TREATMENT INSIDE THE DRUG TREATMENT COURT: THE WHO, WHAT, WHERE, AND HOW OF TREATMENT SERVICES

Abstract

Drug treatment courts provide a new strategy for providing treatment services to offenders within the criminal justice system. With over 400 drug treatment courts in the United States, the courts have evolved to provide treatment services under different models. This article will review the different typologies for delivery of treatment services to drug user offenders in the drug treatment court setting, and it will raise questions about some of the difficult issues underscoring an integrated service delivery model. The paper then identifies some research questions for the future.

• Delivery of services
• Treatment quality
• Recovery
• Compliance
• Brokerage model
• In-house model
• Case management

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Notes on contributors

Faye S. Taxman

Faye S. Taxman, Ph.D., is Director of the Bureau of Governmental Research, which houses the Recidivism Reduction Laboratory at the University of Maryland, College Park and is an associate research professor in the Department of Criminology and Criminal Justice at the University of Maryland—College Park. She is currently evaluating the Maryland Break the Cycle initiative, Maryland's Residential Substance Abuse Treatment, and Virginia's Residential Substance Abuse Treatment Programs. She is also the principal investigator for the Treatment and Criminal Justice Supervision of the Washington-Baltimore High Intensity Drug Trafficking Area (HIDTA), a project of the Office of National Drug Control Policy. Dr. Taxman is also conducting a study of costs and benefits of treatment funded by the National Institute on Drug Abuse. Dr. Taxman has conducted studies in jail based programming, intermediate sanctions, pretrial supervision, diversion, and treatment in the criminal justice system. She has published in many journals and is currently writing a book on treatment programming for the criminal justice system.

Jeffrey Bouffard

Jeffrey Bouffard, Ph.D., is an assistant research professor at North Dakota State University. Dr. Bouffard is also a visiting professor in the School of Public and Environmental Affairs at Indiana University Purdue University Indianapolis. He has conducted numerous evaluations of criminal justice based drug treatment programs and juvenile delinquency prevention programs; as well as research on police investigations and the predictors of sexual offending among male college students.