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The Early Drug Courts
Case Studies in Judicial Innovation

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Volume: 7
March 1999 | 208 pages | SAGE Publications, Inc
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A natural companion to the recently published Drug Control and the Courts (SAGE 1996), this accessible volume focuses on five case studies in judicial innovation - the dedicated drug treatment courts in Miami, Oakland, Fort Lauderdale, Portland and Phoenix. Each case is presented in a chapter written by a local expert to describe and evaluate five prime examples of dedicated drug treatment courts. These chapters are written to a common outline and each discuss the following points: community demographics; structural organization of the court; court caseloads, including drug cases; successes and failures of initial goals and objectives and subsequent adaptations; and measures of long-term successes and failures (recidivism and successful completion of treatment programmes).
W Clinton Terry III
Judicial Change and Dedicated Treatment Courts
Case Studies in Innovation

 
John S Goldkamp
The Origin of the Treatment Drug Court in Miami
Brooke Bedrick and Jerome H Skolnick
From `Treatment' to `Justice' in Oakland, California
W Clinton Terry III
Broward County's Dedicated Drug Treatment Court
From Postajudication to Diversion

 
Steve Belenko
Diverting Drug Offenders to Treatment Courts
The Portland Experience

 
Elizabeth Piper Deschenes and Rebecca D Peterson
Experimenting with the Drug Court Model
Implementation and Change in Maricopa County, Arizona

 
John S Goldkamp
Challenges for Research and Innovation
When Is a Drug Court Not a Drug Court?

 

W C Terry, III

I am an Associate Professor of Criminal Justice in the School of Policy and Management at Florida International University. I received a Ph.D. in sociology from the University of California at Santa Barbara and was a DAAD Fellow at the University of Goettingen in Goettingen, Germany. I have taught criminology and criminal justice at the California State University at Fresno, the University of Florida, and at Florida International University. My interests are in criminology/criminal justice.  My career began with police studies, particularly within the broader area of police organization and behavior as a reflection of broader socio-... More About Author

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