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A meta-analytic examination of drug treatment courts : do they reduce recidivism? / Jeff Latimer, Kelly Morton-Bourgon and Jo-Anne Chrétien.

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Canadian Policing Research

Resource

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Alternate Title

Les tribunaux de traitement de la toxicomanie : méta-analyse : ont-ils un effet positif sur les taux de récidive?

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Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references.

Description

1 online resource (iii, 19 pages) : charts

Note

Issued also in French under title: Les tribunaux de traitement de la toxicomanie : méta-analyse : ont-ils un effet positif sur les taux de récidive?
"August 2006"--Title page.

Summary

A meta-analysis was conducted to determine if drug treatment courts reduce recidivism compared to traditional justice system responses. After a comprehensive search of both the published and unpublished literature, 54 studies were located and deemed acceptable according to the study inclusion criteria. Since studies oftentimes contained information on more than one program, data from 66 individual drug treatment court programs were aggregated and analyzed. The results indicated that drug treatment courts significantly reduced the recidivism rates of participants by 14% compared to offenders within the control/comparison groups. Several variables identified in the analysis, however, had an impact on the results, including the age of the participants, the length of the program, the follow-up period used to measure recidivism, and other methodological variables (i.e., the use of random assignment and the choice of the comparison group). While there are other issues that were not the subject of this research, such as the cost-effectiveness of DTCs, the results of this meta-analysis provides clear support for the use of drug treatment courts as a method of reducing crime among offenders with substance abuse problems.

Subject

Online Access

Contents

1. Introduction -- 2. Method -- 3. Results -- 3.1. Study characteristics -- 3.2. Program characteristics -- 3.3. Participant characteristics -- 3.4. Recidivism results -- 3.5. Moderating variable analysis -- 4. Conclusion.

Series

Research report (Canada. Department of Justice. Research and Statistics Division) ; rr06-7e.

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