 307-6394
KeNy K Vance
Senior Manager
Center for Effective Pub{ic Policy
8403 Co{esville Road, Suite 720
Silver Spring, MD 20910
Phone: (301 } 589-9383
Fax: (301) 589-35�5
Track: Community Based
Responses and tnitiatives
Chrisfy Visher
Science Advisor to the Dicector
National Institute of Justice
Office of Justice Programs
U.S. Department of dustice
810 7th Street, NW
Washington, DC 20531
Phone: (202) 307-0694
Fax: (202) 307-6394
Deborah Warner
Clinica{ Direefor
Center for New Beginnings
229 Cotfage Stseet, PO Box 9935
littleton, NH 03561-0935
Phone: (603) 444�465
Fax: (603} 444-6233
Track: Effeotive Intervenfions 4or
Offender Populafions
Beves{y Watf Davis _
Executive Directoc
San Antonio Fighting Back of
United Way
2803 East Commerce
San Antonio, TX 78203
Phone: (210) 271-7232
Fax: {210) 271-1087
Katrina Weinig
Senior Counset
Office of Policy Development
U.S. Department of Justice
950 Pennsytvania Avenue, NW
Room 4250
Washington, DC 20530
Phone: (202) 514-7473
Fax: (202) 514-1685
Track: Underage Use of Alcohol
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Beth Weinman
Programs Coodinator
National Drug Abuse
Federa! Bureau of Prisons
320 First StreeE, NW
�"Jashi�gton, DC 20534
Phone: (202) 514-4492
Fax: (202) 616-3220
Emaii: bweinman@bop.gov
Track: Effective Interventions for
Offender Populations
Connie Weisner
Senior Scientist and Adjunct
Professor
School of Public Health
Univesity of California, Berkeley
2000 Hearst Avenue Suite 300
Berkeley, CA 94709
Phone: (510) 450-2156
Fax: (510) 642-7175
Track: The Role of A►cohol in
Domestic Violence and its
tmplications for Criminal Justice
Interventions
William Wieczorek
Director and Research Professor
SUNY College at Buffalo
Center for Health and
Social Research
'l300 Elmwood Avenue
Buffalo, NY 14222
Phone: (716) 878-6137
Fax: (716) 878-4009
Track: Effective Interventions for
Offender Populations
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Maggie Witmore
Senior Coordinator Family Services
SAMHSA/HHS
5600 Fishers Lane Room 17-89
Rockville, MD 20857
Phone: (301} 443-8216
Fax: (301) 443-3437
Email: mwilmore.samsha.gov
Laura Winte�eld
Nationat Instifute of Jusfice
U.S. Department of Justice
810 7"' Street NW
Washirtgton, DC 20039
Phone: (202) 616-3482
Fax: (202j 307-3694
Gina Wood
Director
Concentration of Federal
Efforts Program
Office of Juvenile Justice and
Delinquency Prevention
U.S. Department of Justice
810 7th Street, NW
Washington, DC 20531
Phone: (202) 616-9159
Fax: (202) 307-2093
Track: Underage lJse of Alcohol
Wilbur Woodis
Management Analyst
Indian Health Service
5300 Homestead Road NE
Albuquerque, NM 87110
Phone: (505) 248-4121
Fax: (505) 248-4129
Track: Community Based
Responses and tnitiatives
Page 2-20
Jim Wright
Youth Program Manager
National Highway Transportation
Safety Administration
400 7th Street, SW Room 5118
Washington, DC 20590
Phone: (202) 366-2724
Fax: (202) 366-2766
Emaii: jwright@nhfsa.dot.gov
Track: Underage Use of Aicohol
Theresa Zubretsky
Director
Human Services Poticy and Planning
New York State Office for the
Prevention of Domestic Viotence
52 Washington St, 3rd Floor
Rensselaer, NY 12144
Phone: (518) 486-6262
Fax: (518) 486-7675
Track: The Role of Alcohof in
Domestic Violence and its
Implications for Criminal Justice
lnterventions
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WHEREAS, the Office of License, Inspections and Environmental Protection and the Vice
Unit oE the Saint Paul Police Department have conducted a limited number (ranging from
25 to 75 checks) of liquor compliance checks each year fox the last 10 years, and
WHEREAS, the office of License, Inspections and Environmental Protection has been
selected to participate in a liquor compliance project Yunded by the Robert Wood Johnson
Foundation, in cooperation with MBC presentations, an entity that provides alcohol
awareness training to liquor dealeis throughout the State of Minnesota, and
WHEREAS, the office of License, Inspections and Environmental Protection and the Saint
Paul Police Department's vice Unit plan to conduct Prom 75 to 100 compliance checks in
1998, taxgeted at locations whexe mi.nozs are likely to able to obtain alaohol, and
WHEREAS, the funding pzovided in the amount of $3,000.00 would be used to purchase
product, and recruit, train, and compensate underage decoys to be used in the above
mentioned liquor compliance checks,
WHEREAS, the Mayox, pursuant to Section 10.07.04 of the city charter, recommends the
following changes to the 1998 budget:
Current
Bud e
FINANCING PLAN:
Depa:tment of Executive Administration
Division - License, 2nspections, and
Environmental Protection
GL 320 33353 6999 Othex Mi.sc. Revenue N.O.C.
All Other Activity Financing
3PENDING PLb�N:
Department o£ Executive Administration
Division - License, Inspections, and
Environmental Protection
GL 320 33353 0298 Snvestigations
Al1 Other Activity Spending
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Green Sheet # 50432
RESOLUTION
CITY OF SAINT PAUL, MINNESOTA
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REQUESTED: Approval of a resolution to accept grant funds for liquor
nce checks for 1998 to be performed by the Police and LIEP.
APPROVE (A) OR REJECT �R)
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Has the pezsoni£ixm ever wotked ssnder a contracC for this depar[ment?
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Aas this person/fizm ever baen a City Employse?
YES NO
Does this person/firm Bossess a skill not normally possessed by any
clirxent City esployee?
YES NO
aia a11 YES aaawars on a saparaCe sheaG ead attach.
TIATING PROBLEM, ISSUE, OPPORTUNITY (Who, What, When, Where, Why):
support of the Mayor's priority to reduce the availability of liquor to
ors funds are available to assist the City in carrying out additional
uor compliance checks in 1998. Alcohol Awareness classes will also be
vided to Saint Faul license holders as part of this program, but funding
the classes will be provided separately from this grant.
GES IF APPROVED:
ent funcls will be available to pay the cost of recruitment and
g, for underage decoys so the City will be able to conduct up to 100
at the approximately 500 license liquor establishments in the City.
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Phe number of compliance checks would be diminished.
'OTAL AMOUNT OF TRANSACTION $ 3,000 COSTJREVENUE BUDGETED� YES NO
UNDING SOURCE Private Grant ACTIVITY NUI�ER 320 33353 0298
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Dear Colleague:
U.S. Degartment of Justice
Office of Justice Programs
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June 30, 1998
I would like to take this opportunity, once again, to thank you for participating in the National
Symposium on Alcohoi Abuse and Crime convened eazlier this spring by the U.S. Department
of Justice, Office of Justice Programs. Tt was an exciting and productive event for us at OJP.
From the feedback I've had from participants, I lrnow that many of you also felt it was a
worthwhile opporiunity for diatogue on this important issue.
The commihnent that I made to you at the close of the Symposium--in response to your
unanimous request--was to share with you the report smxunarizing reoommendations which
emerged from the Symposium. Today, I am pleased to send you that report.
I hope you will find these recommendations useful and informative as you confinue your own
discussions and work on the issue of alcohol abuse and crime in your communities. At the
Office of Justice Programs, we will be looking to it as we move forwazd to plan and implement
initiatives during this and future years.
Again, thank you for your hard work and your thoughtful insights.
Sincerely,
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Laurie binson
Assistant Attorney General
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Part I.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Overview. The Nationa{ Sympasium on
Alcohoi Abuse and Crime . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
The Role of Alcohoi P,buse in Damestic
Volence and ifs implications for
Criminai Justice interventions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
Effeetive Intervent+ons for Offender Populations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
Underage Use ofAlcohoi ................................... 23
Cammunify-based Responses and fnitiatives . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31
Research, Evaluation, and Knowiedge Dissemination . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37
Part 1{.
Part NI.
Part iV.
Part V.
Part Vi.
Appendix1. Symposium Agenda .......................................1-1
Appendix 2. Symposium Participants . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-1
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Part 1: Overview: The National Symposium on Alcohot Abuse and Grime
In the fa{I of 1997, Assistanf Attomey General Laurie Robinson convened a federal
interagency working group fo pfan a National Symposium on Alcohoi Abuse and Crime.
in the Assistant Attomey Generai's words, the symposium wouid �...reinforce what we
all know and want to #ocus on—that the tinks between alcohol abuse and crime and
what to do about this problem are of critical importance to the health and safety of
America's communities.' .
Purpose and Focus
In the months preceding the symposium, hefd in Washington, D.C. on April 5- 7, 1998,
fhe inferagency group identified key topics and speakers; structured the working
sessions of the agenda; and—perhaps most impo�tantiy—carefuQy identified more than
one hundred expert participants. Age, gender, and ethnic diversity—along with
professional diversity—characterized the individuals who were ultimate{y invited to
participafe.
The specific purposes of the symposium were:
To convene recognized feaders from fhe alcohol field including research,
treatment, criminal justice, community and victim advocacy, and prevention;
To provide a forum for these participants to engage in an honest and open discussion
of our current knowledge of the relationships between afcohol abuse and crime in all
of its dimensions, as weli as the breadth and effectiveness of our current criminal
justice and treafinent responses to alcohoi abuse and crime; and
To provide advice and guidance to the Office of Justice Programs (OJP) regarding
how it can best provide support to ongoing and emerging efforts to reduce alcohol-
related crime and its consequences.
ln ordec to focus the work of the symposium, the interagency planning group identified four
specife topic areas around which the working groups were organized. The topics were:
• The role of aicohol in domestic viofence and its implications for criminai justice
interventions;
• Effective interventions for offender populations;
• Community-based �esponses and initiatives; and
• The underage use of a{cohol.
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Symposium Format
Participants were invifed to join one of four working groups each organized around one of
the primary topics listed above in fhe Purpose and Focus se�tion. Each group was asked to
identify the major problems in its area, summarize current criminai jusfice responses to those
problems and what we know of their effectiveness, and develop a specific set of
recommendations about actions the Office of Justice Programs can take to reduce alcohol-
related crime and its consequences.
Pienary presentations, designed to provide participants with a common frame of reference
for fheir discussions, supptemented the working group sessions. The presentations were
representative of a wide variefy of perspectives and covered the current state of knowledge
on alcohol abuse and its relationship to crime; treatment approaches and fheir effectiveness;
cultural and ethnic dimensions of alcohol abuse; the role of alcohol in domestic violence;
community initiatives to address alcohot-related crimes; interventions within the correctional
system; and fhe underage use of alcohol_ The symposium agenda, which identiftes plenary
session topics as well as the presenters, is included as Appendix 1.
After two days of panel presentations and lively discussions, the four working groups
formulated their recommendations and hightighted their priority recommendations in a
presentation attended by a(! of the symposium parficipanfs and Afforney General Janet
Reno.
Participants
The response to QJP's invitation to participate in the symposium was ovenvhelming.
Ultimately, approximately 950 individuals, representing a broad variefy of disciplines
and perspectives, participated in the symposium. They included:
• Criminat justice officials from many different agencies inciuding law enforcement
personnel, judges from juvenile and adu(t courts as well as specialized alcohol
and drug courts, prosecutors, jail administrators, and representatives from
institutional and community based correct+ons agencies;
• Youth representatives;
• Representatives from collaborative community efforts to control alcohol-related
crime including alcohotic beverage control agencies, the retail industry, and the
alcohol beverage indusfry;
• Di�erse public policy practitioners and advocates such as local elected officials,
public hea(fh advocates, community organizers, and educators;
• Treatment and prevention specialists from the alcohol, substance abuse, and
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-- domestic violence arenas;
- • Vcfim advocates including representatives ofi the domestic violence advocacy
- • community;
� • Researchers and eva(uators; and
• Federal poticy makers, funders, and program managers.
- A comp{ete listing of fhe sympasium's participants is included as Appendix 2.
- Major Themes of the Symposium's Recommendations
-- While the symposium participants generated hundreds of recommendations during the
: course of their discussions, this report presents a synthesis of the recommendations
which fall most clearly within the purview of the Office of Justice Programs. There were
=- several key themes that emerged with striking consistency in all four groups which
�= provide a coherent framework for the numerous recommendations provided by the
symposium participants.
• Alcohol is a drug that is closely linked with crime, particularly violent crime. As a
result, it should have greater visibility in our efforEs to deal with crime and
' viofence. The four groups encouraged OJP to support initiatives which
- acknowledge alcoho! as a drug and which target the crime re(ated to afcoho!
abuse and its consequences.
- • OJP can provide important leadership on this issue by continuing to emphasize
the inclusion of alcoho{ in the dialogue about substance abuse, and to
; emphasize statistica! and qualitative information about the high propo�tion of
crime related to alcoho� abuse. .
The problems of alcohol abuse and crime, by their nature, cross all of our
traditional professional, jurisdictional, racial, efhnic, gender, and even
generational boundaries. If we are to begin to address these problems more
effectively, we must develop collaborative efforts—bringing together 1aw
enforcement, the courts, corrections agencies, treatment providers, victim
advocates, community representafives, health professians, researchers, alcohol
beverage control agencies, the alcohol beverage industry, the hospitality
industry, youth, and others. Therefore, the four groups encouraged OJP to
support initiatives which are based upon collaboration.
Efforts to prevent and respond to alcohol-related crime must be sensitive to the
communities and the cultural confext in which they occur, and must be
competent within those communities. 1t would be di�cult to overestimate the
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strength of conviction which participants felt on this point whether in relationship
to domestic violence, offender interventions, the underage use of alcohol, or
community initiatives. .
The consequences of alcohol abuse and alcohol-related crime fatl
disproportionately upon communities in Indian Country, A Native American is
475% more likely to die of alcohol-related causes than is the average American.
fn addition, other conditions such as unempfoyment and family disruption that
corre(ate hi�hty with crime in aii communities are experienced disproportionateiy
in Indian Country. Prevention and intervention effo�ts regarding alcohol-related
crime must be cognizant of these needs and the disproportionate impact of
alcohol abuse and crime in Indian Country.
One of the barriers impeding our progress in utilizing the knowtedge that we do
have is the gap that exists between research and practice. Each of the working
groups at the symposium spoke passionately of the need to use the knowledge
we have, to make it available to communities and practitioners as they mobilize
their efforts to deal with alcohol abuse, and to share our knowledge abouf what
works. The four working groups ertcouraged OJP to disseminate emerging
research results widely and in a form thaf is accessible and understandable to
the broader community. They also encouraged OJP to support research on the
fopic of alcohol abuse and crime in proporfion to ifs importance as a drug of
abuse—which is sign�cant, and greater than many drugs of abuse which we
research e�ensively.
