Download or read book Defining Drug Courts written by National Association of Drug Court Professionals. Drug Court Standards Committee and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Adult Drug Courts written by Joan B. Calahan and published by Nova Science Publishers. This book was released on 2013-02 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drug court programs were established beginning in the late 1980s as a local response to increasing numbers of drug-related cases and expanding jail and prison populations nationwide. A drug court is a specialized court-based program that targets criminal offenders who have alcohol and other drug addiction and dependency problems. Drug courts have implemented deferred prosecution or post-adjudication case-processing approaches, or have blended both in their organizational structures. In drug courts, using deferred prosecution, defendants waive rights to a trial and enter a treatment program shortly after being charged; those who subsequently fail to complete the treatment program have their charges adjudicated, while those who complete the program are not prosecuted further. This book provides an overview and assessment of the adult drug court system, with a focus on the rate of recidivism and performance measure revision efforts.
Download or read book Adult Drug Courts written by United States. Government Accountability Office and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Drug Courts Background Effectiveness and Policy Issues for Congress written by Celinda Franco and published by DIANE Publishing. This book was released on 2010 with total page 33 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Adult Drug Courts written by U.s. Government Accountability Office and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2017-08-10 with total page 62 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A drug court is a specialized court thattargets criminal offenders who havedrug addiction and dependencyproblems. These programs provideoffenders with intensive courtsupervision, mandatory drug testing, substance-abuse treatment, and othersocial services as an alternative toadjudication or incarceration. As ofJune 2010, there were over 2,500 drugcourts operating nationwide, of whichabout 1,400 target adult offenders. TheDepartment of Justice's (DOJ) Bureauof Justice Assistance (BJA)administers the Adult Drug CourtDiscretionary Grant Program, whichprovides financial and technicalassistance to develop and implementadult drug-court programs. DOJrequires grantees that receive fundingto provide data that measure theirperformance. In response to the FairSentencing Act of 2010, this reportassesses (1) data DOJ collected onthe performance of federally fundedadult drug courts and to what extentDOJ used these data in making grant-related decisions, and (2) what isknown about the effectiveness of drugcourts. GAO assessed performancedata DOJ collected in fiscal year 2010and reviewed evaluations of 32 drug-court programs and 11 cost-benefitstudies issued from February 2004through March 2011
Download or read book Adult Drug Courts written by U S Government Accountability Office (G and published by BiblioGov. This book was released on 2013-06 with total page 90 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drug court programs, which were established in the late 1980s as a local response to increasing numbers of drug-related cases and expanding jail and prison populations, have become popular nationwide in the criminal justice system. These programs are designed to reduce defendants' repeated crime (that is, recidivism), and substance abuse behavior by engaging them in a judicially monitored substance abuse treatment. However, determining whether drug court programs are effective at reducing recidivism and substance use has been challenging because of a large amount of weak empirical evidence. he 21st Century Department of Justice Appropriations Authorization Act requires that GAO assess drug court program effectiveness. To meet this mandate, GAO conducted a systematic review of drug court program research, from which it selected 27 evaluations of 39 adult drug court programs that met its criteria for, among other things, methodological soundness. This report describes the results of that review of published evaluations of adult drug court programs, particularly relating to (1) recidivism outcomes, (2) substance use relapse, (3) program completion, and (4) the costs and benefits of drug court programs. DOJ reviewed a draft of this report and had no comments. Office of National Drug Control Policy reviewed a draft of this report and generally agreed with the findings.
Download or read book Drug Courts written by James E. Lessenger and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2008-07-17 with total page 500 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This concise yet comprehensive reference is the first of its kind and draws on the authors’ personal teaching file of cases from the Adult Drug Court in California. The book offers unparalleled insight into the drug court system and the medical problems of drug court patients. It is the first book of its kind in the family medicine literature. The authors share their extensive knowledge of addiction and withdrawal, treatment of patients with dual diagnoses of mental illness and addiction, and treatment of drug-associated diseases such as tuberculosis, hepatitis, and HIV.
