The Baltimore City Drug Treatment Court: One-year results from a randomized study
The Baltimore City Drug Treatment Court: One-year results from a randomized study
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DOI：
10.1177/002242780203900304
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发表时间：
2002-08-01
影响因子：
3.2
通讯作者：
Exum, ML
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作者：
Gottfredson, DC;Exum, ML
巴尔的摩市药物治疗法院的这项评估随机将235名符合条件的客户分配到药物治疗法庭或“照常治疗”。该计划为监禁涉及毒品的非暴力罪犯提供了另一种选择。毒品法庭法官判处了更严厉的判决，但缓刑的条件是遵守毒品法庭的养生制度。与对照组相比，毒品法庭的客户更有可能参与药物测试和治疗，并参加状态听证会。在随机纳入研究之日之后的12个月里，48%的戒毒法庭客户和%的控制组因新的犯罪而被捕。在巡回法院审理的更严重的案件中，32%的毒品法庭客户再次被捕，而控制组的客户为57%。当考虑到再犯罪机会的差异时，控制组被捕的比率几乎是戒毒法庭客户的三倍。
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.