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The Early Drug Courts
Case Studies in Judicial Innovation
Edited by:
- W. C. Terry, III - Florida International University, North Miami, USA
208 pages | SAGE Publications, Inc
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
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
Steve Belenko
Diverting Drug Offenders to Treatment Courts
Elizabeth Piper Deschenes and Rebecca D Peterson
Experimenting with the Drug Court Model
John S Goldkamp
Challenges for Research and Innovation