In its broadest sense, community involvement requires the participation of
individua(s who are mosf affecfed by a probtem and its solution. The four
working groups encouraged OJP to undertake initiatives in partnership with
individuals and communities who are most influenced by alcohol abuse and
crime. Youth, victims, racial and.ethnic groups, and specific communities must
be inctuded and empowered to participate in the solutions to these problems.
The working groups found the opportunity for d+alogue at the symposium to be
an important step forward i� addressing the problem of alcohol abuse and crime.
They encourage OJP to consider sponsoring further opportunities for
coflaborative discussions among diverse groups on tF�e role of alcohol in
domestic viotence, effective interventions for offender populations, and the
underage use of alcohol.
Organization of this Report
Each of the working groups af the symposium generated a set of discussion nofes and
an outline of recommendations. Parts tl - V of this report are a synthesis of each
group's discussions and recommendations. Major issues, problems, and needs are
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discussed as "Targefs for Change" in each section and are followed by
recommendations organized into categories. The report attempts to remove
dupiication, combine refated recommendations, and to include primarily those
recommendations which retate to OJP's areas of responsibility. Each group generated
exkensive recommendations regarding research--on research questions, research
methods, and fhe dissemination of research resulfs. To avoid repetition and highlight
common themes, Part VI of the report incorporates recommendations on research from
all four working groups.
Highlighted Recommendations
To fuily appreciate the extent and complexity of the issues which participants discussed
and the recflmmendations which they formulated, the reader is encouraged to review
each of the following sections of this document. However, participants did highiight key
recommendations for discussion wifh OJP during the symposium. These highlighted
recommendations pravide an overview of the full set of recommendations presented in
Parts 11- Vt of this report.
The ro% of a/coho! in domesfic vio%nce and ifs imp/ications for criminal
justice interventions
2. increase funding and support for community-based, culturai(y competent
programs that successfully integrate services across a system that is
currently very fragmented;
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Conduct and support research on initiatives fhat foster linkages among
community groups, service and treatment p�oviders for domestic violence
and alcohol problems, and the criminal }ustice sysfem;
Support screening for and assessment of aicohol use among ali batterers
who are in contact with the criminal justice system;
Ensure that non-coercive a{cohoi treatment options are available for
women who are victims of domestic vio{ence; and
5. Convene a simifar symposium or focus group to look specifically at the
links between domestic violence and alcohol abuse. 7here is stili much
learning to be shared from aii sides, and more dialogue and exploration
that need to happen before specific recommendations can be made with
full agreement.
Effective inferventions for coaecfiona/ popu/ations
Support the development of a comprehensive continuum of care thaf
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connects all etements of the treatment and criminal justice communities
from arrest through discharge from the system;
2. Encourage fhe formulation af a common language for both treatment and
criminal justice practitioners that adequately defines terms, articulates
treatment goals, and adequafely expresses agreed-upon sfandards of
care; .
3. Support the definition and dissemination of accepted `best" treafinenf and
intervention pracfices that are culturaAy competent across all offender
poputations, inctuding Native American populations;
4. Suppo�t the development and imptemenfation of effective treatment
strategies for offender popuiations wha wiH be within the correctional
system for only short periods of time, particularly jail populations; and
5. Encourage a more coordinated and accountable system for responding to
driving under the influence of alcohol.
Underage use of alcobol
Support efforts to focus on alcohol advertising and marketing including: a)
additional research on the effects of alcohol advertising on young
persons, b) fhe allocation of substantiat resources (on a scale similar to
the amount the federal government has allocated for its anti-i!licit drug
media campaign) to purchase media time for messages abouf the
dangers associafed wifh the underage use of alcohot, and c) efforts ta
discourage alcohol advertising and marketing that target and appea! to
underage persons;
2. Support efforfs fo encourage responsible hospitality practices including:
a} consistent enfoccement of laws regarding the sale and distribution of
alcohol to underage persons, b) mandatory comptiance checks of all
alcohol outlets, c} fraining of alcohol merchants and servers regarding the
sate of alcohol to underage persons, and d) the restriction of the number
of alcohol outlets in areas frequented by underage persons;
3. Support col(aborative communify efforts to address the problem of
underage alcohol use that include peer justice and youth empowerment
programs, linkages among the treatment and criminal justice agencies,
and a concerted effort to invofve youth in fhe effort to create an
environmenf which discourages rather than encourages the underage use
of alcohol; and
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4. Provide support for another structured and organized opportunity for
coliaborative d'rscussion on this issue and, in particular, to devetop more
fuNy this working groups's extensive list of recommendations.
Community-based responses and initiatives
Undertake a program of community-based initiatives for prevenfing
atcohol-related crime that are competent with respect to gender and
culture. These initiatives shoutd focus on alcohol outtet availability,
advertising, and the enforcement of alcoholic beverage control
regulations. The initiatives should invotve partnerships with community
sfakeholders and should adopt strategies which include the alcoholic
beverage controt system and should be based upon the existing research
on effective efforts in this area;
2. Support research and evaluation on alcohof-related crime issues that
incorporate partnerships involving researchers and community decision
makers and policy makers and that lead to broad dissemination of
information on "what works" to communities interested in addressing
these issues;
3. Encourage crime-prevention initiatives which incorporate alcoho{ic
beverage control agencies as crime prevention resources; and
4. Enter into a special partnership for Indian Country initiatives on alcohol
abuse and crime, with the active part+cipation of communities within
Indian Country.
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`- Part 11: The Role of Alcohol Abuse in Domestic Violence and Its
implications for Criminaf Justice {nterventions
Background of the Discussion
The discussion began with a review of what the crim9na4 justice system can do to
- address domestic violence generally, and, specifically, domestic violence related to
alcahol abuse. . Par.ticipants agreed that, although there has been significant progress
in caising the visibiliry of domestic violence within the system, the need for more
- effect'sve responses to domestic violence in generat and to domestic violence related to
: alcoho! abuse still presents critical chalienges.
The participants fielt that a difficuit barrier arises from the apparent tension which
emerges between the goai of assuring accountability and sanctions far batterers and
the goal of providing alcohol treatment for batterers. 1n brief, domestic violence
_- advocates are concerned that a heavy emphasis upon an offender's alcohol addiction
== may relieve him ofresponsibility for his actions and downplay deserved sanctions.
Even beyond that, it may encourage the use of treatment resources for addicfion issues
rather than for batterers issues. Some felt that afEer the lengthy battle to label domestic
violence for what it is—a crime—it seems like a step backward to focus upon baiterers
needs for alcohol treatment rather than the punishment they deserve.
At the same time, for those whose violence is exacerbated by alcohol addiction,
addressing addiction issues can be important in preventing future victimization--a
concern for afl domestic violence advocates.
7argets for Ghange
As with the other three working groups, a recurring theme running through the
discussions of the domestic violence group was the importance of co{laboration.
Although particularly difficult in this area, the group identified a number of the potential
benefits of true coflaborafion. They include the ability to:
• Develop a befter understanding of the issues underlying domestic violence and
alcoho! abuse;
• fncrease the frequency and effectiveness of screening at al1 points in the
criminal justice system;
• Recognize the need for and conducf cross-training;
• Truly infegrate service delivery;
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Recognize the need for and conduct research on tinkages;
Provide services to families; and
Assume more responsibility—ultimately—for women's safety across agencPes
{treatment, medical, courts, etc.).
However, the forces militating against collaboration can be significant. Funding
increasingly does require collaboration, but too often efforts can go fonvard unilaterally
without the leverage of funders encouraging or requiring collaboration. In addition, the
diffculties of maintaining collabo�ation, once begun, are well-known.
�ffe�tive Linkages and Integrafion /ssues
Even beyond the genera( need for collaboration, the group felt that effective
intervenfions for domestic violence require specific, rigorous efforts to link agencies
and services. This is critical in order to ensure the safety of victims of domestic
viotence who have alcohot abuse problems and those uvho do not. The dimension of
alcohol abuse only intensifies and makes more complex the requirements for
integration. Severat participants urged using the °peacemake�' approach to address
the intersection of all these fragmented agencies and agendas. Some of the specific
issues in this area raised by participants include the need to:
• Integrate a domestic violence assessment component into atl alcohol freatmenf
programs;
• Integrafe safety-related strategies info all atcohol treatment planning/case plans
for victims of domesfic violence;
•__. Frovide services fhat better meet victims' needs and that are women friendly and
appropriate (this is essential if we are to successfully integrate domestic
violence and alcohol services);
• Bring more community-based representatives to the table when a"team" or task
force is created;
• Look at victims' involvement in the criminal justice system on other charges and
use that involvement to help dea! with alcoho! or drug addiction and
victimization;
• Be clear about the purpose of screening for alcohof or drug addiction for
batterers in the criminal justice system (i.e., is it an avenue of additionaf
intervention, a way to diminish responsibiliry, or wilt it be used to give priority to
alcohol or drug addiction freatment over batferers' intervention and sanctions?);
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• Consider joinf classificafion of bafterers for treatment needs, justice
=- requirements, and risk assessments;
• Assure that specific screening components be inciuded in ail programs
-- associated with alcohoi abuse and domestic violence {i.e., shelters, the
batterers' interview, freafinent, etc.); and
' • lnclude law enforcement as integrai partners in aU coliaborative efforts to
� address domestic violence.
Participanfs suggested a unified court, such as the domestic violence docket which is
currentiy operating in Bridgeport, Connecticut, as a vehicle for assuring integration. A
unified court brings a range of points to bear including victim interests, and does not
have to depend upon the strength of any other agency's particular commitmenf or focus
on this issue. In such a court, the system can:
:-; • Provide a quick response (i.e., by the next day) with no time for intimidation by
the batterer;
• Ensure that ail relevant parties are present in court;
• Provide protective orders;
• Provide regular accountability to the court; and
• Provide finkages to batterers' pragrams in jail and in the community.
T�eatment and intervention
A basic value shared by the members of this group was that every facet of treatment
and the criminai justice system is responsibie for providing safety for women. This
presents significant challenges, since funding and services are often fragmenied.
Other challenges regarding treatment and intervention include the need to:
Avoid victim-blaming;
Develop cultural{y competent treatment;
Recognize that alcohot and domestic violence are inter-generationai and co-
generational, and this has implications for screening and service delivery (i.e.,
treatment as prevention, its role in juvenile offenses; and how to approach +t with
children, teens, mothers, and pa�tners);
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• Develop and implement intervention models that are not colonizing;
• Understand the role and vatue of spirituality. in recovery;
• Address the undermining of linkages and services by the movement of pubiic
services to managed care; and
• Advance the infegration of alcohol treatment and batterers' intervention
programs by exploring such innovations as:
► The intensive case management modei by probation as it is used in some
drug coufts, and
Outreach to judges about integration.
Recommendations
These recommendations reflect a wide breadth of experience among group members.
Aithough there was no effort to achieve consensus, the recommendafions are lisfed in
rough order of priority (within each category) as determined by votes taken during the
discussion. The recommendations fail into the foliowing categories:
• Collaboration;
• Treatment and Infervention;
• Education and information Dissemination;
• Training; and
• Policy.
CoHaboration
Participanfs recommended that OJP support and promote the fotlowing e#Forts and
initiatives.
A continuafion of the dialogue between domestic violence programs
(victimisurvivor and offender treafinent programsj and fhe atcohol field (inciude
representatives from both treatment and prevention) that occurred at the
symposium. One vehicte for such a dialogue would be a forum/conference for
practifioners and poticy makers to review current research and promising
practices regarding alcohol abuse and domestic vio(ence. Such a forum should
include a diversity of opinions and approaches. It could also form a basis for
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subsequent training on the conclusions which emerge from the conference.
Deve{opmenf of an understanding of the cu{tural dimension of a{cohol abuse and
domestic vioience, in particuiar, for freatment in indian Counfry,
Collaboration with other federai agencies fo deai with the probiems of domestic
violence and.alcohoi abuse in at least two ways. �irst, OJP agencies shouid
errter into caflaborative efforts among themselves and with other federal
agencies. 'fhis witi model and encourage collaboration among the state and
local efforts supported by federal funding. Further, OJP funding shoufd be
conditioned upon efForts at collaboration at the local and state leveis.
Encouragement of more coordination among criminal justice agencies and
batferers intervention programs.
Invoivement of survivors (consumer community) as weli as the broader
community in planning, developing, and implementing integrated programming.
Treatment and Intervention
Participants recommended that OJP shauld support and promote fhe following efforts
and initiatives.
• Provision of appropriate non-coercive aicohol treatment options for women who
are victims of domestic violence.
• Screening of offenders for alcohol abuse at all points of contact within the
criminal justice system.
• Development of a model treatment program for batterers that inciudes screening,
an assessment of alcohol use, and addresses the re{ationship between alcohol
abuse and domestic vioience. Such a program shouid be evaluated in terms of
its effectiveness for various typologies of batterers.
• Provision of domestic violence education and prevention services to all high risk
groups (i.e., offenders, ex-offenders, those on probation and parole, and their
families), especially through community-based organizations.
• Provision of information about alcohol use/abuse as a safety issue to victims and
survivors of domestic violence.
• Estabfishment of a domestic violence component in substance abuse programs
with the invoivement and input of the domestic violence victim advocacy
community. This will also require cross-training of respective staff involved in
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assessment, piacement, screening, and a(fernative treatment modalities.
Provision of more resources and facilifies to meet basic needs in many parks of
Indian Country where such resources and facilities are lacki�g (i.e., victim
services, shelters, transporfation, and alcohoi treatment}.
The recognition of domestic violence and alcohol or drug addietion issues in the
homes of juyenites who are in trouble with the law.
Education and lnformation Dissemination
Participants recommended fhat OJP support and promote the following efforts and
ini6atives.
Presentation of cr+minal j�stice system data to the pubiic fo educate and raise
the awareness of domestic viotence as a serious probiem, including the
intersection between domestic �iolence and a(cohol abuse.
Improvements in the measurement of domesfic violence and atcohoi abuse, and
an opening of fhe design process to a wider circle of input.
Training
Participants felt that OJP should support and promote the foliowing efEorts and
initiatives.
integration of training for criminal justice, advocacy, treatment, and other
agencies.
ldentification of best practices and provision of training for law enforcement,
judges, and other decision-makers on domestic violence and alcohol (inkages.
Poticy
Parficipants recommended that OJP support and promote the following efforts and
initiatives.
Development and support of policies which ensure that domestic violence
offenders receive appropriate criminal justice sanctions. Alcohol should nof
mitigate or increase the criminal justice penatty.
