Reintegrating Recovering Drug-addicts: Coalescing Faith and Work

Reintegrating Recovering Drug-addicts: Coalescing Faith and Work has provided understanding to some unanswered questions about how reintegration programmes offered by FBOs actually address risk factors associated with recidivism, as well as change the social circumstances of recovering drug-addicts. This work has systematically analysed the involvement of some selected faith-based organisations in southwestern Nigeria in the provision of welfare services for recovering drug-addicts. Precisely, the book subjects the reintegration programmes of three selected FBOs in South-western Nigeria to sociological scrutiny so as to understand the social character, effectiveness and local appropriateness of their programmes. Indeed, against the backdrop of debates and contestations in the literature on the efficacy of interventions of FBOs with regard to vulnerable people, the book has examined the key attributes of the social reintegration programmes offered by the selected FBOs as well as the level and extent of compliance of such programmes with the prescriptions and idealisations as enunciated in relevant global and national policies and institutional frameworks.

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Dr. Olajire, O. Olutola studied Sociology and Anthropology at Bachelor and Masters Levels in Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife, Osun state, Nigeria. He bagged his PhD degree also in sociology at University of Fort Hare, East London Campus, Eastern Cape in South Africa. He specializes in sociology of crime and deviant behaviour (criminology).