A National Evaluation of 14 Drug Courts

Turner, Susan; Longshore, Doug; Wenzel, Suzanne L.; Fain, Terry; Morral, Andrew R.; Deschenes, Elizabeth Piper; Harrell, Adele V.; Greene, Judith; Iguchi, Martin Y.; McBride, Duane C.; Taxman, Faye S.

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“…West Huddleston, Douglas B. Marlowe, & Casebolt, 2008;GAO, 2005;Green & Rempel, 2010;Guydish, Tajima, Wolfe, & Woods, 2006;Rossman et al, 2011;Shaffer, Hartman, & Listwan, 2009;Turner et al, 2001). The conventional wisdom is that drug courts are successful in reducing drug addiction and drug-related criminal recidivism while being less expensive alternatives to traditional case processing.…”

Section: Drug Court Efficacymentioning

confidence: 93%

“…Due to the ethical dilemmas presented in randomly assigning criminal offenders to different types of court interventions (no treatment, jail, traditional treatment, drug court), evaluation studies have either failed to include a control group or used weakly conceptualized control groups (unsuccessful drug court participants as compared to successful drug court participants) (DeMatteo, Filone, & LaDuke, 2011;Hoffman, 2002aHoffman, , 2002bLongshore et al, 2001;Popovic, 2000;Turner et al, 2001). Fortunately that is not the case for all evaluation studies on drug courts.…”

Section: Drug Court Efficacymentioning

confidence: 96%

“…While these findings were based on two drug courts with a relatively small sample size, the published research and many evaluation studies conducted support the conventional wisdom. Retention and graduation are both related to a reduction in criminal justice contacts for drug court clients (Gifford, Eldred, McCutchan, & Sloan, 2014;Green & Rempel, 2010;Rossman et al, 2011;Somers, Rezansoff, & Moniruzzaman, 2014;Turner et al, 2001).…”

Section: Drug Court Efficacymentioning

confidence: 97%

“…There have been a multitude of small and large research studies done on drug courts across the country, with a number of studies including multiple sites (Bavon, 2001;Belenko, 1999;Cissner & Rempel, 2005;Granfield, Eby, & Brewster, 1998;Green & Rempel, 2010;Joseph Guydish, Ellen Wolfe, Tajima, & William J. Woods, 2001;Rempel, 2006;Rossman et al, 2011;Shaffer et al, 2009;Turner et al, 2001).…”

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confidence: 97%

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Factors of Success: Drug Court Graduate Exit Interviews

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Drug court judges enforce mandated treatment through a series of rewards and graduated sanctions as compliance with mandated treatment and retention are crucial to successful graduation for participants. A study of 600 graduates from drug court details self-report data of motivations and perceptions offenders shared about their experience in drug court. Clients rated different factors related to their entry into, retention in, and graduation from drug court. Upon graduation, clients rated the opportunity to avoid jail as a key factor in their decision to enter drug court and positive improvements in their life as significant in their decision to remain. This research provides important information on the drug court experience from those clients who successfully graduated.

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Section: Drug Court Efficacymentioning

confidence: 93%

Section: Drug Court Efficacymentioning

confidence: 96%

Section: Drug Court Efficacymentioning

confidence: 97%

Section: Drug Court Efficacymentioning

confidence: 97%

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Factors of Success: Drug Court Graduate Exit Interviews

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“…Within six years, the number of funded adult drug courts grew from 14 to more than 350 and an estimated 220,000 individuals had enrolled in the program [1,2]. In recent years, a substantial number of drug court studies have been conducted yielding evidence of recidivism reductions among graduates [3].…”

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Drug Courts and Community Crime Rates: A Nationwide Analysis of Jurisdiction-Level Outcomes

Lilley

2013

Journal of Criminology

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Although a substantial number of studies have reported that drug courts reduced the recidivism of graduates (Wilson et al., 2006), a series of recent analyses suggested that drug courts and similar programs were associated with unintended crime outcomes in cities and counties across the nation (Lilley and Boba, 2008; Miethe et al., 2000; Peters et al., 2002; Worrall et al., 2009). Given that over 220,000 offenders participated in this alternative to incarceration and most did not successfully complete the drug court program, jurisdictional crime may have been impacted. A series of panel data analyses were conducted among more than 5,000 jurisdictions nationwide from 1995 to 2002 to assess the impact of drug court implementation grants on UCR Part I felony offenses. Consistent with prior findings, drug court implementation grants were associated withnet increasesin vehicle theft, burglary, larceny, and some violent offenses. Possible explanations for these unintended outcomes are discussed along with recommendations for adjustments to current drug court programs across the nation.

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Turner,Susan

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2017

The Encyclopedia of Corrections

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Susan Turner is an American criminologist who studies community and institutional corrections, risk and needs evaluation instruments, and other topics in criminal justice for both juveniles and adults. As Director of the Center for Evidence‐Based Corrections at the University of California, Irvine, and an adjunct staff member of the RAND Corporation, she has published widely in several topics in the field of criminal justice, and is considered one of the top researchers in the field. Her research is consistently oriented toward providing research results that can help decision‐makers and practitioners improve their methods and results.

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A National Evaluation of 14 Drug Courts

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Factors of Success: Drug Court Graduate Exit Interviews

Factors of Success: Drug Court Graduate Exit Interviews

Drug Courts and Community Crime Rates: A Nationwide Analysis of Jurisdiction-Level Outcomes

Turner,Susan

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