Download or read book Adult Drug Courts written by United States Government Accountability Office and published by . This book was released on 2011-12-30 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: BJA collects an array of data on adult drug-court grantees, such as drug-court completion rates, and during the course of GAO's review, began expanding its use of this performance data to inform grant-related decisions, such as allocating resources and setting program priorities. For example, during September 2011, BJA assessed a sample of adult drug-court grantees' performance across a range of variables, using a new process it calls GrantStat. BJA developed recommendations following this assessment and is determining their feasibility. In addition, in October 2011, BJA finalized revisions to the performance measures on which grantees report. BJA's process of revising its performance measures generally adhered to key practices, such as obtaining stakeholder involvement; however, BJA could improve upon two practices as it continues to assess and revise measures in the future. First, while BJA plans to assess the reliability of the new measures after the first quarter of grantees' reporting, officials have not documented, as suggested by best practices, how it will determine if the measures were successful or whether changes would be needed. Second, should future changes to the measures be warranted, BJA could improve the way it documents its decisions and incorporates feedback from stakeholders, including grantees, by recording key methods and assumptions used to guide its revision efforts. By better adhering to best practices identified by GAO and academic literature, BJA could better ensure that its future revision efforts result in successful and reliable metrics-and that the revision steps it has taken are transparent. In the evaluations that GAO reviewed, drug-court program participation was generally associated with lower recidivism. GAO's analysis of evaluations reporting recidivism data for 32 programs showed that drug-court program participants were generally less likely to be re arrested than comparison group members drawn from criminal court, with differences in likelihood reported to be statistically significant for 18 of the programs. Cost-benefit analyses showed mixed results. For example: Across studies showing re-arrest differences, the percentages of drug- court program participants re-arrested were lower than for comparison group members by 6 to 26 percentage points. Drug court participants who completed their program had re-arrest rates 12 to 58 percentage points below those of the comparison group. GAO's analysis of evaluations reporting relapse data for eight programs showed that drug-court program participants were less likely than comparison group members to use drugs, based on drug tests or self- reported drug use, although the difference was not always significant. Of the studies assessing drug-court costs and benefits, the net benefit ranged from positive $47,852 to negative $7,108 per participant.
Download or read book Drug Court Justice written by Kevin Whiteacre and published by Drug Court Justice. This book was released on 2008 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is an exploratory study of a juvenile drug treatment court in the Midwest. Based on observations and interviews the author conducted while serving as the contracted program evaluator, the book investigates how denial, surveillance, coercion, accountability, and definitions of success operate and interact in the Juvenile Drug Court environment and intertwine with institutional needs and authority structures. The book's findings suggest that some drug court practices may expose participants to potential harms that until now have been largely ignored in studies of drug courts. Drug Court Justice concludes with suggestions for reducing the potential harms of juvenile drug courts.
Download or read book Juvenile Drug Courts and Teen Substance Abuse written by Jeffrey A. Butts and published by The Urban Insitute. This book was released on 2004 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines the ideas behind juvenile drug courts and explores their history and popularity. The collection assesses the evidence supporting juvenile drug courts and guides the next generation of evaluation research.
Download or read book Drug and Veterans Treatment Courts written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary. Subcommittee on Crime and Terrorism and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 108 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Adult Drug Courts written by and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 56 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "In response to the Fair Sentencing Act of 2010, this report assesses (1) data DOJ collected on the performance of federally funded adult drug courts and to what extent DOJ used these data in making grant-related decisions, and {2) what is known about the effectiveness of drug courts. GAO assessed performance data DOJ collected in fiscal year 2010 and reviewed evaluations of 32 drug court programs and 11 cost-benefit studies issued from February 2004 through March 2011"--Why GAO did this study, p. [8].
Download or read book Drug Courts written by Colleen Kennedy and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Looking at a Decade of Drug Courts written by and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 26 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Drug Court Activity written by and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Drug Courts written by United States. General Accounting Office and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 88 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Quitting Hard Habits written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Oversight and Government Reform. Subcommittee on Domestic Policy and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
