Drug Court or Probation?: An Experimental Evaluation of Maricopa County’s Drug Court

Deschenes, Elizabeth Piper; Turner, Susan; Greenwood, Peter W.

doi:10.1080/23277556.1995.10871222

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“…For this study, we conducted a secondary data analysis of the Maricopa County, Arizona, adult probation experimental drug testing program data, which was collected between the years 1992 and 1994 (Deschenes et al, 1996). These data were accessed using the Interuniversity Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR) website.…”

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“…This study is a secondary data analysis of the FTDO program participants' earnings and employment outcomes. The researchers who collected the data for the FTDO study were concerned with measuring the drug usage and recidivism outcomes of probationers (Deschenes et al, 1996). Participants in the program were randomly assigned to either standard probation with varying drug testing and probation supervision schedules in the control group or they were assigned to drug court and intensive drug treatment, which was the experimental group, for a 12-month period.…”

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“…The probationers agreed to participate in the Maricopa County Adult Probation Department (Arizona) drug court experiment. The Maricopa County FTDO program is a postadjudication drug treatment program for offenders sentenced to probation for a felony drug offense (Deschenes et al, 1996). Offenders who were eligible for the FTDO program had first time convictions for possession of marijuana, dangerous drugs, narcotics, or drug paraphernalia (Deschenes & Greenwood, 1994).…”

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“…Participants in the program were randomly assigned to either standard probation with varying drug testing and probation supervision schedules in the control group or they were assigned to drug court and intensive drug treatment, which was the experimental group, for a 12-month period. The method for randomly assigning research participants into the control and experimental groups was managed by a computer program (Deschenes et al, 1996).…”

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“…In this study, we examine post-treatment employment and gross earnings outcomes of probationers participating in the Maricopa County (Arizona), First Time Drug Offender (FTDO), experimental drug court program that was tested between 1992 and 1994 (Deschenes, Turner, & Greenwood, 1996). Using secondary data, we will be statistically analyzing the main effects and interaction effects of criminal record and substance use history indicators among probationers on their post-treatment employment and gross earnings outcomes at the 6-and 12-month follow-up periods.…”

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An Examination of Employment and Earning Outcomes of Probationers With Criminal and Substance Use Histories

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There exists a strong relationship between having a criminal history and experiencing barriers to employment. Negative credentials facilitate the social and economic exclusion of individuals with criminal records. However, previous research has not concretely identified whether the stratification of economic opportunities by individual-level criminal records may be further affecting those who demonstrate substance use histories. In this study, we examine the substance use and criminal history profiles of probationers participating in an experimental drug treatment study and how probationer characteristics affect employment outcomes and gross earnings at both the 6-and 12-month follow-up periods. We hypothesize that substance use and criminal history have a main effect and interactional relationship that reduces the odds of self-reporting employment and decreases gross earnings outcomes of probationer. Our results demonstrate that substance use history and criminal history has a main effect on employment and earnings outcomes.

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Drug Courts

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Wakefield²

2013

The Encyclopedia of Criminology and Criminal Justice

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Drug courts provide an intermediate sanction that combines intensive supervision with substance abuse treatment designed to rehabilitate substance‐abusing offenders in order to reduce their recidivism. In doing so, jail and prison populations may also be reduced. Since their inception in 1989, the drug court movement has grown to over 2,000 programs that now operate in the United States. The drug court model is characterized by criminal justice monitoring of participants through frequent drug tests, contacts with supervision personnel, alcohol and drug treatment, and frequent judicial intervention. Through status hearings, the progress of participants is evaluated and rewards and/or sanctions are administered based on the extent of compliance (or lack thereof). The ultimate goal of drug courts is to reduce offender re‐arrests through the mandate of alcohol and drug abstinence.

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