Services Research on Sanctions & Rewards in Drug Court

说明： 这项拟议的研究建立在我们NIDA资助的健康服务研究系列的基础上 旨在系统地隔离各种“关键组成部分”的影响 由全国毒品法庭协会定义的毒品法庭 专业人员(NADCP，1997)。在一系列随机的对照分析中，我们 一直在研究不同的司法日程安排方法的效果 特拉华州五个成人毒品法庭的状况听证会。基线 招募和治疗期间的评估将在其中之一结束 法院在2001年8月之前，该法院的所有利益相关者都 要求我们对另一个核心进行后续的受控评估 他们计划中的元素。与法院全体人员密切合作 利益相关者，我们现在提议随机分配同意的轻罪 毒品罪犯将受到(1)计划的负面制裁 违规，(2)对计划成就的积极奖励，或(3)两者兼而有之 对违规行为的处罚和对成就的奖励。除了 实验性操纵制裁和奖励，条件将是 一模一样。所有受试者将接受相同的治疗和病例管理 服务，相同的司法地位听证时间表和相同的时间表 尿液分析监测。我们将评估受试者的非法药物使用、犯罪情况 治疗期间每月的累犯率、酗酒和心理社会功能 在进入毒品法庭后的6个月和12个月，我们将监测国家 入院后24个月的刑事司法数据库。我们设计了 制裁和奖励条件：(1)基于经验验证的 行为原则，(2)代表制裁的类型和 毒品法庭常用的奖励安排；以及(3)将 有能力在目前的毒品法院继续执行 研究结论。这项研究将进一步推动我们对 “真实世界”毒品法庭对受控、参数效应的分析 他们的核心服务。通过分离不同组件的特定效果 毒品法庭，我们将确定构建和管理的最佳方式 为这一前景看好的干预提供服务。

DESCRIPTION: The proposed study builds upon our NIDA-funded line of health-services research aimed at systematically isolating the effects of the various "Key Components" of a drug court as defined by the National Association of Drug Court Professionals (NADCP, 1997). In a series of randomized, controlled analyses, we have been studying the effects of different approaches to scheduling judicial status hearings in five adult drug courts throughout Delaware. Baseline recruitment and during-treatment assessments will be ending in one of those courts by August of 2001, and all of the stakeholders of that court have requested that we conduct a subsequent controlled evaluation of another core element of their program. In close collaboration with all of the court stakeholders, we are now proposing to randomly assign consenting misdemeanor drug offenders to receive either (1) negative sanctions for program infractions, (2) positive rewards for program accomplishments, or (3) both sanctions for infractions and rewards for accomplishments. Apart from the experimental manipulation of sanctions and rewards, the conditions will be identical. All subjects will receive the same treatment and case management services, the same schedule of judicial status hearings, and the same schedule of urinalysis monitoring. We will evaluate subjects' illicit drug use, criminal recidivism, alcohol use, and psychosocial functioning monthly during treatment and at 6 and 12 months post-admission to drug court, and we will monitor state criminal justice databases for 24 months post-admission. We have designed sanction and reward conditions that (1) are based upon empirically validated behavioral principles, (2) are representative of the types of sanction and incentive arrangements that are commonly used in drug courts, and (3) will be capable of continued implementation in the current drug court after the conclusion of the study. This study will further advance our efforts to subject "real world" drug courts to controlled, parametric analyses of the effects of their core services. By isolating the specific effects of various components of drug courts, we will determine the optimum manner in which to structure and deliver services for this promising intervention.