Development of more unified court models for domestic violence and alcohol
abuse issues.
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-. Part Ilf: Effective Interoentions for Offender Poputations
- Background of the Discussion
-- A key issue raised by Assisfant Atfomey General Laurie Robinson in her remarks at the
`� opening of the symposium was the prevalence of alcohol abuse among offender
_ populations. The dimensions of this problem have been confirmed recently—both by a
sfudy published by fhe National Center on Addiction and Substance Abuse at Columbia
-� University, and the anatysis prepared by the Bureau of Justice Statistics specificaily for
_. the symposium. That analysis indicates that futly 35 percent of the 5.3 mitlion
convicted offenders under correetionai supervision--nearly 2 million individuals—were
�" under the influence of alcohol at the time of their offense.
= The working group on effe�tive interventions for offender populations discussed how
� the crimina! justice system can effectively intervene with offenders to reduce the
tikelihood of future crime associated with aicohol abuse.
The members of this group were in general agreement that the number and proportion
of offenders moving througfi the system who have significant afcohof probfems is
: staggering. The group also agreed that, among the public and even among policy
makers, there is very little appreciation for this fact. Not surprisingiy, then, the
: resources dedicafed to addressing alcohol treatment for offenders are limifed at best
and non-existent at worst. At least part of the difficulty in assuring adequate resources
has been the heavy focus that the criminal justice system has piaced upon iilicit drugs,
at the expense of identifying alcohol abuse as a priority. Even drug testing, which has
become a widely-used tool in dealing with illicit drug use, often does not target alcoho!
use.
TargeEs for Change
The group identified a number of areas of agreement that may be seen as guiding
princip{es for its recommendations in this area and imply major targets for change and
improvement. Although there was great debate on a number of questions, there
appeared to be some consensus on the following targets for change.
Continuum of Gare
Interventions for offender populations should include a continuum of care from arrest to
discharge a�d involve both short-term and long-term strategies for alcohol treatment.
Current treatment interventions often refy on fragmented, under-resourced, and
generally inadequate attempts to identify alcohol problems and treat them among
offender populations. ln order to achieve the goal of reducing the likelihood of future
crime associated with alcohol abuse, a continuum of care concept is essential. The
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efements of a continuum of care inc(ude: screening; assessmenf for diagnosis and risk;
treatment pianning; provision of treatment for counseling and rehabilitation; transitionai
care from institution to community; relapse prevention and intervention; and linkages
created to tend fo information flow, the flow of offenders through fhe crimina! justice
system, and the flow of offenders from institutions to the community.
Continuing Dia/ogue on Treatmenf and Sfandards of Care
The participants agreed that there is a clear need for further dialogue to develop a
generally accepted definifion of alcohol treatment and to work toward generatty
accepted standards of care. The extensive discussion and debate within the working
group emphasized that there is little agreement on the definition of what constitutes
acceptable atcohof treafinenf. The group discussed a definition which began with an
acknowledgment that treatment is a prescribed regimen of therapeutic intervention
rendered or overseen by a qualified professional consistent with generally accepted
profocols. They also suggesfed thaf some further characteristics of accepfabie
treatment implicit in a"continuum of care° might include:
• The use of scienfificaily-based.assessment foots;
• Treatment matched to the level of offender need;
• Psychological and medical supervision of groups and individuals;
� Peersupport;
• Family intervention and counseling;
• Case management; and
• Treatmenf providers who are licensed and meef specific sfandards.
However, the group could not agree on a definition and noted the need for continuing
dialogue on this topic with the ultimate goals of a common def+nition of treatment and
minimum standards of care.
The participants felt that implication of their conclusion—that there are no accepfed
standards for freatmenf—suggests that the need for dialogue on fhis topic is critical and
should receive priority consideration in OJP's planning in this area.
Culturat Competence
Participants agreed that al! treatment programs and interventions should be undertaken
wifhin a framework of a culfurafty competent system of care that is both age and gender
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specific. They fe{t that much of the treatment that +s available does not adequately
recognize that alcohoi abuse takes place in a culturai context and is affected
intrinsicatly by the gender or age of fhe individual invofved. If we are to expect
interventions to be effective, this must change. The group iderrt�ed a set of specific
recommendations regarding actions wifhin indian Country. They aiso acknowiedged
the over-representation of Native Americans, African Americans, and Hispanic
Americans among offender populations. The group's recommendations emphasize fhe
need for culturaily competent interventions within these communities.
The �sibility of A/coho/ as a Drug
= Although atcohol is 1ega1, participants emphasized that we need to be dear that it is a
drug. They felt that alcohol's legal status should not diminish the priority we place
- upon dealing with the consequences of its abuse. The emphasis on illicit drug use has
often deflected attention from the need to address this problem.
�= Crimina! Justice and Communify Linkages
The group agreed that linkages between the criminal justice system and the community
:. should be developed and expanded.
Public Safefy
Participants emphasized that the focus of this group on treatment and a continuum of
care for offenders is warranted primarily because of the community safety benefits that
it promises. lf we can have a significant impact upon the patterns and instances of
alcohol abuse amorig offender populations which are related to crime (and particularly
violent crime) we make a significant impact upon reducing future criminality and
increasing community safety.
Recommendations
The participants' recommendations concerning effective interventions for offender
populations fall into severa! categories:
• fnterventions and Treatment;
• Interventions for Offenders Who Are Guilty of Driving Under the Inffuence of
Alcohol;
• Interventions for Native American Offenders;
• Interventions for African Americans Offenders and Nispanic American Offenders;
and
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Education and Training.
Interventions and Treatment
Parficipanfs agreed that OJP should support and promote the following efforts and
initiatives.
A more coo�dinated and effecfive delivery system for interventions should be
developed f[om the time of arrest thcough sentencing and execution of a
sentence. This should include clear definitions of goals, objectives, and
outcomes for treatment, intervention, programs and offenders. A more effective
detivery system shouid aiso include linking information systems. There should
be a high levei of coordination between the juvenile and adult systems.
Linkages shouid extend beyond the criminai justice system to inclu�e education,
health and human services, and ofher appropriate fie(ds. The systc� should
operate within constitutiona! and lega( parameters.
Effective interventions and treatment for short-term populations (i.e., jail
populations) should be developed.
• A comprehensive continuum of care and treatment should be developed
throughout the criminal jusfice system thaf acknowledges the movement of
offenders from the community into instifufions and back into the community.
Implicit in this recommendation is the sense of the group that if is important to
consider the variety of target populations that should be identified under the
general categary of "offe�ders.° Their issues and needs regarding treatment
interventions wili vary. These target populations include: convicted drunk driving
offenders; probationers and parolees supervised in the community; offenders
incarcerafed in jail (both prefriat and sentenced) and prison; juvenile offenders;
- - offender subgroups (i.e., sex offenders, menta(ly iIl offenders; drug-involved
offenders who also use alcohol, gang-involved offenders, etc.j; ethnic and
cultural offender subgroups (e.g., Native American oifenders, IVative American
offenders, Hispanic American offenders, etc.); and families of offenders.
Mechanisms for fostering befter coordination of funding at each level of
government and among differenf agencies of government (federal, state, tocal,
and tribal) should be developed. Particular efforfs should be made at the federal
level to coordinate the multiple sources of funding from within the Department of
Justice, from within the Qepartment of Health and Human Services, and from
within other departments.
Restoration shoufd be a goal and a part of the sanction at each stage of the
system and a part of every treatment ptan.
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_ • A broad-based forum shouid be created to aiiow for dialogue about treatment
and intervenfion issues, to heip estabfish a common understanding of the range
= of freatment programs and interventions, and to help estabiish a common
language.
�=- • Scientifically-based assessment tools should be linked or matched to
appropriate treatment and intervention.
- � Additional treafinent resources should be created for alcohol offenders, including
post-release treafinent programs. There are cunently few, if any, resources
_ specific to alcohol. .
� Intervention initiatives should be designed to respond to the varying issues and
needs of smail, large, urban, and rurai jurisdictions.
AI{ offenders shoufd have access to scientifica{ly-based alcohol and other drug
screening and appropriate treatment as part of being held accountable and
punished for their crimes.
- Offenders Who Are Guilty of Driving Under the influence of Alcohoi
For the most part, sanctions for driving under the influence of afcohol are prescribed by
state statute rather than by federal policy. The paRicipants' recommendations which
follow highlight areas in which OJP and other federal agencies might work with state
and local jurisdictions who are interested in prioritizing driving under the influence of
alcoho! as an offense for prosecution and sanctioning, and implementing initiatives
which will contribute to a reduction of such crimes in the future. The participants
agreed that OJP should support the foifowing efforts and initiatives.
Development of an accountable system for dealing with offenders who are guilty
of driving under the influence of alcohol in which:
� Stability is promoted among staff who are committed to long-term change;
� Drunk driving offenses are given a higher priority in the system (priority
docketing, cases are heard more immediately, cases have more prestige,
etc.);
� Information flow through the courts is more effective and reaches
everyone who needs it; and
► Judges are better informed.
Crestion of "specialized" drunk driving courts. Develop critical,program
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efements for drunk driving courts {similar to Defining Orug Courfs: The Key
Componenfs, Drug Courts Program Office, January 1997).
• In jurisdictions where it is not feasible to create a"specialized" court, judges and
others in the crir►�inal justice system should be provided with the information and
skills necassary to dea! effectively with issues related to alcohoi abuse among
the offenders whom they screen, assess, prosecute, adjudicate, and sentence.
• Developmenf of ways fo community outreaches so fhat the generai public
understands issues related to driving under the influence, of alcohol.
• Development of scientifically-based assessment and screening toois for offender
populations.
• Increasing the range of seff-regulating devices which are avaitable to the
general public.
• Development of a national tracking mechanism to track drunk drivers (including
offenses within local, state, federal, and tribal jurisdictions).
• Development of legal changes to amend current laws to allow for limited driving
privileges of some convicted drunk drivers who have had their licenses
suspended (i.e., to gef fo freatmenf or a job}.
• Development of a broader range of sanctions for drunk driving offenses.
Responses to drunk driving should include a combination of punishment,
rehabilitation, and restitution.
� Development of ways to encourage states to amend cuRent laws to allow for
aufo forfeiture for a third time predatory felony drunk driving offense.
(nterventions for Native American Offenders
Consistent with a strong theme running through all of the groups' discussions at the
symposium, the working group on effective offender interventions agreed upon the
need to address the disproportionafe burden of alcohol abuse and crime on .
communities in lndian Country, and the vast over-representation of Native Americans
among correctional populations. The participants agreed that OJP should support the
following efforts and initiatives.
Esfablishment of a working group of Nafive American staff and others from
among federa► agencies (CSAT, OJP, BiA, and others} to foster and coordinate
initiatives in tndian Country, and to address the problems of alcohol abuse and
crime.
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• Development of interventions and treatment for Native American offenders within
= a cultural context which competently resQond to tribal difFerences. At present,
-= there is a significant lack of effective intervention and treatment methodo{ogies
designed specifcall� foe Native American populations.
'- • Development of specialized drug and alcohol cou�ts in tribal courts.
_- • tdentlficatton of specific actions which might be taken in individual Native
�' American communities to reduce afcohol-refated crime. Some examples offered
_ by participants included the closing of drive-up windows for the purchase of
� atcohof and the development of more detention space in Indian Country.
• tdentification and use of the human resources to be found within Native
- American communities when addressing all aspects of this issue (i.e., research,
evaluation, treatment, etc.).
�_ • Clarification of myths and perceptions regarding Native Americans and alcoho{.
Interventions for African American and Hispanic American Offenders
A strong majority ofi the group felt that it was important to emphasize the needs of
� African Americans and Hispanic Americans for effective intervention strategies among
-- offender populations. Both of these communities are over represented among
correctiona! populations in America and face difficult problems with respect to alcohol
abuse and crime. There is a need for culturally competent interventions for these
populations and the participants strongly encouraged to support efforts to develop such
interventions.
� Education and Training
The participants agreed that OJP should support and promote the following efforts and
initiatives.
Training and education of judges, treatment providers, and other criminal justice
decision-makers on issues related to alcohol and crime.
Development of public education and community outreach programs that involve
communities in meaningfu! ways about all the issues related to alcohol and
crime.
Development of ways to encourage collaboration among federal agencies to
provide public education and marketing materials on state-of-the-art research
and evaluation with respect to this topic.
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Part IV: Underage Use of Alcohol
Background of the Discussion
The worfcing group on the underage use of alcohol reviewed current innovations,
-� identified significant needs, and generated recommendations for OJP that address:
The kinds of interventions and initiatives that effeetively address fhe underage
use of alcohol and its negative consequences,
• The complex relationship between alcohol abuse and ilficit drug use;
• The need to more sensitively and competently address the relationship between
- alcohol abuse and crime in tribal communities;
_- • The importance of collaborative partnerships between and among those who are
:; committed to eifectively addressing alcoho!-related crime and its negative
consequences;and
The importance of effectivefy responding to victims of alcohol-related crime.
Afthough the group identified dozens of recommendations, they felt that it would require
more focus and examination to develop them to a point that will allow OJP fo make best
use of them. During the working sessions, the group expressed a collective desire to
participate in another structured and organized opportunity for collaborative discussion
on this issue and in particular, to refine their specific recommendations. The group,
therefore, perceives the recommendations which follow as representing the first of
many important steps in initiating effective and competent change; and looks forward to
the possibifity of engaging in another series of intensive working sessions in the near
future.
The youth representatives who participated in the group brought broad perspectives,
keen insights, passion for the issues, a�d willingness to actively er►gage the adults in
the group. They played a pivotal rofe in the group's discussion and development of
recommendations.
Targets for Change
There are three inter-related guiding principles upon which the group's work was
premised. These principles were unanimously endorsed by the group and provide an
overview of the targets for change which the group identified if we are to make progress
in reducing underage alcohol use and its consequences.
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Co/laborafion Emphasizing Subsfantive Youth Involvement
Participants felt that he need to address aicoho! abuse and crime, inciuding the
underage use of alcohol, will require significant wllaboration. This working group
emphasized the impottance of substantive involvement of youth in these coilaborative
efforts. The creation of a truly collaborative strategy will require support and
assistance from OJP to bring all of the relevant parties together to participate (i.e.,
representafives from the law enforcemenf, treatmenf, research, poficy making, and
juvenile justice arenas), to begin to develop a shared vision, to identify common values,
and fo deve(op linkages"#a carry out shared work. Opportunities for cotlaboration must
exist at the local, state, and national levels as well as in Indian Country.
Competent and Effec6ve Approaches to Dealing with /ssues of Race and Culture
Participants afso fe�t that programs to address the underage use of alcohol and its
negative consequences must be tailored to sensibly respond to the specific cultural
needs of fhose they are fargefing and affecfing. This can be achieved only if individuaf
communities and their members are given the opportunity to actively participate in the
devetopment of initiatives that wilf directly impact them.
