Developing community-based options for drug abusing women is important for a variety of
reasons. One option that shows promise is the treatment-oriented drug court. Although drug …

In little over a decade, drug courts have gone from a lone experiment in Dade County,
Florida, to a national movement with over 750 programs and hundreds more in …

Background: Drug and alcohol abuse among women is a growing problem in the United
States. Drug treatment is an effective way to manage the psychological, biological, financial …

This study evaluated a drug court located in a metropolitan area of Indiana (United States),
focusing specifically on identifying variables that predicted recidivism among drug court …

Operating with community support and through partnerships among treatment providers and
the criminal justice system, drug courts address substance abuse as a root cause of criminal …

It is important to understand offenders' individual strengths and weaknesses within the
context of drug court, especially given the tremendous increase in female drug offending …

Drug courts began in the United States in 1989, and nearly three decades of evidence has
shown that drug courts are more effective than other criminal justice interventions at …

The drug court model, which integrates drug treatment with community supervision and uses
the authority of the court to facilitate compliance and behavioral change, provides an …

Over the last decade, there has been a dramatic rise in the number of women arrested for
drug offenses, and many have serious drug abuse problems. Increasingly, these women …

This paper examines men and women methamphetamine (meth) users who participated in a
community-based drug court. The treatment of female drug users is a particularly salient …