NCJ Number
247214
Date Published
2013
Length
6 pages
Annotation
This is the Program Performance Report (April-June 2012) for enhancement grantees under the Adult Drug Court Discretionary Grant Program (ADC Program) administered by the U.S. Justice Department's Bureau of Justice Assistance (BJA), which is intended to "build and/or expand drug court capacity at the State, local, and tribal levels to reduce crime and substance abuse among high-risk, high-need offenders."
Abstract
Enhancement grants were awarded to adult drug courts that had been operating for at least 1 year and desired to expand their target population and enhance court operations, court services, and offender services. The data presented in this report were entered into the Performance Measurement Tool (PMT) for April-June 2012 for enhancement grants awarded in fiscal years 2008-2011. The PMT indicates that the demographic profile across screened candidates, eligible candidates, and admitted participants was consistent, with one exception. The percentage of candidates of unknown race/ethnicity was high (19 percent) at initial screening. This suggests that grantees may be having a difficult time tracking this information. For this quarter, 54 percent of drug court participants who exited the drug court program graduated successfully, which exceeded BJA's target graduation rate of 48 percent; however, for participants in tribal areas the completion rate was low (18 percent). The PMT also indicated that drug court participants were almost as equally likely to unsuccessfully exit the program in the first 3 months of participation as they were in the later stages of the program (10 or more months). In addition, the PMT showed that a large percentage of reasons for ineligibility were classified as "other." BJA has revised this measure so that the "other" category can be examined in more detail in future reports. 5 tables and 1 figure