Commifinenf to Environmental Change
The working group discussed at length how underage persons in our communities
receive very conflicting messages about a(cohol consumption. In order to reduce the
underage use of alcohol, the group asserted thaf OJP must be committed to developing
poficies and inifiatives which send c(earer, more consistenf, and direct messages to
youth about the dangers and potentia! consequences of alcohol use.
Recommendations
The group's recommendations fall into a number of areas and in several instances,
+nclude a brief list of innovations and promising practices7programs that the participants
identified. The group recommended that OJP research the effectiveness of these
innovafions and promising practices/programs. IF their value and utility can be
documented, OJP should explore ways in which it can encourage other communifies to
adopt the lessons emerging from them.
The fo!lowing recommendations are listed (in each area) in rough order of priarity as
determined by votes taken during the discussion. The categories around which the
group organized its recommendations are:
Community Mobilization;
Enforcemenf;
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• lntenrention;
• Marketing, Public Education, and �ommunity Awareness;
• Prevention;
• Training and Technical Assistance;
• �ctim Issues; and
• Youth lnvolvement.
Community Mobi/ization
Participants felt that OJP should support and promote:
• A national initiative to encourage weekend underage community service projects
to encourage positive community activism among and partnerships between
young persons and adults.
The participants recommended that OJP examine the following innovations and
promising practiceslprograms which focus on community mobilization:
• The "Fighting Back" Program in Gallup, New Mexico;
• The "Community Systems of Care Approach" used by the Mississippi Band of
Choctaw lndians and the Cheyenne River Sioux Tribe;
• CSAP's DREAM Community Partnership in Forrest County, Mississippi;
• The °Assets Project° in BridgeporF, Conneeticut;
• The "Community Readiness Model" from the University of Colorado;
• NANACOA's "Community-based Intensive Training;
• The Saving Lives Program in Massachusetts; and
• CMCA's community organizing program to reduce youth access to alcohol.
Enforcement
Participants felt that OJP should support and promote:
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• Ef{orts by communities to consider restrictions on the number of alcohol outlets
in areas frequented by underage persons (i.e., schools and community centers);
• Consistent, regular, and mandatory compliance checks of alcohol outlets in
communities that are interested in and equipped to conduct lhem;
• A substanfiai increase in the consistency and severity of penalties for both
individuals as well as liquor license holders who seil alcohol to underage
persons; _
• The consistent and appropriate enforcement of zero tolerance taws/statutes in
all jurisdiotions;
• An immediate change in federa! statutes which currently prohibif tribal police
departmenfs from apprehending non-Indians who distribute alcohol to u�derage
persons on fribaf lands;
• An increase in the use of administrative license revocation laws which target
underage persons who are arrested for driving under the influence of alcohol in
communities fhat are inferested in this enforcement approach;
• The expansion of community policing initiatives to include the enforcement of
underage drinking taws and statutes;
• The use and consistent enforcement of condifionaf (iquor licenses; and
• The possibility of using the ignition-interlock system on underage DUI/OUI
offenders.
The participants recommended that OJP examine the following innovations and
promising practices/programs which focus on enforcement:
• The Adolescenf Offender Program (AOD} in Mississippi that is associated with
Mississippi State University;
• 7he STOP Program in Naugatuc, Connecticut;
• The Use and Lose Program in Virginia; and
• The Community Pol+cing Program in Columbia, So�th Carolina.
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/ntervention
Participants recommended that OJP should support and promote:
• Peer justice and youth empowerment intervention pragrams including alternative
sentencing and diversion programs through the use of youth/peer/teen courts;
• Community-based systems of care which creaie positive and effiective
interventions;
• Early idenfification and intervention programs for at-risk youth such as first
offender diversion programs that involve juvenile ofifenders and their families;
• The establishment of links/liaisons between college/university administrations
and students to address campus binge drinking; and
• The inciusion of alcohol-related offenses in juvenile drug courts.
The participants recommended that OJP examine the following innovations and
promising practices/programs which focus on intervention:
The Midtown Manhattan Community Court; and
Spirituality and prayer intervention groups in tribal communities.
Marketing, Public Education and Community Awaieness
Participants recommended that OJP support and promote the following efforts and
initiatives.
Partnerships with other agencies and increased funding at the local, state, and
national levels to restrict alcohol advertising and marketing campaigns that
target or appeai to underage persons by:
► Requiring that there is a balance between alcohoi advertising and health
-- information/messages (counter advertising) that deglamorize underage
alcohoi consumption on billboards, in radio and television broadcasts,
and on coflege/university campuses;
Requiring that all alcohol advertising be preceded by warnings that
explain and describe the dangers associated with the underage use of
aicohol;
Mandating the "time channeling" of alcohol advertisements on television
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so that they do not appear during programs frequently viewed by
underage persons; and
Prohibiting the markefing of youfh-orienfed products (i.e., "atcopops° and
"freeze `n' squeeze°).
• The inclusion of aicohol in Office of National Drug Control Policy and other
government.sponsored anti-drug media campaigns.
• School-based programs to offset the negative effects of alcohol advertising on
young persons.
� Community efforts to limit alcohot advertising on billboards.
• Efforts to stop the promotion of discounted drinks.
• "Hands Off Holidays" campaigns to protect young people and ethniGracial
marketing targets.
• The development of a strategic media and public education campaign that
fargets abroad audience and describes the negative impact and consequences
of the underage use of alcohol.
• Culturally competent educational efforts in Indian Country to teach young Indian
persons how spirituafly, mental(y, and physicaily harmfut alcohot has been to
lndian people.
Prevention
Participants felt that OJP should �upport and promote prevention programs which focus
upon both the environment and on the individual through the provision of technical
assista�ce and resources to assist communities in changing the messages that they
send to underage persons about alcohol. These efforts might include support for
initiatives such as the development of counfer advertising programs and the
introduction and consistent enforcement of provisional liquor licenses.
Training and Technical Assistance
Participants recommended that OJP should support and promote the following efforts
and initiatives.
Opportunities for communities regarding sfrafegic ptanning and the develapment
of initiatives to address the underage use of alcohol and its negative
consequences. This training should incfude:
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► An emphasis on broad participation within and across communities;
_ ► A strong focus on the development and improvement of communication
links between and across community coalitions;
► An evaluation component (possibly based upon the use of indicafor
databases in the community to monitor trends) so that communities are
equipped to assess and improve their initiatives in a collaborative and
competent fashion; and
► Strategies for institutionalizing and legitimizing essential community
programs, policies, and initiatives.
• Mandatory training of afcohoi venders and servers regarding the sale of alcohot
- to underage persons, and a substantia! increase in the consistency and severity
_ of penalties for those who do no comply with the training.
• Core educational requirements forjuvenile courtjudges and prosecutors on
enforcement issues.
• The provision of technical assistance and funding for each state to develop
substance abuse Internet referral systems for agencies and citizens seeking
treatment �esources and other information.
• Training for judges (focal, state, federal, and tribal) on effective intervention
strategies.
• Advocacy training for youth.
• Youth/adult partnership training.
Victim /ssues
Participants recommended that OJP support and promote:
The identification and engagement of youth victims in advocacy and healing;
The development of programs to assist communities (especially minority
communities) in collecfively dealing with and addressing their experiences of
historical trauma and its impact on their alcohol-related problems;
The development of restorative justice programs in youth/teen/peer courts;
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• Mandatory training on victim's issues for juvenile courf judges, prosecufors,
public defenders, and probation officers at the local, state, and federal leveis;
and in tribal communities;
• The development of a strategyfo address the impact of the underage use of
alcohol on chitd victimization;
• The use of yictim impact panels in the juvenile justice system; and
• The development of programs to assist children of alcoholics.
Yout6 Involvement
While the work group recommended that youth be substantively included in all
programs, initiatives, and decisions that address the underage use of alcohol and its
negative consequences, they also deve(oped a specific lisf of recommendations
regarding youth involvement.
Participants recommended that OJP support and promote:
Efforts to "reach out" to youtF� who are not currenf(y invo(ved wifh this issue and
encourage them to become engaged; and
Peer based mentoring programs in schools starting in elementary school.
The participants recommended that OJP examine the foftowing innovafions and
promising practices/programs which focus on substantive youth involvement:
Youth empowerment programs which are supported through non-profit
organizations at the local, state, and national levels (i.e. MADD Youth in Action
Program, MADD National Youth Summit, MADD Sfudenf Acfivisf Training,
UNITY, SADD, and PRIDE);
State coalitions organized by the American Medical Association to reduce
underage drinking; and
The United Way's Regional Youth/Adult Substance Abuse Project in Bridgeport,
Connecticut.
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Part V: Community-Based Responses and Initiatives
Background of the Discussion
The community-based responses and initiatives group identified current practice 2r,d
knowledge regarding the ways in which communities have focused on aicohol outiets
and availability as � way of addressing crime retated to aicohot abuse.
In contrast with some initiatives related to alcohol abuse and crime which focus upon
prevention, treatment, and rehabilitation approaches directed toward individual users of
alcohol, this group focused upon alcohol abuse in specific geographic areas or
communities. Typically, these initiatives involve the active participation of community
members and collaboration among various stakeholders including merchants, alcohol
beverage controt (ABC) regulatory bodies, and law enforcement. They may also use
mapping techniques to identify the location of alcohol outlets in relation to the
incidence and prevalence of certain types of crime as a way of defining alcohol-related
crime probtems.
Current Responses
The experience-based and research-based knowledge represented in the group was
extensive. The group's discussions highlighted some ofi this knowledge, and provided
an overview of the process of developing and maintaining a community-based
response or initiative to address alcohol-related crime.
The members of the group examined and reviewed the problems and issues in the
communities with which they were familiar that led to the creation of organized
community efforts to address alcohol abuse and crime. These included alarming
numbers of increasingly violent crimes, public drunkenness, extremely high rates of
protective custody related to public drunkenness, high rates of alcohol outlets per
capita, sales of alcohol fo minors and intoxicated persons, frequent instances of driving
under the influence, a lack of community and police cooperation, a lack of an ability to
control the issuance of alcohol beverage distribution permits, cultural discrimination, a
lack of treatment programs (particularly for women and adolescents), and widespread
unemployment.
There was some discussion regarding the extent to which problems and the solutions
to them vary across communities. Some members of the group felt that the problems—
especially related to alcohol distribution—were quite similar from community to
community, and that the models for successful intervention were well-documented and
well-known. Other members of the group felt that the problems were quite different
from community to community and that there were different solutions appropriate to
those different communities—probably with some common elements.
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There did seem to be agreement, however, that there is a common "process° across
communities that couid be emulated in a wide range of situations and settings. This
process includes bringing key stakeholders to the tabie to coliaborate on problem
definition and the development of solutions; the use of the alcohol beverage control
(ABC) regulatory mechanism as a crime prevention tool; the use of data—particularly
mapping of alcohol outlets and crime—as a powerful tool in defining problems and
solutions; and ways.of ensuring substantive community involvement. There also
seemed to be consensus in the group that the foilowing stakeholders should atways be
included in the development process of any community-based Yesponse or initiative:
law enforcement; alcoholic beverage control agencies; hospitality industry members;
afcohol producers, whotesalers, and retailers; neighborhood representatives; tocal
elected officiafs from all affected jurisdictions; crime analysts; and researchers.
Some of fhe specific responses and toois that the communities represented in the
group developed as parts of their overall solutions include: the closing of selected
alcohol outlets on Sundays, the strict enforcement of alcoholic beverage control
regu(ations, sobriety cF�eckpoinfs, vicfim impacf panefs, community policing, tinking the
efForts of police and state alcohol beverage control agencies, the closing of drive-up
alcohol outlets, and an increase in alcohol excise taxes.
There is exfensive documentation of these responses in the literature, including the
evaluations of community prevention trials funded by the National Institute on Alcohol
Abuse and Alcoholism and in the efforts of the ParEnership for Responsibte Hospifalify.
The NAPRH is a voluntary alliance of trade and professional associations, government
agencies, and related organizations developing safe communities and healthy
businesses through the promotion of responsible hospitafity princip(es and pracfices.
Members are unifed by the common goa�s of providing information, sharing resources,
and serving as models for states and local communities creating similar alliances.
Targets for Change
When asked to summarize the major issues that they were addressing, the members of
the group identifed the following:
The reduction of alcohof-related crime at the community level is an achievable
goal;
Communities should belmust be empowered to act to reduce alcohol-related
crime, particularly with respect to the reguiation of alcohol outlets and
advertising; and
Communities need information about what works.
While the group agreed that there is a good deal of experience and knowledge to build
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upon in this area, they identified several issues and problems that their
recommendations would address. These inciude:
• The need to document, evaluate, and research current community-based efforts
so that other communities can build upon what has already been leamed;
• • The need to institutionalize fhe innovations that have emerged in communities
working on these issues; and
• The need to change community norms fo reinforce prevention efForts at the
. community level.
- Recommendations
" The group developed a set of recommendations that reflect participants' judgements
-- about actions that the Office of Justice Programs might take to further the goal of
- substantive community involvement in addressing crime that is related to alcohoi
- abuse. The recommendations feli into severaf areas:
• Advice about "What Works;"
• Program Initiatives;
• Research, Evaluation, and Knowledge Dissemination;
• Training;
• Technicai Assistance;
• Economic Strategies;
• Funding; and
• Leadership.
Advice About "What Works"
As a prelude to the recommendatians sbout the specific actions which OJP might wish
to pursue, the group discussed the lessons that had emerged from their own
experiences, and what they would like to communicate to OJP and other participants at
the symposium. Taken together, this experience provides advice to OJP about how
and why community initiatives can begin to prevent a�cohoi-related crime and its
consequences.
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The group used the specific lessons they have leamed from their own experiences as
the basis for their recommendations in this section.
• Stafe (and (ocal) a(coho(ic beverage confrot agencies can be seen and used as
insfcuments for crime prevention,
• Partnerships across organizational lines at all levels—local, state, nationai and in
Indian Country—are important to all effective efforts.
• At the comrriunity level, residents, law enforcement, alcoholic beverage control
enforcement, local retailers, members of the hospitality industry, and others must
work together to define problems and develop solutions.
• Community-based efforts that are culturally and gender sensitive and competent
are esse�tial.
• Community-based efforts that allow communities to assess their own individual
needs and to create plans to address those needs are essential.
• The alcohol industry—manufacturers, wholesalers, and retailers—should be
encouraged fo be part of fhe diatogue on this issue and to be part of efforts to
address the problem.
• The use of crime mapping technology can be helpful to alcoholic beverage
control agencies where licensing commissions are willing to limit the number and
size of alcohol outlets.
