“…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. 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).…”