TY - JOUR
T1 - An exploration of treatment and supervision intensity among drug court and non-drug court participants
AU - Lindquist, Christine H.
AU - Krebs, Christopher P.
AU - Warner, Tara D.
AU - Lattimore, Pamela K.
N1 - Funding Information:
This research was funded by grant number RO1 DA13086 from the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA). Points of view are those of the authors and do not represent the views of the Department of Health and Human Services.
PY - 2009
Y1 - 2009
N2 - Evidence is accumulating that drug court programs appear effective in reducing the substance use and recidivism of drug-involved offenders. As there is no single drug court model, programs vary from site to site and the extent to which individual programs are fully implemented is not well documented. The extent to which drug court programs deliver more extensive services to individual offenders than to comparable individuals not participating in drug courts is also not well understood. This paper presents an exploratory analysis of the supervision and treatment delivered to a sample of individuals participating in drug courts in Broward and Hillsborough counties, Florida, and to a sample of comparable drug-involved individuals who were sentenced to probation. Data are from in-person interviews conducted shortly after program entry and nine months following the "baseline" interview. Results suggest that the intensity of supervision and the likelihood of treatment were greater for those involved in drug court programs.
AB - Evidence is accumulating that drug court programs appear effective in reducing the substance use and recidivism of drug-involved offenders. As there is no single drug court model, programs vary from site to site and the extent to which individual programs are fully implemented is not well documented. The extent to which drug court programs deliver more extensive services to individual offenders than to comparable individuals not participating in drug courts is also not well understood. This paper presents an exploratory analysis of the supervision and treatment delivered to a sample of individuals participating in drug courts in Broward and Hillsborough counties, Florida, and to a sample of comparable drug-involved individuals who were sentenced to probation. Data are from in-person interviews conducted shortly after program entry and nine months following the "baseline" interview. Results suggest that the intensity of supervision and the likelihood of treatment were greater for those involved in drug court programs.
KW - Drug court
KW - Probation
KW - Program evaluation
KW - Substance abuse treatment
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U2 - 10.1080/10509670902766489
DO - 10.1080/10509670902766489
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:70549107711
VL - 48
SP - 167
EP - 193
JO - Journal of Offender Rehabilitation
JF - Journal of Offender Rehabilitation
SN - 1050-9674
IS - 3
ER -