• The practical experiences offered by this work group are very valuable. The
initiatives and responses about which they are familiar are represenfative of
some of fhe best so(utions that exist for an array of alcoho(-related crime
problems. The development, implementation, and evaluation of new community
responses and initiatives must be based upon model programs and new
research.
Program Inifiatives
A large number of recommendations offered to OJP by this group relate to specific
program initiatives which OJP might support through its funding, program design, and
knowledge dissemination activities.
Zhe participants felt that OJP should under take community-based initiatives that
empower local communities to focus on alcohol availability, advertising, and
driving under the influence of alcohol. These initiatives must be sensitive to
issues of culture and gender, and should be based upon research and science.
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_ The participants emphasized that all initiatives should include multiple
stakeholders (i.e., community residents, law enforcement, alcohol beverage
-= control regulatory bodies, retailers, researchers, etc.).
• One way to view community initiatives in this area is as attempts fo change the
- culture of communities regarding alcohol use. 8ecause such change takes
- place gradually, it is not always possible for OJP-funded initiatives to be
planned, developed, implemented, and evaluated during a single fiederal funding
- cycle. The participants encouraged OJP to consider ways in which it might
� support change over time, perhaps by sequentiat funding of the phases of such
an effort to allow 4or pianning, community education, implementation, and
evaluation.
• State legisiatures and alcohol beverage controi regulatory bodies should be
- encouraged to support model programs and empower communities to more
-� effectively regulate aicohoi sales, advertising, and availability.
-- • OJP should undertake such an initiative(s) in Indian Country that provide for
tribal involvement and is designed to competentiy address the culturai
dimensions of alcohol abuse in Indian Country.
• More rehabii'itation resources shouid be avaifabie for communities.
• Fund longer term, comprehensive treatment services that are proven by
research to be effective.
• Place initiatives firmly in the contexts that this group highlighted—poverty,
cultural discrimination, and racism.
• Fund local communities in order to address the possible over-concentration of
alcohol outlets in high crime areas.
- �. Communities shouid focus upon offering alternatives to alcohol use that would
meet community needs as aicohoi use and related crime decrease (i.e., sports
_ programs for young people, respite care for parents, etc.).
• Conduot a community-based initiative within the context of a mu4ti-site urban
neighborhood demonsfration/evaluation pro}ect.
• Characteristics of an effort to develop and increase the effectiveness of
community-based initiatives include:
Weaving research on current community programs into ongoing, related,
and new initiatives in communities;
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► Allowing a one year to 18 month planning period to invoive stakeholders;
► Identifying high risk areas in the United States through a review of the
incidence and prevalence of alcohol-related crimes;
► Identifying existing community coalitions in those high risk areas;
► Supporting the development of commu�ity coalitions where none exist
and fF�eir continuation where they do exist; and
► Supporting regional forums on a(cohol and crime on an annual basis.
Training
The group made severat recommendations regarding OJP's support of training efforts.
Train interested court officials on options for promoting effective community
programs.
Train interested courticommunity officials to increase community awareness of
alcohol-related crime problems.
Include an emphasis on alcohol issues in the design of all criminal justice
training (i.e., police, corrections, etc.) sponsored by OJP.
Provide fraining and direction fo law enforcement wit(� the goal of effectively
partnering with a(coho(ic beverage contro( agencies on enforcemenf issues.
Technica! Assistance
The group offered two recommendations involving how technical assistance might be
used to further OJP's activities in this area.
_. �._� _.__•_ �__w Prov_ide culturally_sensi#iv_e technical assistance to communities who are working
to reduce alcohol-related crime.
Provide technical assistance to communities who are interested in promoting the
closing of problem liquor outlets (or limit proliferation of outlets) and in banning
(iquor bi(Iboards that might be seen by young people.
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- Part VI: Research, Evaluation, and Knowledge Dissemination
= - Overview
A pervasive theme throughout the symposium and across all working groups was the
need to develop and disseminate knowledge on. the nature of alcohol abuse and crime
� and on effective policy and program responses. The beginning of this part of the report
identifies recurcent, research refated themes from across alf four working groups. The
- remainder of this part highlights specific research needs and topics that arose within
each working group.
Developing Knowledge on "What Works"
Each of the four groups identified as a priority the development of sound evaluation
research on cur�ent interventions to create a more comp(ete understanding of the
approaches and programs which are most effective in addressing alcohol-related crime
__ probiems in diverse cultural settings.
Disseminating Existing Information on "What Works"
:: Each of the four groups asserted that existing research knowledge is not easily
available or accessible to those who develop policy and programs to address these
issues--particularly at the state and locai level. There is a strong desire to understand
� °what works° with respect to domestic violence, offender interventions, underage
aicohoi use, and community initiatives. The four groups recommended that OJP:
Promote and market research about what works and about best practices
through the Internet, the use of video formats, and more extensive publications;
Translate the results of research into "user-friendly" fiormats in addition to their
publication in the research liferature; and
Develop a clearing house specifically on alcoholic beverage control issues.
Collaboration between Researchers and Practitioners
A third area of agreement that emerged across the groups was the need for
researchers and practitioners to form partnerships. As researchers begin to
understand more cleariy the context of interventions, the needs that practitioners have
for information, and the goals of interventions, their research efforts will become more
targeted to practitioner needs and, hopefully, more useful to practitioners. Similarly, as
practitioners communicate more directly with researchers, they wilf be able to provide
better information for research purposes and will benefit from sigorous thinking about
defining p�ogram outcomes.
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All four g�oups recommended that OJP:
Support research and evaluation that inc(udes the collaboration between the
researchers and practitioners as part of its design;
• Support research that specifically involves communities who are implementing
the interventions to be studied or evaluated; and
Collaborate with other federa( agencies who fund research on differenf aspeefs
of alcohol abuse and crime should, themselves, collabarate to develop a better
understanding of this complex problem.
Research within Different Cultural Contexts
All of the groups identified knowledge gaps in their particular areas and recommended
specific areas that need further investigation. Topics varied widely across all four
groups, every one of the groups identified Yhe need for knowledge development about
atcohol-related crime within specific cultural contexts. Gollectively the four groups
strongly conveyed the sense that whatever the limits of our existing knowledge about
alcohol-related crime in the majority culture, they pale in comparison with our lack of
knowledge about afcohol-related crime within Native American, Nafive American, and
Hispanic cuitures, tn order to address these research needs, the four groups
recommended that OJP:
• Conduct ethnographic and qualitative research to understand the variable.
impact which alcohol abuse and crime has in certain cultural contexts;
• Develop better research tools and methods to reach under-represented,
immigrant, and other populations who are not being reached by currenf research
methods;
• Pursue research specifically designed to assess the impact of alcohol policy on
vio(ence in communifies generally, buf especially within communifies in Indian
Country; and
• Develop research programs that examine the relationship of community contexts
(i.e., racism, cultural discrimination, poverty, political and personal
powerlessness) to alcohol-related crimes.
Research Methods
Participants at the symposium articulated a number of recommendations about
research strategy and methods. Members of the working group of effective
interventions for offender populations encouraged:
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The use of experimental designs; and
= • The support of long-term studies to measure the impact of treafinent among
offender populations.
Research Recommendations from the Working Group on the Roie of Aicohcf in
Domestic �olence and ifs Implications for Criminal JusEice lnterventions .
Participants emphasized that basic research is needed regarding the complex
relationship between atcohol abuse and domestic violence, as wetl as the impact which
botfi alcohol treatment and bafterers interventions—alone and 'sn combination—have
upon victim safety. The positive impact of treatment on violent crime in generai
appears to be fairly well established through existing research. It is not clear, however,
whether this research is generalizable to intimate violence.
This particular recommendation is critical because of the anecdotal information which
suggests that during the ear{y stages o4 alcohof treatment for domestic violence
offenders the risk of viofence (physicai and non-physicai) and coercion may actually
increase. This has obvious implications for victim safety. '
Yet anothe� dimension of this compfex set of issues, is the degree to which alcohol
treatment for the victims of domestic violence may actually increase their risk of re-
victimization. fVlany chemically dependent victims leave substance abuse treatment in
response to the increased danger or are othervvise unabie to compiy with treatment
demands because of the obstacles constructed by their partners.
Other recommended research topics included:
• The epidemiology of vio{ence against women in al{ forms through the life span;
� Pre-intervention and root problems as a pre-requisite to designing interventions;
• EfFective assessment strategies;
• Domestic viofence and substance abuse deve{opmentai issues re{ating to young
women and teens;
• Differences and similarities between illicit drug use and domestic violence, and
alcohol use and domestic violence;
• The impact of community invoivement in domestic violence and alcohol
intervention programs—both through process and outcome evaivations;
• The impact of managed care on services for both domestic violence and alcohoi
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abuse; and
Prevention oriented research on the inter-generational nature of domestic
violence and aicohol.
Research Recommendations from the Working Group on Effecfive Offender
Interventions
Perhaps the most aignificant outcome of the discussion on offender interventions was a
recognition of a lack of consensus about what constitutes acceptable treatment
standards for this populafion. Specific recommendations for research topics which the
group felt should be pursued in this area are:
• Scientifically-based assessment tools for alcohol abuse screening, risk
� assessment related to alcohol abuse, and diagnosis;
• Effective treafinent and inferventions, botfi short and long term, for drunk drivers;
• The effects of combining treatment and sanctions when intervening with
offenders; and
• Alcoho( abuse and crime in proportion to its importance as a drug of abuse—
which is significant, and greater than many drugs of abuse which we research
extensively.
l2esearch Recommendations from the Working Group on the Underage Use of
Alcohol
The participants i� this group asserted that OJP should support and promote research
on:
• The impacts of ail policies and initiatives developed and implemented at the
stafe or (ocal level fo address fhe underage use of alcohol and its negative
consequences (in the form of empirical evaluations);
• The use of the empirical evaluations to inform policy development;
• The effects of alcohol advertising on underage persons;
• Topics in both basic and applied studies over both the short and long term;
• The relationship between underage illicit drug use and the underage use of
alcohoF,
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'= • The prevalence of alcohol-related victimization among youth;
• The determinants (including psychiatric comorbidity) ot drinking pattems among
youth; .
• The effectiveness of alt initiatives and policies on minorify communities before
broad implementation efforfs occur,
• How alcohol problems lead to and develop from other sociat and psychoiogicai
probfems in underage persons;
- • The forms of communication that influence the way that underage persons who
use alcohol act; and
• Alcohol as a cause and correlate of delinquency.
Research Recommendations from the Working Group on Community-Based
: _- Responses aod lnitiatives
The participants in this group agreed that research and evaluation on alcohol abuse
_ and crime should be vigorously pursued by the Office of Justice Programs. 7he group
encouraged OJP to support and promote research which:
• �ocuses on the eva{uation of initiatives that involve community-based,
collaborative approaches which link alcoholic beverage control agencies, law
enforcement, community and neighborhood representatives, merchants, the
-- hospitality industry, and others in crime prevention efforts;
• Identifies patterns of drinking that are most closely associated with crime and
then work to effectively address that 1ink;
• Focuses on communities that have already demonstrated some promise and that
are being funded by OJP agencies;
• Focuses on the evaluation of initiatives in communities who have undertaken
aicohol-refated crime reduction strategies on their own, rather than ones created
by outside intervention; and
• Focuses on cross-site evaluations of communities and on outcomes where
possible.
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Appendix 1
NAT/ONAL SYMPOS/UM ON
ALCOHOL ABUSE AND CR/ME
Convened by fhe
Office of Justice Programs
U.S. Department of Justice
Hyatf Regency Washington on Capifol Hill
April5-7, 1998
SYMPOS(UM AGENDA
Sunday, April 5, 1998
3:00 p. m. - 7:30 p. m.
Registration
Ticonderoga WaII
4:00 p.m. - 4:15 p.m. Welcome and Opening
Yorktown
Assistant Attomey General Laurie Robinson
4:15 p.m. - 5:15 p.m. Plenary Session l: Sefting the Framework for Discussion
Yorktown
Panel Moderator: Shay Bilchik, Administrator, O�ce of
Juvenile Justice and Delinquency
Prevention, O�ce of Justice Programs,
U.S. Department of Justice
Speakers:
♦ Enoch Gordis, M.D., Director,
National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and
Alcoholism, Bio/ogical/Psychosocial
Perspective
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♦ Robin G. W. Room, Ph.D., Vice
President, Addiction Research
Foundation, Ontario, Canada, Cultural
and Anthropological Perspective
♦ Susan Cameron, Ph.D., College.of
Education, University of New Mexico,
American lndian Perspective
5:15 p.m. - 5:45 p.m. Interactive Discussion with Panelists
� Yorktown
5:45 p.m. - 6:15 p.m. Working Groups; Introductions and Expectations
Yorktown
Symposium Moderator: Honorable Joanne Smith, Ramsey
County Court, St. Paul, Minnesota
6:15 p.m. - 7:30 p.m.
Reception
Congressiona/ A
Monday, April 6, 1998
7:00 a.m. - 6:00 p.m.
8:00 a.m. - 8:30 a.m.
Registration
Trconderoga Wa/l
Continental Breakfast
Yorkfown
8:30 a.m. - 8:35 a.m. Call to Order
Review of Symposium Themes
Yorktown
Symposium Moderator: Honorable Joanne Smith
8:35 a.m. - 9:30 a.m. Plenary Session II: ldentifying the lssues—Crime and Alcohol
Abuse
Yorktown
Panel Moderator: Jeremy Travis, Director, National
Institute of Justice, O�ce of Justice
Programs, U.S. Department of Justice
Speakers:
♦ Andrew McGuire, Executive Director,
� The Trauma Foundation and Pacific
Center for Violence Prevention, Review
of Prevenfion Issues and Initiatives
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9:30 a.m. - 9:55 a.m.
9:55 a.m. -10:00 a.m.
♦ Brenda Mitter, Ph.D. Acting Director
Research lnstitute on Addictions,
Impact on �ctims, Domestic Violence
Perspective
♦ Robert Nash Parker, Ph.D., Director,
Robert Presley Center for Crime and
Justice Studies, University of Califomia,
Review of What We Know About the
Relationship Between Crime and
Alcohol Abuse.
Interactive Discussion with Panelists
Yorktown
Introduction to Working Groups
Yorkfown
Symposium Moderator: Honorab)e Joanne Smith
■ The Role of Alcohol in Domestic Violence and /ts
Implicafions for Criminal Justice lnterventions
Chair: Katia Garrett, Attorney Advisor, Violence
Against Women Grants O�ce, Office of Justice
Programs, U.S. Department of Justice
■ Effective Interventions for Offender Populations
Chair: Stephen Amos, Deputy Director, Corrections
Program O�ce, Office of Justice Programs, U.S.
