Looking Inside the Black Box of Drug Courts
A Meta‐Analytic Review
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 23337452 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Deborah Koetzle Shaffer (corresponding author) |
| Year | 2011 |
| Volume | 28 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 493-521 |
| Publication date | 2011-06-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Justice Quarterly (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0741-8825 • E-ISSN: 1745-9109 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/07418825.2010.525222 |
| OpenAlex | W2080204903 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 63 |
| References cited | 54 |
There has been a rapid proliferation of drug courts over the past two decades. Empirical research examining the effectiveness of the model has generally demonstrated reduced rates of recidivism among program participants. However, relatively little is known about the structure and processes associated with effective drug courts. The current study seeks to address the issues by exploring the moderating influence of programmatic and non‐programmatic characteristics on effectiveness. The methodology goes beyond previous meta‐analyses by supplementing published (and unpublished) findings with a survey of drug court administrators. Consistent with previous research, the results revealed drug courts reduce recidivism by 9% on average. Further analyses indicated target population, program leverage and intensity, and staff characteristics explain the most variability in drug court effectiveness. These findings are discussed within the context of therapeutic jurisprudence and effective interventions.
Context (archaeology) · Criminology · Drug court · Geography · Leverage (statistics) · Meta-analysis · Population · Psychiatry · Psychological intervention · Recidivism · Sociology · Therapeutic jurisprudence · Computer Science · Criminal Justice and Corrections Analysis · Demography · Healthcare Decision-Making and Restraints · Medicine · Psychology · Psychopathy, Forensic Psychiatry, Sexual Offending
Applying Crime Prevention and Health Promotion Frameworks to the Problem of High Incarceration Rates for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Populations
Opioid-preferring participants in drug court
The Impact of an Indiana (United States) Drug Court on Criminal Recidivism
A call to dismantle systemic racism in criminal legal systems
On the Preventative Effect of Sanctions for Drug Crime
Ending Mass Incarceration
The Long Term Effectiveness of Drug Treatment Court on Reducing Recidivism and Predictors of Voluntary Withdrawal
Racial Disparities in Drug Court Graduation Rates
Incorporating an Afrocentric Approach into the Criminal Justice System
Comparing Two Types of Social Support
Assessing the Empirical Evidence of the National Adult Treatment Court Best Practice Standards (2nd Edition)
Correlates of In-Program Substance Use Trajectory Groups in Drug Treatment Courts
Drug Court as an Intervention Point to Affect the Well-Being of Families of Parents with Substance Use Disorders
Typologies of Family Dependency Treatment Court Participants
Disproportionate Minority Contact in the Juvenile Justice System
Systematic Case Review Strategies
Substance Use Treatment for Indigenous Offenders
What Matters More in Explaining Drug Court Graduation and Rearrest
Preliminary Examination of the Impact of Program Factors on Summary Effect Sizes
Navigating victims’ integration in community courts
The Problems (and possible solutions) of assessing risk, race and recidivism in long operating drug treatment courts
Exploring Dimensions of Adult Drug Treatment Courts Related to Successful Completion
“People, Places, and Things”
Treatment Court Staffs’ Perceptions in Support of the Use of Virtual Services in Court Post-Pandemic
Gender and Community Supervision
Drug Court for Violent Offenders
Adult Drug Treatment Courts and Community-Level Drug Possession Arrests
Navigating the Labor Market among People Who Use Drugs
The Recidivism of Drug Offenders Following Release from Prison
Treatment Integrity and Recidivism among Sex Offenders
Benefits and Costs of “Swift, Certain, and Fair” Supervision
Hope Springs Eternal
Predictors of graduation and criminal recidivism
Re-imagining nonpunitive approaches and rehabilitation in the courtroom
Drug overdoses, geographic trajectories, and the influence of built environment and neighborhood characteristics
Drug Court through the Lenses of African American Women
Mass Probation from Micro to Macro
Improving graduation rates for African Americans in drug court
Judging Addicts
Judging addicts
I am drug dependent’
Racial differences in drug court referral, admission, and graduation rates
A Mapping Review of Criminological Theories and Frameworks of U.S. Drug Courts
For Every Order There Is a Disorder
Alternate policing strategies
Reporting of substance use treatment quality in United States adult drug courts
A systematic review and meta-analysis of the effects of judicial supervision on recidivism and well-being factors of criminal offenders
Assessing the effectiveness of drug courts on recidivism
Rehabilitation
Improving Graduation Rates in Drug Court Through Employment and Schooling Opportunities and Medication-Assisted Treatment (MAT)
Further Evidence of Racial Disparities in Drug Court Outcomes
Drug Courts and the Facilitation of Turning Points
Progress at the State Level Versus Recent Regress at the Federal Level
Ambiguous calls
Do drug courts reduce the use of incarceration
Symptoms of Depression and Successful Drug Court Completion
I Learned It By Watching You
Be All That You Can Be
The Effects of Race and Ethnicity on Admission, Graduation, and Recidivism in the Milwaukee County Adult Drug Treatment Court
Can Drug Courts Help to Reduce Prison and Jail Populations
The Experiences of Young Adult Offenders Who Completed a Drug Court Treatment Program
Maintaining fidelity to the treatment court model through evaluation
Do Race and Ethnicity Matter? An Examination of Racial/Ethnic Differences in Perceptions of Procedural Justice and Recidivism Among Problem-Solving Court Clients
Meta-Analytic Procedures for Social Research
Methods of Meta-Analysis
Meta-Analysis
The Risk Principle in Action
What Works for Female Offenders
A Fail-Safe N for Effect Size in Meta-Analysis
A Fail-Safe N for Effect Size in Meta-Analysis
A systematic review of drug court effects on recidivism
The Recent Past and Near Future of Risk and/or Need Assessment
Risk Principle of Case Classification in Correctional Treatment
The Importance of Staff Practice in Delivering Effective Correctional Treatment
Reducing Prison Misconducts
Estimation of a Single Effect Size
The Psychology of Criminal Conduct
Understanding and Responding to Racial Differences in Drug Court Outcomes
Does Correctional Program Quality Really Matter? The Impact of Adhering to the Principles of Effective Intervention
Cracks in the Penal Harm Movement
Treating the chronic DUI offender “Turning Point” ten years later
Predicting work-related stress in correctional officers
An Examination of the Denver Drug Court
The prediction of criminal and violent recidivism among mentally disordered offenders
| Unique citing works | 63 |
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| Citations per year | 4,5 |
| Citation span | 2012 - 2026 (15) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 58 |