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Showing 1 to 20 of 22 for “"Drug court"”.
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The State of the Drug Court: A Systematic and Critical Analysis of Drug Court Evaluations
Drug courts have become an important part of adult and juvenile corrections. Since the establishment of the first adult drug court in 1989, the therapeutic court model has developed, and can now be considered a significant component in American criminal justice. The problem is adult drug courts …
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Predictors of Drug Court Client Graduation
… justice system with offender incarceration for drug-related crimes, it also strains in the healthcare system with costs in excess of $216 billion dollars for treatment of drug-related mental and physical illnesses. Many offenders of nonviolent crimes with substance use disorder have been …
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Factors That Influence Program Completion: Predicting Kentucky Drug Court Completion Outcomes
… examines data collected from Kentucky Drug Court to determine factors associated with program completion outcomes. Extant research on drug court completion outcomes is generally limited to individual drug courts and includes small numbers of observations. This research uses more than …
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Alternative to Incarceration Methods: A Case Study of the Hall County Drug Court
… This is one of the reasons that accountability courts have become a more accepted and utilized part of the criminal justice system. Many jurisdictions are taking advantage of what these programs have to offer in an effort to battle the rising cost of prosecuting drug offenders. Drug addiction is …
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Examining specialized drug courts: An evaluation of the Las Vegas Drug Court treatment program
… in response to overcrowded jails and backlogged court dockets, drug courts use comprehensive treatment and graduated sanctions to deal with drug offenders. This study evaluates the Las Vegas Drug Court in terms of its effectiveness in reducing recidivism by comparing data for drug court cases …
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Mental Health Treatment and Recidivism Among Probationers who Successfully Completed a Drug Court Treatment Program
… mental health treatment provided by a county court to drug court graduates and recidivism rates upon 1- and 3-year follow-ups. Participants included 54 graduates of drug court probation who were primarily male (n = 41, 79.5%) with an average age of 37.8. Information on mental health treatment …
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A Qualitative Exploration of a Massachusetts Drug Court: How are the 10 Key Components Applied?
<p>With the overwhelming drug offense and policy changes that occurred in the 1980s, the criminal justice system was forced to create other methods of dealing with offenders suffering from substance abuse problems. Therefore, drug court was created as a diversion program. Drug court was first …
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Through a lens of therapeutic jurisprudence: A case study of the Children’s Court Drug Court in Perth
The Children’s Court Drug Court (CCDC) has operated for 20 years in Perth as an alternative Court for drug-using young offenders who present at the Children’s Court. Despite the CCDC’s relative longevity, researchers have examined neither the inner workings of the Court nor the experiences of its …
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Drug courts and the Following of the Federal Guidelines
<p>During the 1980’s, drug offense were running high within the United States. The court system along with the police and other fields were forced to form other methods of dealing with offenders who have a substance abuse problem. In 1989, the first drug court in the United States was formed in the …
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Therapeutic Jurisprudence in Criminal Justice: A Gendered Engagement
… study design consisting of four case studies of drug court sites—two in Australia and two in Canada—to compare and contrast how TJ is given effect in different settings and to examine women’s experiences of TJ in these settings. The study utilises mixed research methods including: non-participant …
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Foster Parents' Perceptions of Barriers to Accessing Substance Abuse Treatment for Foster Youth
… scarce. In San Bernardino County, Juvenile drug court is no longer offered, which has led to fewer resources for foster parents in need of substance abuse treatment services. Without access to juvenile drug court, foster youth are often in need of substance abuse treatment services after …
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Case Study of the Structures of Criminal and Drug Courts
… actors and organizations working in criminal and drug courts. Specifically, the dissertation examines the structure (as defined by the interactions and relationships of players) of a criminal court and a drug court operating under a state trial court system in the United States. Recent reforms to …
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Juvenile substance use and effects of substance use disorder on incarceration and grade retention in a sample referred for court clinic mental health evaluation
… amount of adolescents are involved in the drug court system. Within a few of the systems are mental health clinics providing more specific services to youth introduced into the courts. At the Rhode Island Family Court, juveniles are referred for full mental health evaluations in the court …
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Care beyond justice: The conflicted ethics of drug treatment courts
… on ethnographic fieldwork at three metropolitan drug treatment courts in the United States. Drug treatment courts are specialized courts within the criminal justice system that offer eligible defendants a chance at treatment instead of incarceration. Unlike previous studies of drug courts, I …
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Criminal Justice Policy, Race, and the Dynamics of Admission to Prison
… variation within one state, by exploring drug courts in Georgia. Drug court diversion programs offer people charged with drug possession who have a substance abuse issue an alternative to prison in exchange for participating in a court-supervised intensive treatment program. However, these …
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Policy Partners in the Neoliberal Age: Corresponding School and Prison Reforms Since 1970
… -vis case studies of local charter school and drug court reforms. Findings include correspondence in the implementation of data-driven managerial practices and representations, the extension of private nonprofit and foundation influence on policy, and the (re)production and circulation of what …
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Recovery from Substance Abuse: The Role of Unsupportive Social Interactions
… who were currently participants in two Drug Court programs, completed measures of global positive social support (the 6-item Social Support Questionnaire), recovery-specific positive social support (Important People & Activities Instrument, brief version), recovery-specific unsupportive …
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YOUTH HARVEST: EXPLORING AN EMPLOYMENT-BASED, SERVICE-ORIENTED, THERAPEUTIC PROGRAM FOR “AT-RISK YOUTH”
In the mid-1990s, juvenile courts began establishing youth drug courts that blended the principles of restorative justice and the philosophy of therapeutic jurisprudence in an attempt to process juvenile drug offenders in a way that emphasizes rehabilitation of the offenders and restoration to the …
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