Department of Justice
■ Communify Based Responses and Initiatives
Chair: Thomas Feucht, Direcfor, Crime Control
Division, Nationa! Institute of Justice, Office of Justice
Programs, U.S. Department of Justice
The Underage Use ofA/coho/
Chair: Gina Wood, Director, Concentration of
Federal Efforts Program, Office of Juvenile Justice
and Delinquency Prevention, O�ce of Justice
Programs, U.S. Department of Justice
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10:00 a.m. -10:15 a.m.
10:15 a.m. -12:30 p.m.
12:30 p.m. -12:45 p.m.
12:45 p.m. - 3:00 p.m.
1:15 p.m. - 1:25 p.m.
Break
Refreshments served in the Hal! of Baft/es
Working Groups: Defning Problems and Issues
The Working Group on The Ro% of Alcoho! in Domestic
�o%nce and Its /mplications for Criminai Justice
/nterventions wiil meet in the Columbia Foyer.
The Wodcing Group on Efifecfive /nterventions for
OffenderPopu/ations will meet in the Regency Foyer.
The Working Group on Communify Based Responses
and /nitiatives will meet in Bunker Hill.
The Working Group on The Underage Use ofA(coho/will
meet in Columbia C.
Break
Lunch and Ptenary Session llt: Current Criminal Justice
Responses
Yorkfown
Associate Attorney General Raymond Fisher will provide
welcoming remarks.
1:25 p.m. - 2:45 p.m. Panel Moderator: Nancy Gist, Director, Bureau of Justice
Assistance, Office of Justice Programs,
United States Department of Justice
Speakers:
♦ Leo Nayden, Executive Director,
Corrections Options Programs, TASC,
Inc., lnterventions for Offenders within
the Correctionai Sysfem
♦ Harold Hotder, Ph.D., Director,
Prevention Research Center,
Pacific Institute for Research and
Evafuaiion, Prevention and
Infervenfion in the Community
♦ Honorable J. Michael Kavanaugh,
Albuquerque Metropolitan Court, Court
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Interventions with DWI Offenders
♦ David J. Mactas, Vice President,
Hazeiden Recovery Services of New
York, Alcohol and Substance Abuse
Treatment Overview of Practice and
Effecfiveness
A
2:45 p.m. - 3:00 p.m.
Interactive Discussion with Panel Members
Yorktown
3:00 p.m. -3:15 p.m.
3:15 p.m. - 5:00 p.m.
5:00 p.m. - 5:15 p.m.
Break
Refreshments served in the Hall of Battles
Working Groups: Current Responses and their
Effectiveness
The Working Group on The Ro/e of Alcohol in Domestic
Violence and lts lmplications for Criminal Justice
lnterventions will meet in the Columbia Foyer.
The Working Group on Etfecfive lnferventions for
OffenderPopulations will meet in the Regency Foyer.
7he Working Group on Community Based Responses
and Initiatives will meet in Bunker Hill.
The Working Group on The Urtderage Use ofA/cohol will
meet in Columbia C.
Break
5:15 p.m. - 6:00 p.m. Plenary Feedback
Yorktown
Symposium Moderator: Honorabie Joanne Smith
Tuesday, Apr+17, 9998
7:30 a.m. - 11:00 a.m.
8:00 a.m. - 8:30 a.m.
Registration
Trconderoga Wall
Continental Breakfast
Capitol Room Wa/l
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8:30 a.m. - 9:00 a.m. Ptenary Session IV: Charge to Working Graups-
Developmenf of Recommendations
Capito! Room
Symposium Moderator. Honorable Joanne Smith
9:00 a.m. -10:55 a.m. Working Groups: Development of Recommendations
(Please note that some locations for the working groups are
different on Tuesday than they were on Monday.)
The Working Group on The Ro% of Afcohol in Domesfic
�o%nce and /ts /mp/ications for Crimina/ Justice
lnterventions will meet in Congressional A.
The Working Group on Effective /nterventions for
OffenderPopu/ationswill meet in Concord.
The Working Group on Community Based Responses
and /nitiatives wilt meet in Bunker Hill.
The Working Group on The Underage Use ofA/cohol will
meet in Lexingfon.
11:00 a.m. -1:00 p.m. Registration
Capitol Room Wa/l
11:00 a.m. -1:00 p.m. Plenary Session V: Report ofWorking Groups and Close
. , Capitol Room
,. Symposium Moderator: Honorable Joanne Smith
% At�omey General Janet Reno will attend a portion of fhe
, closing Plenary session to hear the Working Groups'
preliminary recommendations.
Karol Kumpfer, Director, Center for Substance Abuse
Prevention will provide preliminary comments on the
recommendations.
Assistant Attomey General Laurie Robinson will close
the Symposium.
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Appendix 2
NATIONAL SYMPOSIUM ON
ALCOHOL ABUSE AND CRIME
Convened by the
Office of Justice Programs
U.S. Department of Justice
Hyatt Regency Washington on Capitol Hil1
April5-7, 1998
PARTICIPANT LIST
Leslie Acoca
Director
Women and Girls Institute
National Council Crime
and Delinquency
685 MarKet Street, Suite 620
San Francisco, CA 94105
Phone: (415) 896-6223
Fax: (415) 896-5109
Track: The Role of Alcohol in
Domestic Violence and its
Impffcations for Crimina{ dustice
Interventions
Monica Alexander
Crime Analyst
Charlotte-Mecklenburg
Police Department
601 E. Trade Street
Charlotte, NC 28202
Phone: (704) 336-8783
Fax: (704) 336-7799
Email: pdmla@mail.charmeck.nc.us
Track: Community Based
Responses and Initiatives
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Stephen Amos -
Deputy Director
Corrections Program Office
Office of Justice Programs
810 7fh Street, IVW
Washington, DC 20531
Phone: (202) 616-5970
Fax: (202) 307-2994
Track: Effecfive fnterventions for
Offender Populations
Karen Arfichoker
Executive Director
Sacred Circle
- - National Resourse Center
~ 722 St. Joseph Sfreet
= Rapid City, SD 57701
-� Phone: (605) 341-2050
Fax: (605j 341-2472
= Track: The Role of Alcohol in
-. Domestic Violence and its
Implications for Criminal Justice
Interventions
David Atkins
Heaffh Care Adminstrator
Indian Health Service
5300 Homestead Rd NE
Albuquerque, NM 87i 10
Phone: (505) 248-4444
Fax: (505) 248-4129
Email: datkins@smtp.his.gov
Track: Effecfive Inferventions for
Offender Populations
Judith Audet
Citizen Volunteer
8707 Sudbury Place
Alexandria, VA 22309
Phone: (703} 360-6079
Fax: (202) 514-7805
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Gene Bames
District Administrator
Alcoholic Beverage Control
9350 Front Street, Room 5056
San Diego, CA 921Q1
Phone: (619) 525-4603
Fax: (619) 231-1171
Track: Community Based
Responses and Initiatives
Marlene Beckman
Special Counsel to the Assistant
Affomey General
Office of Justice Programs
U.S. Department of Justice
810 7th Street, NW
Washington, DC 20531
Phone: (202) 616-3562
Fax: (202) 514-7805
Shay Bilchik �
Administrator
Office af Juvenile Justice and
Delinquency Prevention
U.S. Department of Justice
810 7th Street, NW
Washington, DC 20531
Phone: (202) 307-5911
Fax: (202) 307-2093
Patricia Bland
Trainer
Providence Health System/New
Beginnings
600 University #1200
Seattle, WA 98101
Phone: (206) 320-8174
Fax: (206) 320-3001
Email: PBLAND@PMCPROXY.ORG
Track: The Role of Alcohol in
Domestic �olence and ifs
Implications for Criminal Justice
Interventions
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Anekia 8oatwright
1821 Dexter Street
Savannah, GA 31401
Phone: (803)777-0695
Fax: (803) 777-0677
Track: URderage Use of Alcohol
(van BoweKaty,
Criminal investigafor
Sureau of indian Affairs
Office of Law Enforcement Services
PO Box 66
Albuquerque, NM 87103
Phone: (505) 248-7937
Fax: (505) 248-7095
Track: Underage Use of Alcohol
Noel Brennan
Deputy Assisfant Atfomey General
Office of Justice Programs
U.S. Department of Justice
810 7"' Street, NW
Washington, DC 20531
Phone: (202) 307-5933
Fax: (202) 594-7805
Daniel Brookoff
Associate Director
Medical Education
Methodist Health System
1525 Carr Avenue
Peggy B. Burke
Senior Associate
Center for Effective Public Policy
8403 Colesviile Road, Suite 720
Silver Spring, MD 20910
Phone: (301) 589-9383
Fax: (301) 589-3505
Track Community Based
Responses and Initiatives
William Butynski
Director of Policy
Substance Abuse Prevention and
Policy Center
9508 Biltmore Drive
Silver Spring, MD 20901
Phone: (301) 588-0128
Fax: (301) 587-7752
Track: Underage Use of Alcohol
Susan Cameron
University of New Mexico
College of Educat+on
Simpson tiall #119
Albuquerque, NM 87131
Phane: (505) 277-4535
Fax: (5d5) 277-8361
Track: Community Based
Responses and Initiatives
Dale Campbell
Memphis, TN 38104 Director
Phone: (901) 726-8785 Native American Programs
Fax: (901) 726-8254 DISMAS Charities, Inc.
Track: The Role of Alcohol in P.O. Box 85033
Domestic Violence and its Tucson, AZ 85754-5033
Implications for Criminai Justice Phone: (520) 546-5897
Interventions Fax: (520) 546-5897
Track: Effective tnteroentions for
, Offender Populations
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Sharon Cantelon
Program Manager
Office of Juvenile Justice and
Delinquency Prevention
Offce of Justice Programs
U.S: Department of Justice
810 7th Street, NW
Washington, DC 20531
Phone: (202) 616-3658
Fax: (202) 514-6382
Email: sharie@ojp.usdoj.gov
Track: Underage Use of Alcohol
-- Constance Carley
: Regional Coordinator
Oregon Commission on Children
- � and Families
� 530 Center Street NE Suite 300
Salem, OR 97310
Phone: (503) 373-1570
Fax: (503) 378-8395
Track: Underage Use of Alcohol
Madeline Carter
Senior Associate
Center for Effective Public Policy
8403 Co(esville Road, Suite 720
Silver Spring, MD 20910
Phone: (30f ) 589-9383
Fax: (301) 589-3505
Track: Underage Use of Alcohol
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Nita Carter
Technical Assistance Manager
National Resource Center on
Dorpestic Abuse
6400 Flank Drive, Suite 1300
Harrisburg, PA 17112
Phone: (800) 537-2238
Fax: (717) 545-9456
Track: The Role of Alcohol in
Domestic Violence and its
Implications for Criminal Justice
Interventions
Paul Casagrande
Program Manager
Executive Office for Weed and Seed
U.S. Department of Justice
810 7"' Street, NW, 6�' Floor
Washington, DC 20531
Phone: (202) 616-9354
Fax: (202) 616-1159
Track: Underage Use of Alcohol
Jan Chaiken
Director
Bureau of Justice Statistics
U.S. Department of Justice
810 7"' Street, NW, 2" Floor
Washington, DC 20009
Phone: (202) 307-0765
Fax: (202) 307-5846
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Nancy Chase
Public Heaith Advisor
Center for Substance Abuse
Prevention
5600 Fishers Lane, Suite 800,
Rockwall II
Rockvilte, MD 20857
Phone: (301) 443-9938
Fax: (301) 443-5592
Email: nchase@samhsa.gov
Track: Community Based
Responses and Initiatives
Andrew Chishom
ProfessorlDirector
Southem Region Vo{ence and
Substance Abuse Prevention Center
Institute of Public Affairs, USC
Columbia, SC 29208
Phone: (803) 777-0695
Fax: (803) 777-0677
Track: Underage Use of Alcohol
Patrick Coleman
Resident Praetitionec
Bureau of Justice Assistance
O�ce of Justice Programs
U.S. Deparfinent of Justice
810 7fh Street, NW
Washington, DC 20531
Phone: (202) 616-0313
Fax: (202) 305-2542
Email: colemanp@ojp.usdoj.gov
Janna Cooper
Program Manager
National Association of Drug
Court Professionals
901 N. Pitt Street, 3uite 370
Alexandria, VA 22314
Phone: (703) 706-0576
Fax: (703) 706-0577
Track: Community Based
Responses and Initiatives
James Copple
Director
Coalition, State, and Field Services
National Crime Prevention Council
1700 K Street, NW
Washington, DC 20006
Phone: (202) 466-6272
Fax: (202) 296-1356
Email: jcopple@ncpc.org
Track: Underage Use of Alcohol
Cabetl Cropper
Executive Director
National Criminal Justice
Association
444 North Capitol Street, NW
Washington, DC 20001
Phone: (202) 624-1440
Fax: (202) 508-3859
Track: Effective Interventions for
Offender Populations
Maureen Da(bec
Director of Research
The Century Council
1201 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW
Washington, DC 20004
Phone: (202) 661-4701
Fax: (202) 661-4711
Email: mdalbec@centurycouncil.org
Track: Community Based
Responses and Initiatives
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Mike Dalich
Chief of Staff
O�ce of Justice Programs
U.S. Department of Justice
810 7"' Street, NW
Washington, DC 20531
Phone: 202-307-5933
Fax: 202-514-Z805
Johnnetta Davis
Deputy Director
American Medical Association
515 North Sfafe Sfreef, 8th Floor
Chicago, IL 60610
Phone: (312) 464-4168
Fax: (312) 464-4024
Track: Underage Use of Alcohol
Raymond Daw
Executive Director
NW New Mexico Fighting
Back/Na'nizhoozhi Cenfer, (nc.
