A Drug Court Outcome Evaluation Comparing Arrests in a Two Year Follow-Up Period

Wolfe, Ellen; Guydish, Joseph; Termondt, Jenna

doi:10.1177/002204260203200410

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“…Hickert, Boyle, and Tollefson (2009) studied graduates and terminated clients in a Salt Lake City, Utah, drug court and found two factors affected the likelihood of completion, spending time with family rather than with friends or alone and older age. Wolfe et al (2002) found that graduates compared to nongraduates were more likely to have had a prior drug felony, spent significantly less time in pretrial custody, received more sanctions, and were more likely to be employed when released from the program. Recent work by developed and tested a logistic model to predict drug court graduation in a metropolitan Texas court.…”

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confidence: 94%

“…It is difficult to compare recidivism rates across studies because different outcomes are used, different time frames are studied, and different comparison groups are selected, as Wolfe, Guydish, and Termondt (2002) point out. Much of the research, however, has indicated promising effects of drug court participation on recidivism rates compared to probation (for no difference between drug court participants and controls, see Bavon, 2001).…”

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confidence: 99%

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Predicting Termination from Drug Court and Comparing Recidivism Patterns: Treating Substance Use Disorders in Criminal Justice Settings

Gallagher

Nordberg

Deranek

et al. 2015

Alcoholism Treatment Quarterly

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Drug courts have been used in the criminal justice system to treat substance use disorders since 1989. This study evaluates a drug court in Indiana, focusing specifically on the most predictive variables for being terminated from the program and comparing recidivism patterns of drug court and probation participants. Participants were most likely to be terminated from drug court if they did not have a high school diploma or equivalent at admission, were not employed or a student at admission, identified cocaine as a drug of choice, had more positive drug tests, had a violation within the first 30 days of the program, and had a criminal history. Additional findings suggest that drug court is more effective than probation at reducing criminal recidivism rates for offenders with substance use disorders. Implications for drug court practice and future research are discussed.

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Section: Literature Reviewmentioning

confidence: 94%

Section: Literature Reviewmentioning

confidence: 99%

Predicting Termination from Drug Court and Comparing Recidivism Patterns: Treating Substance Use Disorders in Criminal Justice Settings

Gallagher

Nordberg

Deranek

et al. 2015

Alcoholism Treatment Quarterly

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“…These decisions produced a single odds ratio based on a dichotomous measure for all offenses for 49 of the 55 drug court-comparison contrasts. For the remaining six (Roehl 1998;Dickie 2000;Craddock 2002;Listwan et al 2003;Wolfe et al 2002;Rodriquez and Webb 2004), an average odds ratio was computed across the separate indicators of recidivism. For non-drug offenses, an average odds ratio was computed for seven of the 55 drug courtcomparison contrasts (Gottfredson et al 1996;Johnson et al 1998;Johnson and Latessa 2000;Roehl 1998;Cosden et al 1999;Listwan et al 2001a, b), and, for drug offenses, an average odds ratio was computed for two of the 55 drug courtcomparison contrasts (Roehl 1998; Rodriquez and Webb 2004).…”

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A systematic review of drug court effects on recidivism

2006

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Drug courts have been proposed as a solution to the increasing numbers of drug involved offenders entering our criminal justice system, and they have become widespread since their introduction in 1989. Evaluations of these programs have led to mixed results. Using meta-analytic methods, we systematically reviewed the extant evidence on the effectiveness of drug courts in reducing future criminal offending. Fifty studies representing 55 evaluations were identified, including both experimental and quasi-experimental comparison group designs. The overall findings tentatively suggest that drug offenders participating in a drug court are less likely to reoffend than similar offenders sentenced to traditional correctional options. The equivocation of this conclusion stems from the generally weak methodological nature of the research in this area, although higher quality studies also observed positive results. Furthermore, the evidence tentatively suggests that drug courts using a single model (pre-or post-plea) may be more effective than those not employing these methods. These courts have a clear incentive for completion of the drug court program.

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“…Although not all drug court evaluations report reductions in recidivism for drug court participants (Meithe et al, 2000;Wolfe et al, 2002), a summary of drug court evaluation studies conducted between 1999 and April 2001 (Belenko, 2001) identified several studies reporting significantly lower recidivism rates among drug court participants than comparison offenders (Brewster, 2001;Deschenes et al, 2001;Truitt et al, 2000;Gottfredson & Exum, 2002). In addition, the United States Government Accountability Office (GAO) report on the efficacy of drug courts (GAO, 2005), most of the adult drug court programs evaluated demonstrated reductions in recidivism, at least during the program participation period (i.e., 12 months postbaseline).…”

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Assessing the long-term impact of drug court participation on recidivism with generalized estimating equations

Krebs

Lindquist

Koetse

et al. 2007

Drug and Alcohol Dependence

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Drug courts are one of the most common strategies for dealing with the large proportion of criminal offenders who are drug-involved, yet methodological limitations limit the conclusions that can be drawn from many existing evaluations of their effectiveness. The current study examined the longterm impact of drug court participation compared to regular probation on the recidivism of 475 druginvolved offenders under supervision in Hillsborough County, Florida. Using a combination of selfreported data (collected through in-person interviews at baseline, i.e., the beginning of supervision) and administrative records, the study employed a repeated measures framework (examining five sixmonth time periods from baseline to 30 months post-baseline) and generalized estimating equations to compare the likelihood of being arrested between drug court participants and a matched sample of comparison offenders. The results indicate that participation in drug court was associated with a significant decrease in the likelihood of being arrested in the 12 to 18 months post-baseline time period. Although the drug court effect was somewhat delayed (it was not significant prior to 12 months) and short-lived (it was not significant after 18 months), the fact that significant program effects were observed during a time period that coincides with the conclusion of drug court participation for graduates and a time period well beyond initial program exposure, suggests that drug court participants are more likely than comparable offenders not exposed to drug court to remain arrest free when no longer under community supervision.

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A Drug Court Outcome Evaluation Comparing Arrests in a Two Year Follow-Up Period

Cited by 65 publications

References 6 publications

Predicting Termination from Drug Court and Comparing Recidivism Patterns: Treating Substance Use Disorders in Criminal Justice Settings

Predicting Termination from Drug Court and Comparing Recidivism Patterns: Treating Substance Use Disorders in Criminal Justice Settings

A systematic review of drug court effects on recidivism

Assessing the long-term impact of drug court participation on recidivism with generalized estimating equations

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