Women and Adult Drug Treatment Courts

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Corinne C. Datchi
Keyword(s):  
Drug Treatment ◽  
Drug Court ◽  
Drug Courts ◽  
Drug Offenders ◽  
Drug Treatment Courts ◽  
Legal Power ◽  
Psychological Theories ◽  
Alternatives To Incarceration ◽  
Treatment Courts ◽  
The Individual

Drug courts offer community-based correctional alternatives to incarceration and target nonviolent felons who engage in criminal activities to sustain their drug use. They use a variety of technologies and sanctions to monitor drug offenders’ adherence to a sober, prosocial lifestyle and to enforce their compliance with drug treatment. The scope of the court’s surveillance power extends to the addicts’ home, place of employment, treatment provider, and recovery community. This chapter examines women’s experiences of the court’s surveillance and use of legal power to mandate treatment. It also highlights the medical and psychological theories that operate within drug court and inform the court’s understanding of addiction and deviance, in particular the idea that addiction is a disease beyond the control of the individual. It reviews the research on the effectiveness of drug courts in light of empirical knowledge about substance-using women and makes recommendations for enhancing gender responsiveness and multicultural competence in drug courts.

Accessing drug treatment courts do age, race or gender matter?

2018 ◽  
Vol 51 (4) ◽  
pp. 619-637 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael Weinrath ◽  
Kelly Gorkoff ◽  
Joshua Watts ◽  
Calum Smee ◽  
Zachary Allard ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Drug Treatment ◽  
Drug Court ◽  
Correctional Institutions ◽  
Indigenous Status ◽  
Drug Treatment Courts ◽  
Key Indicator ◽  
Admission Data ◽  
Treatment Courts ◽  
Male Inmates ◽  
Official Records

To ensure equitable access to diversion from custody, Canadian drug treatment courts should accept referrals whose age, gender, and Indigenous race proportions are similar to probation or custody admissions. Of particular concern are Indigenous offenders, who are over-represented in Canada’s community and institutional corrections systems. To examine the influence of these extra-legal factors, we assessed referrals to the Winnipeg, Manitoba drug treatment court ( N = 288). Provincial corrections data from Statistics Canada’s adult key indicator report, eight years of official records drug court data (2006–2014), and local male sentenced inmate admission data were analyzed. Age, gender, and Indigenous status did not influence referral. Indigenous male referrals to the drug treatment courts were generally higher risk than females or other males. Correctional institutions data showed that Indigenous male inmates had more convictions for violence and higher street gang membership rates, thus attempting to increase drug court referral poses significant challenges. In Manitoba, substantial custody reductions of offenders overall and Indigenous male offenders in particular will require more radical solutions than the drug court.

3. In court and on trial

2015 ◽  
pp. 39-56
Author(s):  
Julian V. Roberts
Keyword(s):  
Criminal Justice ◽  
Problem Solving ◽  
Drug Treatment ◽  
Decision Maker ◽  
Juvenile Courts ◽  
Wrongful Convictions ◽  
Us States ◽  
Drug Treatment Courts ◽  
Treatment Courts ◽  
Almost All

‘In court and on trial’ outlines the procedures once a trial date has been set. There is considerable variation in terms of the nature of the decision-maker—judge or jury—as well as the ways that the adjudicator is appointed. In almost all countries, prosecutors and judges are appointed, but in many US states they are elected. The jury decides questions of fact, whereas the judge decides matters of law. There are now specialist courts, such as drug treatment courts and juvenile courts, which focus on one particular form of offending and adopt a ‘problem-solving’ approach. What happens when criminal justice fails? Wrongful convictions and wrongful acquittals are also discussed.

EFFECTIVENESS OF DRUG TREATMENT COURTS: EVIDENCE FROM A RANDOMIZED TRIAL*

2003 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 171-196 ◽  
Author(s):  
DENISE C. GOTTFREDSON ◽  
STACY S. NAJAKA ◽  
BROOK KEARLEY
Keyword(s):  
Drug Treatment ◽  
Randomized Trial ◽  
Drug Treatment Courts ◽  
Treatment Courts

Extending Recidivism Monitoring for Drug Courts

2016 ◽  
Vol 61 (1) ◽  
pp. 80-99 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kristen E. DeVall ◽  
Paul D. Gregory ◽  
David J. Hartmann
Keyword(s):  
Drug Treatment ◽  
Policy Implications ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Substance Abusing ◽  
Recidivism Rates ◽  
Drug Treatment Courts ◽  
Drug Treatment Court ◽  
Treatment Courts ◽  
Long Term Impact ◽  
Treatment Court

A wealth of research has been amassed documenting the effectiveness of drug treatment courts in addressing the needs of substance-abusing individuals involved with the criminal justice system. However, there is a relative dearth of research that examines the long-term impact of these programs on recidivism rates for both drug treatment court graduates and those unsuccessfully discharged from the program. In this study, we examine which demographic and programmatic/legal factors influence program disposition and recidivism rates of participants (both graduates and those unsuccessfully discharged) across the 5 years following their discharge from a drug treatment court program located in a suburban city in the Midwest. The study sample consists of 249 ( N = 249) male participants who have been out of the program for more than 5 years. Results from the univariate and multivariate analyses are provided, as well as policy implications, directions for future research, and study limitations.

Spatio-Therapeutics: Drug Treatment Courts and Urban Space

2011 ◽  
Vol 20 (2) ◽  
pp. 157-172 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dawn Moore ◽  
Lisa Freeman ◽  
Marian Krawczyk
Keyword(s):  
Drug Treatment ◽  
Urban Space ◽  
Drug Treatment Courts ◽  
Treatment Courts

The benevolent watch: Therapeutic surveillance in drug treatment court

2011 ◽  
Vol 15 (3) ◽  
pp. 255-268 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dawn Moore
Keyword(s):  
Drug Treatment ◽  
Field Work ◽  
Personal Relationships ◽  
Surveillance Studies ◽  
Drug Treatment Courts ◽  
Drug Treatment Court ◽  
Treatment Courts ◽  
Intimate Knowledge ◽  
And Control ◽  
Treatment Court

This article offers an alternative to the traditional, technocentric and control oriented focus of surveillance studies. Drawing on field work in drug treatment courts (DTCs), I theorize the notion of ‘therapeutic surveillance’ as a seemingly benevolent form of monitoring which also troubles the ‘care/control’ dichotomy familiar to surveillance studies and social theory more generally. I look specifically at the roles of judges, treatment workers and DTC participants in constituting a surveillant assemblage which relies on personal relationships, intimate knowledge and pastoral care. I suggest that surveillance studies can move beyond the panopticon by recognizing the varied ways in which surveillance takes place. These strategies can include benevolent acts and intentions alongside (and sometimes coterminous with) coercive manoeuvres.

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