Long term effects of drug court participation: evidence from a 15-year follow-up of a randomized controlled trial

Kearley, Brook W.; Gottfredson, Denise C.

doi:10.1007/s11292-019-09382-1

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“…The study, however, only included one adult drug treatment court (Baltimore City Court) and may not be generalizable. Further, extensions of this research found conflicting results regarding long-term recidivism rates and other outcomes (Kearley et al 2019 found no effect on drug overdose mortality; Mackin et al 2009 found no effect on long-term recidivism), though recent extensions have shown 15-year reductions in arrests, charges, and convictions (Kearley & Gottfredson 2020).…”

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Drug Treatment Courts and Community-Level Crime: A Stacked Event Study Analysis

Hibbard

2022

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Objectives: Explore the extent to which adult drug treatment courts (ADCs) affect community-level crime, demonstrate the application of stacked event study estimation in quasi-experimental criminology research, and introduce a crime data optimization strategy. Methods: Static and dynamic fixed effects estimation were performed on a longitudinal dataset constructed to address potential issues of bias, which included crime data linked to a unique list of ADCs and relevant control variables, resulting in over 52,000 county-year observations between 1990 and 2018. Results: Crime reduction estimates range from 2% property index to a violent index drop of 6%. Counterfactual analysis indicates over 417,000 fewer crimes within this sample between 1995 and 2013 (which accounts for the stack design). Conclusions: Considering their limited footprint, ADCs have an outsized effect on crime alluding to complex interactions between participants and communities. Though further investigation is needed, expanding these programs would likely continue to improve public safety.

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confidence: 86%

Drug Treatment Courts and Community-Level Crime: A Stacked Event Study Analysis

Hibbard

2022

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“…Meta-analyses and multisite studies conducted within the past decade determined that adult drug courts significantly reduced criminal recidivism-typically measured by re-arrest rates over 2-3 years-by an average of approximately 12-32%, with the best drug courts reducing recidivism by 50-85% (Carey et al, 2012;Mitchell et al, 2012;Rossman et al, 2011). Reductions in recidivism have been shown to last for at least 3 years after program entry (Mitchell et al, 2012) and in two studies the effects lasted at least 15 years (Finigan et al, 2007;Kearley & Gottfredson, 2019). The Multisite Adult Drug Court Evaluation (MADCE), a national study of 23 adult drug courts, found that drug courts also significantly reduced illicit drug and alcohol use, improved participants' family relationships, reduced family conflict, and increased participants' access to needed financial and social services (Rossman et al, 2011).…”

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Drug Courts: The Good, the Bad, and the Misunderstood

Marlowe

2021

Handbook of Issues in Criminal Justice Reform in the United States

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Drug courts provide judicially supervised substance use treatment and other indicated services in lieu of criminal prosecution or incarceration. The Good News: Drug courts significantly reduce criminal recidivism and illicit substance use, improve the psychosocial functioning of persons involved in the justice system, and produce positive cost benefits for taxpayers. Evidence has identified the optimal target population for drug courts and a range of best practices associated with better outcomes. The Bad News: Some drug courts violate core tenets of the model by targeting the wrong participants, barring use of medication-assisted treatment, paying insufficient attention to racial and ethnic disparities, and overusing jail sanctions. Misunderstood Lessons: Current policy proposals for justice reform ignore the lessons of 30 years of research on drug courts and are unlikely to achieve their intended aims of enhancing public health and safety.

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“…As another example, in the Baltimore Drug Treatment Court project, the initial one-year follow-up showed that fewer drug court offenders than control offenders were rearrested (48% compared with 64%; Gottfredson & Exum, 2002). The 15-year follow-up then showed that drug court offenders had 32% fewer arrests than control offenders (using negative binomial models; see Kearley & Gottfredson, 2020).…”

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Long-Term Follow-Ups of Criminological Experiments

Farrington

2021

Victims & Offenders

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Ed Latessa's career was devoted to using evidence-based interventions to improve the lives of offenders. This article honors Ed by contributing to this line of inquiry. The main aim is to review criminological experiments with offending outcomes and a follow-up period of at least 10 years. Twenty major experiments are summarized, with intervention targets ranging from mothers in pregnancy to adult offenders. Follow-up periods ranged from 10 to 72 years. Effects of interventions were generally desirable and often persisted, but sometimes were undesirable and increased or decreased over time. In addition to offending, many other outcomes were often measured at different ages, and subgroup analyses were useful in identifying categories of participants associated with more or less desirable effects. It is concluded that more long-term follow-ups of criminological experiments should be carried out, preferably including cost-benefit analyses and measuring the prevalence, frequency, and seriousness of offending in different age ranges.

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Long term effects of drug court participation: evidence from a 15-year follow-up of a randomized controlled trial

Cited by 20 publications

References 118 publications

Drug Treatment Courts and Community-Level Crime: A Stacked Event Study Analysis

Drug Treatment Courts and Community-Level Crime: A Stacked Event Study Analysis

Drug Courts: The Good, the Bad, and the Misunderstood

Long-Term Follow-Ups of Criminological Experiments

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