The effectiveness of Australia’s drug courts

Operating in Australia since 1999, drug courts are now present in the majority of Australian jurisdictions. This paper takes stock of the impact evaluations of Australia’s drug courts to date, and considers to what extent these evaluations support drug courts as being more effective than ‘convention...

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Main Author: Kornhauser, Ryan (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
Published: 2018
In: The Australian and New Zealand journal of criminology
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