2205 East Boyd Drive
Gallup, NM 87309
Phone: (505} 722-2177
Fax: (505) 722-5961
Track: Community Based
Responses and fnifiafives
Herman Diesenhaus
Team Leader
Scientific Analysis Team
Center for Substartce
Abuse Treatment
87Q0 Fishers Lane, Rockwall II,
Rockvilie, MD 20857
Phone: (301) 443-6575
Fax: (30'! ) 480-3144
Track: The Role of Rtcohoi in
Domestic Volence and its
lmplications for Criminal Justice
Interventions
Bonnie Duran
Assistant Professor
University of New Mexico
2400 Tucker NE #947
Albuquerque, NM 87131
Phone: (505) 272-4194
Fax: (505) 272-4494
Track: The Role of Alcohol in
Domestic Violence and its
!mplications for Criminal Justice
(nterventions
Robert Denniston
Director
- Health and Human Services
� Secretary's Initiative on Youth
Substance Abuse Prevenfion
SAMHSA
5600 Fishers Lane, Rockwall II,
Room 900
Rockvi!!e, MD 20857
Phone: (301) 443-2188
Fax: (301) 443-7072
Email: rdennist@samhsa.gov
Eduardo Duran
Directar
Behavioral Health Services
First Nation's Community
Heaith Source
4100 Silver S.E.
Albuquerque, NM 87908
Phone: (505) 262-2489
Fax:(505)262-0781
Track: The Role of Alcoho! in
Domestic Violence and its
Implications for Criminal Justice
Interventions
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Hedy Emery
Healthy Nafions
Commun'sty Organizer
Northwest New Mexico Fighting
Back, inc.- Heaifhy Nations
PO Box 5781 �
Farmington, NM 87499
Phone: (505) 368-7450
Fax: (505) 368-5582
Track: Community Based
Responses and Initiatives
Patricia Fauone
Assisfant Professor
Kansas University Medical Center
390't Rainbow Stvd
Kansas City, KS 66160-7502
Phone: (913} 588-1656
Fax: (913) 588-1660
Track: The Role of Alcohol in
Domestic Violence and its
lmplications for Criminal Justice
Interventions
Thomas Feucht
Director
Crime Control and Prevention
Division
Nafional Institute of Justice
U.S. Department of dusfice
810 7th Street, NW
Washington, DC 20531
Phone: (202) 307-2949
Fax: (202) 305-8622
Emai�: feucht@ojp.usdoj.gov
Track: Community Based
Responses and Initiatives
t
Nikki Finch
National SADD Student of the Year
Students Against
Destructive Decisions
PO Box 60022
Taitahassee, FL 32313
Phone: (850) 853-2744
Fvc (850) 561-1405
EmaiL
Faith N_Jesus@Rocketmaif.com
Track: Underage Use of Alcohoi
Raymond Fisher
Associate Attomey General
U.S. Department of Justice
950 PennsylVania Avenue, NW,
Room 5214
Washington, DC 20531-0001
Phone: (202) 514-9500
Fax: (202) 514-0238
Nora Fitzgerald
Research Analyst
ADAM Program
Nationaf tnstitufe of Justice
U.S. Departmenf of Justice
810 7th Street, NW
Washington, DC 20531
Phone: (202) 305-1547
Fax: (202) 616-0275
Email: fitzgera@ojp.usdoj.gov
Track: Community Based
Responses and 4nitiatives
Lenny Foster
Project Director
Navajo Nation Corrections Project
PO Drawer 709
Window Rock, AZ 86515
Phone: (520) 571-6234
Fax (520) 871-2266
Track: Ef�ective Interventions for
Offender Population
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Katia Garrett
Attomey Advisor
�otenc.� Against Women
Grants Office
Office of Justice Programs
U.S. Department of Justice
810 7th Street, NW, 6th Fioor
Washington, DC 20531
Phone: (202) 616-3580
Fax: (202) 305-2589
Email: garrettk@ojp.usdoj.gov
Track: The Role of Atcohol in
Domestic Violence and its
Implications for Criminal Justice
Interventions
Edward Gondolf
Associate Director of Research
Mid-Atlantic Addiction Training
Insfifufe
245 Hamill Road
Indiana, PA 95705
Phone: (724) 357-4749
Fax: (724} 357-3944
Track: The Role of Alcohol in
Domestic Violence and its
Implications for Criminal Justice
Interventions
Enoch Gordis
Director
�
Matthew Gissen
President
The Village - Partners in Recovery
3180 Biscayne Blvd
_., Miami, FL 33137
Phone: (305) 573-3784
_ Fax: (305) 576-1348
Track: Effective Interventions for
Offender Populafions
Nancy Gist
Director
Bureau of Justice Assistance
Office of Justice Programs
U.S. Department of Justice
810 7th Street, NW
Washington, DC 20531
Phone: (202) 616-6500
National Institute on Alcohol Abuse
and Alcoholism
6000 Executive Blvd. Room 400
Rockville, MD 20892
Phone: (301) 443-3885
Fax: (301) 443-7043
J. Phillip Gossage
Senior Research Scientist
University of New Mexico/ CASAA
23650 Alamo SE
Albuquerque, NM 87106
Phone: (505) 768-0104
Fax: (505) 768-09 9 3
Email: jgossage@unm.edu
Track: Community Based
Responses and lnitiatives
Marcus Grant
President
International Center for Alcohol
Policies
1519 New Hampshire Avenue, NW
Washington, DC 20036
Phone: (202) 986-1159
Fax: (202) 986-2080
Track: Community Based
Responses and Inifiatives
Page 2-8
John Grebert
Chief of Pa[ice
Colonie Police Department
312 Wolf Road
Latham, NY 12110
Phone: (518) 783-2800
Fax: (518} 786-7326
Track: Underage Use of Alcohol
Lawrence Greenfeld
Deputy Director
Bureau of Justice Statistics
U.S. Deparment of Justice
810 7'" Street, NW
Washington, DC 20531
Phone: (202) 61&3281
Fax: (202) 307-5846
Email: larrv(cDoin usdoi nov
John "Jack" Gustafson
Executive Director
National Association of State Alcohol
and Drug Abuse Directors
808 17fh Street, NW Suite 410
Washington, DC 20006
Phone: (202) 293-0090
Fax: (202) 293-1250
Track: Underage Use of Alcohol
George Hacker
Director
Alcohol Policies
Center for Science in the
Public fnterest
1875 Connecticut Avenue, NW,
Suite 30
Washington, DC 2QOQ9-5728
Phone: (202) 332-9110
Fax: (202) 265-4954
Email: ghacker@cspinet.org
Track Underage Use of Alcohol
Lawrence Hauser
Judge
Bridgeport Superior Court
172 Goiden Hiff Street
Bridgeport, CT 06604
Phone: (203) 579-6540
Fax: (2U3} 579-6928
Track: The Ro{e of Alcohol in
Domestic Volence and its
Implications for Criminal Justice
Interventions
Leo Hayden
Executive Director
Corrections Options Programs
TASC
1500 N. Halsted
Chicago, IL 60622
Phone: (312) 573-8370
Fax: (312) 787-9663
Track: Effective Interventions for
Offender Populations
Kerry Healey
Public Policy Consultant
Abt Associates fnc.
10 Curtis Point
Beverly, MA 01915
Phone: (617) 349-2719
�ax: (617) 349-2610
Track: The Role ofi Alcohol in
Domestic Violence and its
lmplications for Criminal Justice
Interventions
Melody Heaps
President
TASC, {nc.
1500 N. Halsted Street
Chicago, IL 60622
Phone: (312) 573-8203
Fax: (312) 787-9663
Track: Effective {nterventions for
OfFender Populations
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Bobby Heard
Director of Programs
Mothers Against Drunk Driving
511 E. John Carpenter Pkwy
Suite 700
Irving, TX 75062
Phone: (214) 744-6230
Fax: (972) 8692207
Track: Underage Use of Aicohol
Norena Henry
Director
American Indian/Alaskan Native
Affairs O�ce
Office of Justice Programs
` U.S. Department of Justice
810 Seventh Street, NW
= Washington, DC 30531
Phone: (202) 6'16-3205
: Fax: (202) 514-7805
- Email: henry@ojp.usdoj.gov
� Track: Underage Use of Alcohol
Bisi Hightower
Program Adminisfrafor
Healthy Start, Inc.
805 Ledlie Street
Pittsburgh, PA 15219
Phone: (412) 247-4009
Fax: (412) 247-0187
Track: The Role of Alcohol in
Domestic Violence and its
Implications for Criminal Justice
Interventions
Ralph Hingson
Professor and Chair
Boston University School of Public
Health
715 Albany Street, TW250
Boston, MA 02118
Phone: (617) 638-5160
Fax: (617) 638-4483
Track: Underage Use of Alcohol
Haroid Holder
Director
Pacific Instifute for Research
and Evaluation
2150 Shatfuck Avenue, Suite 900
Berkeley, CA 94704
Phone: (510) 486-1111
Fax: (510) 644-0594
Track: Community Based
Responses and Initiatives
Cindy Johnson
City Council Member
Lincoln City Council, 555 S. 10th
Lincoln, NE 68508
Phone: (402) 441-7515
Fax: (402) 441-6533
Email: councit@ci.lincoln.ne.us
Track: Community Based
Responses and Initiatives
Claire Johnson
Senior Researcher
National Council on Crime
and Delinquency
1325 G Street, NW, Suite 770
Washington, DC 20005
Phone: (202) 638-0556
Fax: (202) 638-0123
Denise Johnson �
Team Leader
Family and Intimate Violence
Prevention Team
Center for Disease Control
4770 Buford Hwy NE MS K60
Atlanta, GA 30341
Phone: (770) 488-4277
Fax: (770) 488-4349
Track: The Role of Alcohol in
Domestic Violence and its
Implications for Criminal Justice
lnterventions
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PatJohnson
Deputy Director of Medical Research
National Center on Addiction and
Substance Abuse
152 W. 57th Street
New York, NY 10019-3310
Phone: (212) 841-5207
Fax (212)841-5220
Track: Effective Interventions for
Offender Populations
Linda Wolf Jones
Executive Director
Therapeutic Communities of America
1611 Connecticut Avenue, NW,
Suite 46
Washington, DC 20009
Phone: (202) 296-3504
Fax: (202) 518-5475
Track: Effective Interventions for
Offender Populations
Nolan Jones
Director
Human Resources Group
National Governors Association
444 North Capitol Street, NW,
Suite 267
Washington, DC 20001
Phone: (202) 624-5360
Fax: (202) 624-5313
Track: The Role of Alcohol in
Domestic �o{ence and its
Implications for Criminal Justice
Interventions
Girvaud Justice
Community Representative
1512 North McDowell Street
Charlotte, NC 28205
Phone: (704) 376�558
Fax: (704) 376�558
Track: Community Based
Responses and Initiatives
Glenn Karr
Highway Safety Administrator
National Highway Traffic Safety
Administration
400 7"' Street, SW
Washington, DC 20590
Phone: (2d2) 366-0350
Fax: (202) 366 2766
J. Michael Kavanaugh
Chief Judge
Bernalillo County Metropolitan Court
PO Box 133
Albuquerque, NM 87103
Phone: (505) 841-8193
Fax: (505} 841-8192
Track: Effective Interventions for
Offender Populations
Kara King
4539 Robney Drive
Cofumbia, SC 29209
Phone: (803) 777-0695
Fax: (803) 777-0677
Track:_ Underage Use of Alcohoi
Kevin Kfinkerfues
Probation O�cer III
1 st Judicial Disfrict
10745 W. 12th Place
Lakewood, CO 80215
Phone: (303) 271-6393
Fax: (303) 271-6317
Track: Effective Interventions for
Offender Populations
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Mary Koss
Professor of Public Health
University of Arizona
2223 East Speedway Boulevard
Tucson, AZ 85779
Phone: (520) 626-7863
Fax: (520) 318-7226
Track: The Role of Alcohol in
Domestic Violence and its
Implications for Criminal Jusfice
Interventions
Karol Kumpfer
Director
Center for Substance Abuse
Prevention
5600 Fishers Lane, Rockwall fl,
Suite 900
Rockville, MD 20857
Phone: (301) 443-0365
Fax: (301) 443-5447
Sandra Lapham
President
Behavior hiealth Research Center of
the Southwest
_., 4600 "A" Montgomery Blvd. NE,
Albuquerque, NM 87109
" Phone: (505) 830-3099
Fax: (505) 830-3408
Track: Effecfive tntervenfions for
, Offender Populations
Anna Latimer
Executive Director
National Association for Native
American Children of Alcoholics
1402 Third Avenue #1110
Seattle, WA 98101
Phone; (206) 467-7686
Fax: (206) 467-7689
Email: nanacoa(cDnanacor.org
Nancy Owen Lewis
Chief Operating O�cer
Behavioral Heafth Research Cenfer
of the Southwest
4600 "A" Montgomery Blvd NE
Suite 101
Albuquerque, NM 87109
Phone: (505) 830-3099
Fax: (505) 830-3408
Track: Effective Interventions for
Offender Populations
Douglas Lipton
Senior Research Fellow
National Development and Research
Institutes, Inc.
