Drug Courts
Drug Courts Effects on Criminal Offending for Juveniles and Adults
... 55 drug court evaluations. These authors tentatively concluded that drug court participants have lower rates of recidivism (drug and non-drug offending) than similar offenders who did not ...
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A Guiding Hand or a Slap on the Wrist: Can Drug Courts be the Solution to Maternal Opioid Use?
... identified or reported until after the birth, jail is inappropriate because treatment is still the primary concern, and the newborn may benefit from interacting with its mother. If states want to protect children and ...
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Drug Courts Are Not the Answer: Toward a Health-Centered Approach to Drug Use
... that drug use or the perceived need for treatment should never be the reason that people enter the criminal justice system, and that the criminal justice system should never be the primary path for people to ...
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American University s Drug Court. Rediscovering Rehabilitation: Drug Courts, Community Corrections and Restorative Justice DRUG COURTS
... school.’’ Drug courts, community corrections and restorative jus- tice can provide more meaningful, just and beneficial resolutions for society, victims and ...
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JUVENILE DRUG COURTS? 1
... that drug courts might lead to the development of a perverse incentive such that people who come forward to drug treatment services on their own volition are unable to gain admission because ...
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Know. need to. Research Update on Adult Drug Courts. Effectiveness
... Research clearly demonstrates that judicial status hearings are an indispensible element of Drug Courts (Carey et al., 2008; Festinger et al., 2002; Marlowe et al., 2004a, 2004b, 2006, 2007). The optimal ...
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Position Paper: Drug Courts in Victoria: evidence & options
... Victorian Drug Court can sentence an individual to a Drug Treatment Order (DTO) for up to two ...The Drug Court details various conditions of the DTO which includes providing samples for drug ...
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Drug Courts and the De Facto Legalization of Drug Use for Participants in Residential Treatment Facilities
... Drug court statutes typically provide that a drug court judge will monitor a participant's progression through treatment, returning recalcitrant offenders to criminal court if necessary.[r] ...
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ST. LOUIS DRUG COURTS
... the drug court; the defendant’s ability to fully meet all drug court requirements; and any other relevant ...for drug court admission. In post plea cases, the Drug Court Operations Committee ...
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Best Practice Assessment and Treatment for Juvenile Drug Courts
... Marriage and Family Therapy (MFT) Programs Director, ULM Ouachita & Morehouse Parishes: Models for Change Project. Director.[r] ...
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Measures of success : capturing the impact of drug courts
... Jurisprudence and the Tasmanian Court Mandated Diversion Program' , available at http://ssrn.com/abstract=1992734 National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers 2009 , 'America's Probl[r] ...
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Family/Dependency Drug Treatment Court Programs. Office of Problem- Solving Courts
... recovery. Courts and stakeholders are charged with the task of determining a permanency plan for a child found a Child In Need of Assistance (CINA) and committed to the department of social services no later than ...
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Prisoners of Their Own War: Can Policymakers Look Beyond the War on Drugs to Drug Treatment Courts?
... in drug treatment courts, continuing to fund them without offering any ...of drug treatment courts, and procedures are disparate, varying widely from court to court, even within a single ...of ...
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Better Courts Case-study: West London Drug Court. By Ben Estep
... to drug related offending is drug courts. Drug courts seek to use the court process to both support and coerce drug users into successfully engaging with treatment for their ...
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Recidivism and the Courts
... If the law will substitute for its present theory of maximum criminal sentences the conception that societies right to be protected from crime is paramount to any abnormal individual's r[r] ...
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Criminologist and the Courts
... As a result we find that in this group will occur cases belonging to the various other classifications, as there are undoubtedly feebleminded individuals who present this behavior, there[r] ...
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Courts Martial
... As an example of snap-judgment, a member of a general court told counsel, after only one witness in a long case testified, that he thought this witness was a liar and he was going to vot[r] ...
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ROLE OF THE COURTS
... thing, I will know that you dont really un- derstand the limitations of court procedure. It is not because the judge is more sympa- thetic to a parent who is abusing a child. It is becau[r] ...
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THE STATE OF THE COURTS
... immediately follow after that. Make sure to mark calendars for this event, as well as the rest of the fourth Wednesdays in every month, as this is when we have our monthly meetings. The[r] ...
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Courts and Accountability: Public Interest Litigation in the Indian High Courts
... alternative of repealing the legislation if it wished.' In Umed Ram Sharma the Supreme Court said it was acceptable (just) to require the state government to consi[r] ...
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