NCJ Number
227009
Journal
Journal of Offender Rehabilitation Volume: 48 Issue: 3 Dated: April 2009 Pages: 167-193
Date Published
April 2009
Length
27 pages
Annotation
This study examined what individual drug court participants received in the way of supervision conditions and treatment services compared to nondrug court participants.
Abstract
Findings demonstrate that supervision is more intense for drug court clients than comparison offenders at both the baseline (a time point that reflects the initial supervision period) and followup (a time point approximately mid-way through drug court participation or, for comparison group members, the supervision term) periods. Although there was an uneven allocation of sample members into the supervision type categories (drug court clients were more likely to be on drug-offender probation or drug pretrial intervention while comparison group members were more likely to be on regular felony probation), the pattern of greater supervision intensity for drug court participants remained even when the sample was subset to only those on drug offender probation, the only supervisor type for which a comparison was possible. The study did not demonstrate that drug court clients received more intensive substance abuse treatment than nondrug court clients based on self-reported data. Data were collected from the Florida Department of Corrections on a weekly basis and included 524 individuals (229 drug court participants and 295 nondrug court participants) for whom baseline and followup interviews were conducted. Tables, notes, and references