Two World Trade Center, 16th Floor
New York, NY 10048
Phone: (212) 845-4547
Fax: (212) 845-4698
Track: Effective Interventions for
Offender Populations
Patrice Lockhart
Counselor
Colonie Police Department
312 Wolf Road
Latham, NY 12110
Phone: (518) 783-2753
Fax: (518) 786-7326
Track: Underage Use of Alcohol
Laura Ludwig
Deputy Director
Ohio Department of Public Safety
805 Gladden Road
Columbus, OH 43212
Phone: (614) 466-7Q76
Fax: (614) 466-0533
Track: Underage Use of Alcohol
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Rhonda J. Lundborg
Federai Aid Coordinator
Alaska Department ofi Corrections
240 Main Street, Suite 700
Juneau, AK 99801
Phone: (907) 465-4640
Fax: (907) 465-3390
David Mactas
Vice President
Hazelden Recovery Services of
New York
60 East 42nd Street, Suite 1001
New York, NY 10165
Phone: (212) 557�161
Fax: (212) 557-6234
Jay Marshalt
Chief
Comprehensive Programs
Bureau of Justice Assistance
U.S. Department of Justice
810 7th Street, NW
Washington, DG 20531
Phone: (202) 616-3215
Fax: (202) 616-2421
Chris Martin
Deputy Sheriff
Sacramento Sheriff's Department
711 G Street, Room 405
Sacramento, CA 95814
Phone: (916j 874-8401
Fax: (916) 874-5263
Track: Effective Interventions for
Offender Populations
Susan Martin
Health Scientist Administrator
Nationai institute on Afcohol Abuse
and Alcohofism
6000 Executive Bivd
Rockville, MD 20892
Phone: (301) 443-8767
Fax: (301) 443-8774
Email: smartin@willco.niaaa.nih.gov
Track: Underage Use of Alcohol
Joan McCord
Professor
Temple University
623 Broadacres Road
Narberth, PA 19072
Phone: (610) 667�197
Fax: (61 Q) 667-0568
Track: Underage Use of Alcohol
Barbara McCrady
Professor and Clinical Director
Center of Afcohol Studies
Rutgers University
607 Allison Road .
Piscataway, NJ 08854-8001
Phone: (732) 445-0667
Fax: (732) 445-5944
Track: The Role of Alcohof in
Domestic Violence and its
Implications for Criminal Justice
Interventions
Peggy McGarry
Seniot Associate
Certter for Effective Public Po4icy
8403 Colesville Road, Suite 720
Silver Spring, MD 20910
Phone: (301) 589-9383
Fax: (301) 589-3505
Track: The Role of Atcohol in
Domestic Violence and its
lmplications For G�iminal .lustice
Interventions
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Andrew McGuire
Executive Director
Trauma Foundafion
1001 Potrero Avenue, Building 1,
Room 300
- - San Francisco, CA 94110
-- Phone: (445) 821-8209
Fax: (415) 282-2563
- Track: Underage Use of Alcohol
Michael McPhaii
� County and Youth Court Judge
- Forrest County
200 West Pine Street, PO Box 990
Hattiesburg, MS 39403-0190
�� Phone: (601) 545-6075
_ Fax: (601) 545�105
-- Track: Underage Use of Alcohoi
Brenda Miller
Acting Director
Research institute on Addictions
1021 Main Street
Buffalo, NY 14203
Phone: (716) 887-2515
Fax: (716) 887-2252
Track: The Role of Alcohol in
Domestic Violence and its
Implications for Criminal Justice
Interventions
Angela Moore-Parmley
- � National institute of Justice
U.S. Department of Justice
810 7"' Street, NW
` Washington, DC 20531
Phone: (202) 307-0145
Fax: (202) 616-0275
James Mosher
Senior Poticy Advisor
Marin Insfitute
6116 Highway 9, Suite 6A
Felton, CA 95018
Phone: (408) 335-1140
Fax: (408) 335-1141
Track: Underage Use of Alcohol
Femando J, Muniz
Youth Director
Regional Youth/Adult Substance
Abuse Project
75 Washington Avenue
Bridgeport, CT 06604
Phone: (203) 333-3333
Fax: (203) 333-9118
Email: nandomuniz@aol.com
Becki Ney
Senior Associate
Center for Effective Public Policy
32 E. Montgomery Avenue
Hatboro, PA 19040
Phone: (215) 956-2335
Fax: (215) 956-2337
Track: Effective Interventions for
Offender Populations
Robert Nash Parker
Director
Robert Pressley Center for Crime
and Justice Studies
University of California
Riverside, CA 92521
Phone: (909} 757-4604
Fax: (909j 787-7394
Track: Community Based
Responses and Initiatives
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Carolyn Peake
Social Science Anafyst
National {nstitute o4 Justice
U.S. Department of Justice
810 7th Street, NW
Washington, DC 20531
Phone: (202) 616-3234
Fax: (202) 307-6256
Emait: peakec@ojp.usdoj.gov
Albert Antony Pearsall
Chief, West Branch
Bureau of Justice Assistance
U.S. Department of Justice
810 7th Sfreet, NW
Washingfon, DC 20531
Phone: (202) 616-3298
Fax: (202) 305-1367
Emait: �earsatl(rpojn.udoi.aov
Ada Pecos Melton
President
American Indian
Development Associates
2401 12th St, NW
Albuquerque, NM 87104
Phone: (505) 842-1122
Fax: (505) 842-9652
Track: Underage Use of Alcohol
Scott Peterson
Office of Juvenile Justice and
Delinquency Prevention
U.S. Department of Justice
S10 7"' Street, NW, Room 8138
Washington, DC 20531
Phone: (202) 616-2368
Fax: (202) 3Q7-2819
Calvin Red Thunder, Sr.
Correcfional institution Adminstrator
Fort Peck Assiniboine and
Sioux Tribes
Branch of Corrections
PO Box 1027
Poplar, MT 59255
Phone: (406) 768-3406
Fax: {406J 768-344�
Track: Effective interventions for
Offender Populafions
Winifred Reed
Program Manager
National Institute of Justice
810 7"' Street, NW
Washington, DC 20531
Phone: (202) 307-2952
Fax (202) 307-6394
Track: Community Based
Responses and Initiatives
Edward Reina
Chief of Police
Rena-Sparks Indian Colony
1995 East 2nd St�eet
Reno, NV 89502
Phone: (702) 785-8776
Fax: (702) 785-9163
Track: Effective Interventions for
Offender Populatians
Scott Reiner
Substance Abuse Program
Supervisor
Vrginia Department of Juvenile
Justice
PO Box 1110
Richmond, VA 23218-1110
Phone: (804) 371-0720
Fax: (804) 371-0727
Emaif: sreiner@erols.com
Track: Underage Use of Alcohot
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Robert Reynolds
Direcfor
Nationai Center for the
Advancement of Prevention
11'f40 Rockville Pike, Suite 600
Rockvilte, MD 20852 '
Phone: (301) 984-6507
Fax: (301) 984-6559
Track: Communiry Based
Responses and Initiatives
Vernon Roanhorse
District Prosecutor
Navajo Nation Prosecutors Office
Canoncifo/Alamo Office of
the Prosecutor
- PO Sox 3993,
- Canoncito, NM $7026
Phone: (505) 836-2331
-. Fax: (505) 831-9609
: Track: Community Based
Responses and Initiatives
Marilyn Roberts
Director
Drug Cou�ts Program Office
Office of Justice Programs
U.S. Department of Justice
810 7"' Street, NW, 6�' Floor
Washington, DC 20531
Phone: (202} 616-5055
Fax: (202) 514-6452
Track: Effective lnterventions for
Offender Populations
Laurie Robinson
Assistant Attorney General
Office of Justice Programs
U.S. Department of Justice
810 7th Street, NW
Washington, DC 20531
Phone: (202) 307-5933
Fax: (202) 595-6033
Robin G. W. Room
Vice President
Research and Development
Addiction Research Foundation
33 Russefl SVeet
Toro�to, Ontario, M-5-S-2s1
Phone: (416) 595-6055
Fa�c (416j 595-6033
Gerald Rouse
Vice Presidenf
National Councit of Juvenile and
Family Court Judges
County Judge, 5"' Judiciat Disfricf
Seward County Court
PO Box 37
Seward, NE 68434
Phone: (402) 643-3214
Fax: (4Q2) 643-2950
Track: Underage Use of Alcohol
Bob Schurmeier
Deputy Police Chief
Char(otfe-Meck(enburg
Police Department
601 East 7rade Street
Charlotfe, NC 28202
Phone: (704) 336-2345
Fax: (704) 336-5712
Track: Community Based
Responses and Initiatives
Kathy Schwartz
Administrator
Violence Against Women
Grants Office
Office of Justice Programs
U.S. Department of Justice
810 7"' Street, NW. Room 6318
Washingfon, DC 20531
Phane: (202) 307-3595
Fax: (202) 305-2589
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Linda Sanchez
Executive Director
Pceventing Alcohol Related Trauma
in Salinas
21 West Laurel T3rive, Suite 73
Sa{inas, CA 93906
Phone: (408) 442-7761
Fax: (408) 442-7766
Track: Commun+ty Based
ResQonses and (nitiatives
Stephen Schosnthaler
Professor of Sociology and
Criminal 3ustice
Califomia Sfate Univers'sty -
Stanislaus
801 W. Monte Vista
Turlock, CA 95382
Phone: (209) 667-3222
Fax: (209) 664-7067
Track: Effective Interoentions for
Offender Populations
Carol Schroeder
A&DlHtV Supervisor
Oregon Depa�tment of Corrections
Counseling and Treatment Services
2575 Center Street NE
Salem, OR 9731�
Phone: (503) 378-8373
Fax: (5�3) 378-5118
Track: Effective lnterventions for
Offender Populaiions
Harvey Siegal
Professor
Department of Community Health
Director of Subsfance Abuse
{ntervention Program
Wright State Unversity
School of Medicine
Post Office Box 927
Dayton, OH 45401
Phone: (937) 775-2850
Fax: (937) 775-2171
Track: The Role of Aicohol in
Domestic Volence and its
Implications for Criminal Justice
tnterventions
John Simonet
Director of Corrections and
Undersheriff
Denver Sheriff Department
Post Office Box 1108
Denver, CO 80201
Phone: (303) 375-5690
Fax: (303) 375-5500
Track: Effective Interventions for
Offender Populations
Joanne Smith
District Court Judge
Triaf Court - State of Minnesota
15 W. Kellogg Blvd
St. Paul, MN 55102
Phone: (612) 266-9190
Fax: {612) 266-8311
Emal:joanne.smith@courts.state.mn.us
Track: Community Hased
Responses and Initiatives
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__. Arkan Somo
Executive Director
=== San Diego Merchants Associafion
-- 9621 Campo Road, Suife E
Spring Valley, CA 91977
- Phone: (619} 464-8485
-- Fax: (619) 464-9440
._� Track: Communify Based
- Responses and Initiafives
_ Kathryn Stewart
-, Deputy Director
' National Center for the
Advancement of Prevention
11140 Rockville Pike, Suite 600
� Rockvilfe; MD 20852
-- Phone: (301) 984-6509
- Fax: (301) 984-6559
Track: Underage Use of Alcohof
- Rose Strickland
Director
Latino Council on Alcohol and
_ Tobacco and National Capita(
Coalition to Prevent
- Underage Drinking
--- 1015 15"' Street, NW
Washington, DC 20005
Phone: (202) 246-0671
Fax: (202) 216-0672
Email: nccpud@erols.com
= Track: Underage Use of Alcohol
Lisa Swafford
Resident Practitioner
Bureau of Justice Assistance
U.S. Department of Justice
810 7�' Street, NW, 4"' Floor
Washington, DC 20531
Phone: (202) 6163462
Fax: (202) 305-1367
Email: syraffor�oip.usdoi�,4ov
Tom Talbot
Program Assistant
Cenfer for Effeative Public Policy
8403 Colesville Road, Suite 720
Siiver Spring, MD 20910
Phone: (301) 589-9383
�ax: (301) 589-3505
Patrick Tarr
Senior Policy Anatyst
Office of Policy Development
U.S. Department of Justice
950 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW
Washingfon, DC 20531
Phone: (202) 514-3592
Fax: (202} 514-9112
Jeffrey Tauber
President
Nationa( Association of Drug
Court Professionals
901 N. Pift Streef
Atexandria, VA 22314
Phone: (703} 706-0576
Fax: (703) 706-0577
Track: Effective Interventions for
Offender Populations
Linda Teplin
Professor
Norfhwestern University
710 N. Lakeshore #900
Chicago, IL 60611
Phone: (312} 503-3500
Fax: (312} 503-3535
Sue Thau
Washington Representative
PITCH, fnc.
6217 29�' Sfreet, NW
Washington, DC 20015
Phone: (202} 966-4361
Fax: (202) 966-4361
7rack: Underage Use of Alcohol
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Traci Toomey R. Dale Watker
Associate Director Professor and Chair
Alcohol Epidemiology Program Department of Psychiatry
University of Minnesota Oregon Heaith Sciences University
1300 South 2"' Street 318'I SW Sarra Jackson Road
Minneapotis, M�I 55454-1015 Porttand, OR 97201
Phone: (612) 626-9070 Phone: (503) 494-5494
Fax: (612) 624-0315 Fax: (503) 494-6152
Track: Underage Use of Afcohol Track: The Role of Atcohof in
� Domestic Volence and its
Jeremy Travis Implications for Criminal Justice
Director tnterventions
National Institute of Justice
Office of Justice Programs
U.S. Department of Justice
810 7fh Street, IVW
Washington, DC 20531
Phone: (202) 307-2942
Fax: (202} 307-6394
KeNy K Vance
Senior Manager
Center for Effective Pub{ic Policy
8403 Co{esville Road, Suite 720
Silver Spring, MD 20910
Phone: (301 } 589-9383
Fax: (301) 589-35�5
Track: Community Based
Responses and tnitiatives
Chrisfy Visher
Science Advisor to the Dicector
National Institute of Justice
Office of Justice Programs
U.S. Department of dustice
810 7th Street, NW
Washington, DC 20531
Phone: (202) 307-0694
Fax: (202) 307-6394
Deborah Warner
Clinica{ Direefor
Center for New Beginnings
229 Cotfage Stseet, PO Box 9935
littleton, NH 03561-0935
Phone: (603) 444�465
Fax: (603} 444-6233
Track: Effeotive Intervenfions 4or
Offender Populafions
Beves{y Watf Davis _
Executive Directoc
San Antonio Fighting Back of
United Way
2803 East Commerce
San Antonio, TX 78203
Phone: (210) 271-7232
Fax: {210) 271-1087
Katrina Weinig
Senior Counset
Office of Policy Development
U.S. Department of Justice
950 Pennsytvania Avenue, NW
Room 4250
Washington, DC 20530
Phone: (202) 514-7473
Fax: (202) 514-1685
Track: Underage Use of Alcohol
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Beth Weinman
Programs Coodinator
National Drug Abuse
Federa! Bureau of Prisons
320 First StreeE, NW
�"Jashi�gton, DC 20534
Phone: (202) 514-4492
Fax: (202) 616-3220
Emaii: bweinman@bop.gov
Track: Effective Interventions for
Offender Populations
Connie Weisner
Senior Scientist and Adjunct
Professor
School of Public Health
Univesity of California, Berkeley
2000 Hearst Avenue Suite 300
Berkeley, CA 94709
Phone: (510) 450-2156
Fax: (510) 642-7175
Track: The Role of A►cohol in
Domestic Violence and its
tmplications for Criminal Justice
Interventions
William Wieczorek
Director and Research Professor
SUNY College at Buffalo
Center for Health and
Social Research
'l300 Elmwood Avenue
Buffalo, NY 14222
Phone: (716) 878-6137
Fax: (716) 878-4009
Track: Effective Interventions for
Offender Populations
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Maggie Witmore
Senior Coordinator Family Services
SAMHSA/HHS
5600 Fishers Lane Room 17-89
Rockville, MD 20857
Phone: (301} 443-8216
Fax: (301) 443-3437
Email: mwilmore.samsha.gov
Laura Winte�eld
Nationat Instifute of Jusfice
U.S. Department of Justice
810 7"' Street NW
Washirtgton, DC 20039
Phone: (202) 616-3482
Fax: (202j 307-3694
Gina Wood
Director
Concentration of Federal
Efforts Program
Office of Juvenile Justice and
Delinquency Prevention
U.S. Department of Justice
810 7th Street, NW
Washington, DC 20531
Phone: (202) 616-9159
Fax: (202) 307-2093
Track: Underage lJse of Alcohol
Wilbur Woodis
Management Analyst
Indian Health Service
5300 Homestead Road NE
Albuquerque, NM 87110
Phone: (505) 248-4121
Fax: (505) 248-4129
Track: Community Based
Responses and tnitiatives
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Jim Wright
Youth Program Manager
National Highway Transportation
Safety Administration
400 7th Street, SW Room 5118
Washington, DC 20590
Phone: (202) 366-2724
Fax: (202) 366-2766
Emaii: jwright@nhfsa.dot.gov
Track: Underage Use of Aicohol
Theresa Zubretsky
Director
Human Services Poticy and Planning
New York State Office for the
Prevention of Domestic Viotence
52 Washington St, 3rd Floor
Rensselaer, NY 12144
Phone: (518) 486-6262
Fax: (518) 486-7675
Track: The Role of Alcohof in
Domestic Violence and its
Implications for Criminal Justice
lnterventions
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