RT Article
T1 The effectiveness of Australia’s drug courts
JF The Australian and New Zealand journal of criminology
VO 51
IS 1
SP 76
OP 98
A1 Kornhauser, Ryan
LA English
YR 2018
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/173751043X
AB 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 ‘conventional’ sanctions in reducing recidivism.While Australian evaluations indicate drug courts reduce recidivism more than conventional sanctions, certainty in these findings is tempered by mixed results and methodological limitations.
K1 Drug courts
K1 Program evaluation
K1 Recidivism
K1 Reoffending
K1 Sentencing
DO 10.1177/0004865816673412