Adele V Harrell
Biographic Data
| ID | 4518791 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Adele V Harrell |
| GIVEN NAMES | Adele V |
| FAMILY NAME | Harrell |
| SIGNATURE | HARRELL A V |
| AFFILIATIONS | Urban Institute |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 10 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 5 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1994 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2008 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Reducing Intimate Partner Violence
Research Summary In 1999, three communities were selected to participate in a research demonstration designed to test the feasibility and impact of a coordinated response to intimate partner violence that involved the courts and justice agencies in a central role. The primary goals of the Judicial Oversight Demonstration (JOD) were to increase victim safety, hold offenders accountable, and reduce repeat offending using coordinated community servi…
Judging Drug Courts
Breaking the Cycle of Drugs and Crime
Research Summary: We compared 137 felony defendants arrested before the implementation of Breaking the Cycle, a pretrial intervention with felony defendants that included drug testing, supervision, and drug treatment as needed, to 245 BTC participants. We found Significant lower rates of arrest and self‐reported drug use and crime among BTC participants during the next year. Policy Implications: Systematic intervention aimed at all drug‐involved …
Assessing the Costs and Benefits Accruing to the Public from a Graduated Sanctions Program for Drug‐Using Defendants
This paper presents a cost‐benefit analysis of the returns to the public from reductions in recidivism associated with a graduated sanctioning program for drug felony defendants. Estimates of program costs for operating a court‐based drug testing and sanctioning program are presented with estimates of the value of potential benefits of averted criminal incidents and crime control. The results, based on the evaluation of the Superior Court Drug In…
Drugs, Crime, and Social Isolation
Is there an urban underclass that is becoming increasingly isolated from mainstream social and economic life? If so, how does it perpetuate itself and how does it limit the opportunities of people raised in poor neighborhoods? The authors examine these questions from several perspectives. They contrast the life of poor African Americans in 19th-century Philadelphia with the underclass of today, examine recent trends in the physical and economic i…
Judging Drug Courts
Reducing Intimate Partner Violence
Research Summary In 1999, three communities were selected to participate in a research demonstration designed to test the feasibility and impact of a coordinated response to intimate partner violence that involved the courts and justice agencies in a central role. The primary goals of the Judicial Oversight Demonstration (JOD) were to increase victim safety, hold offenders accountable, and reduce repeat offending using coordinated community servi…
Breaking the Cycle of Drugs and Crime
Research Summary: We compared 137 felony defendants arrested before the implementation of Breaking the Cycle, a pretrial intervention with felony defendants that included drug testing, supervision, and drug treatment as needed, to 245 BTC participants. We found Significant lower rates of arrest and self‐reported drug use and crime among BTC participants during the next year. Policy Implications: Systematic intervention aimed at all drug‐involved …
Drugs, Crime, and Social Isolation
Is there an urban underclass that is becoming increasingly isolated from mainstream social and economic life? If so, how does it perpetuate itself and how does it limit the opportunities of people raised in poor neighborhoods? The authors examine these questions from several perspectives. They contrast the life of poor African Americans in 19th-century Philadelphia with the underclass of today, examine recent trends in the physical and economic i…
Assessing the Costs and Benefits Accruing to the Public from a Graduated Sanctions Program for Drug‐Using Defendants
This paper presents a cost‐benefit analysis of the returns to the public from reductions in recidivism associated with a graduated sanctioning program for drug felony defendants. Estimates of program costs for operating a court‐based drug testing and sanctioning program are presented with estimates of the value of potential benefits of averted criminal incidents and crime control. The results, based on the evaluation of the Superior Court Drug In…
Breaking the Cycle of Drugs and Crime
Research Summary: We compared 137 felony defendants arrested before the implementation of Breaking the Cycle, a pretrial intervention with felony defendants that included drug testing, supervision, and drug treatment as needed, to 245 BTC participants. We found Significant lower rates of arrest and self‐reported drug use and crime among BTC participants during the next year. Policy Implications: Systematic intervention aimed at all drug‐involved …
Judging Drug Courts
Reducing Intimate Partner Violence
Research Summary In 1999, three communities were selected to participate in a research demonstration designed to test the feasibility and impact of a coordinated response to intimate partner violence that involved the courts and justice agencies in a central role. The primary goals of the Judicial Oversight Demonstration (JOD) were to increase victim safety, hold offenders accountable, and reduce repeat offending using coordinated community servi…
Criminology (5 works) · Law (4 works) · Law (4 works) · Political science (4 works) · Psychology (4 works) · Business (3 works) · Criminal justice (3 works) · Criminal Justice and Corrections Analysis (3 works) · Economic Justice (3 works) · Psychiatry (3 works)