Juvenile drug courts (JDC) emerged in response to a perceived need to intervene more
effectively in the substance abuse-delinquency cycle. The influx of drug and alcohol …

Objectives To conduct a meta-analysis of the effects of juvenile drug courts on general
recidivism, drug recidivism, and drug use, and to explore variability in effects across …

Overview Substance use and substance use disorders are highly prevalent among youth
under juvenile justice (JJ) supervision, and related to delinquency, psychopathology, social …

Evaluated the effectiveness of juvenile drug court for 161 juvenile offenders meeting
diagnostic criteria for substance abuse or dependence and determined whether the …

The increase in female adolescent arrest and incarceration is a social problem of enormous
magnitude. In the United States, for example, arrest rates for girls have increased a dramatic …

Background This paper describes the means by which a United States National Institute on
Drug Abuse (NIDA)-funded cooperative, Juvenile Justice-Translational Research on …

The Practical Adolescent Diagnostic Interview (PADDI), a structured diagnostic interview
designed to gather basic information about substance use disorders, mental health …

Background The purpose of this paper is to describe the Juvenile Justice—Translational
Research on Interventions for Adolescents in the Legal System (JJ-TRIALS) study, a …

Responding to urgent calls for effective interventions to address young offenders' multiple
and interconnected problems, a new variant of an existing empirically-validated intervention …

Although effective outpatient treatments have been identified for the well-documented
negative outcomes associated with delinquency and substance use, effective treatments for …