What "Works" in Drug Court
A Bottom-up Female Participants' Perspective
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2168402 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Michael Fischer (0000-0002-7754-890X), Brenda Geiger (0000-0001-5378-381X) |
| Year | 2011 |
| Volume | 21 |
| Issue | 7 |
| Pages | 752-765 |
| Publication date | 2011-10-31 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of Human Behavior in the Social Environment (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1091-1359 • E-ISSN: 1540-3556 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/10911359.2011.615678 |
| OpenAlex | W2139373457 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 9 |
| References cited | 19 |
More than just numbers and statistics are needed to understand what works in drug court. This article stresses the importance of qualitative studies that take an inside look from the perspective of drug court participants to find out why and how drug court works. Focused interviews, participant observation, and analysis of video-taped interactions were the vehicles used to capture the subjective experience of 11 female clients in a California drug court. To foster empowerment and promote strategies and services to reinforce treatment goals, sanctions must be perceived as reasonable by participants and must be responsive to their needs. This article addresses motivation of involuntary clients, a core issue social workers and other change agents face within the criminal justice system. Dedicated staff, graduated supervision, accurate drug testing, wraparound services, resources, and referral, treatment facilities that accepted children and individualized treatment plan and therapists who are ex-addicts, and preferably females, increased these women's sense of self-efficacy perception and confidence in their ability to lead a drug-free life. Despite victimization, pathology, poverty, and oppression, these women found support in the drug court framework that facilitated their search for the various dimension of agency, empowerment, and resilient self efficacy
Agency (philosophy · Criminal justice · Criminology · Drug court · Empowerment · Medical education · Political science · Psychiatry · Public relations · Sanctions · Sociology · Criminal Justice and Corrections Analysis · Medicine · Psychology · Psychopathy, Forensic Psychiatry, Sexual Offending · Substance Abuse Treatment and Outcomes · Law · Social Psychology
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A Qualitative Interpretive Meta-Synthesis (Qims) of women’s experiences in drug court
Criminal justice responses to drug related crime in Scotland
Improving graduation rates in drug court
Inside the Black Box
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A behind-the-scenes perspective on the key components of drug court
Overview of 1-year follow-up outcomes in the Drug Abuse Treatment Outcome Study (Datos).
Profiling Women Prisoners
Prevalence of Psychiatric Disorders Among Incarcerated Women
The Female Offender
Effectiveness of Drug Treatment Courts
Does Correctional Treatment Work? A Clinically Relevant and Psychologically Informed Meta‐analysis
In search of how people change
Therapeutic jurisprudence
| Unique citing works | 9 |
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| Citations per year | 0,69 |
| Citation span | 2013 - 2026 (14) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 9 |