RT Article
T1 The Baltimore city drug treatment court: one-year results from a randomized study
JF Journal of research in crime and delinquency
VO 30
IS 3
SP 337
OP 356
A1 Gottfredson, Denise C.
A1 Exum, Myron Lyn
LA English
YR 2002
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/163965822X
AB This evaluation of the Baltimore City Drug Treatment Court randomly assigned 235 eligible clients to either drug treatment court or "treatment as usual." The program provides an alternative to incarceration for drug-involved, nonviolent offenders. Drug court judges imposed harsher sentences but suspended these sentences conditional on compliance with the drug court regimen. Drug court clients were more likely than controls to participate in drug testing and treatment and to attend status hearings. During the 12 months following the date of randomization into the study, 48 percent of drug treatment court clients and 64 percent of controls were arrested for new offenses. Among the more serious cases heard in the circuit court, 32 percent of drug court clients versus 57 percent of controls were rearrested. When differences in the opportunity to reoffend are taken into consideration, controls were arrested at a rate nearly three times that of drug treatment court clients
K1 USA
K1 Evaluation
K1 Drogentherapie
K1 Drogentest
K1 Drogengerichte
DO 10.1177/002242780203900304