The drug treatment court as a form of restorative justice

Fulkerson, Andrew

doi:10.1080/10282580903105772

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“…These findings suggest that the drug court program is effective because it gives offenders an opportunity to repair harm to the community, family, and friends, and to accept accountability for their behavior. These findings further provide strong evidence that drug court, even for those who fail to complete the program, falls within the realm of restorative justice (Fulkerson, 2009). The positive impact the program has regarding repairing family relationships could be considered as a source of strengthening the program by drawing on family as a resource for the drug court program, in general, and the drug court participants, in particular.…”

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confidence: 72%

Understanding Success and Nonsuccess in the Drug Court

Fulkerson

Keena

O’Brien

2012

Int J Offender Ther Comp Criminol

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The drug court was developed as a response to the ineffectiveness of the traditional criminal justice response to addiction. It has grown from 1 Miami court in 1989 to more than 2,100 drug court programs across the United States in 2011. The drug court has been described as a restorative or community justice intervention that can benefit the offender, direct and indirect victims, and the community as a whole through its combination of treatment, intensive supervision, and regular court appearances. Although the number of qualitative drug court studies has increased in recent years, there are few studies that compare those who successfully complete the drug court program with those who do not complete. This article is a qualitative study of drug court participants in an Arkansas drug court program. The article compares and contrasts the perceptions of those graduated from the program with those who were terminated from the program.

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Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 72%

Understanding Success and Nonsuccess in the Drug Court

Fulkerson

Keena

O’Brien

2012

Int J Offender Ther Comp Criminol

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“…A contemporary response to the complexity and cost of substance-related disorders is the development of the drug court. The first drug court was created in Florida in 1989 [75] as there was growing awareness of the widespread presence of substance abusing offenders in the criminal justice system. As testimony to the appeal of the drug court concept, one may note that National institute of Justice reported that there were more than 3400 drug courts in the United States by the middle of 2014.…”

Section: Resultsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Substance Abuse Therapeutics

Mills¹

2016

Recent Advances in Drug Addiction Research and Clinical Applications

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This chapter provides a broad overview of therapies for substance abuse. These therapies are understood in the context of the history of drug use in the United States and factors that influenced the expansion and regulation of substance use. This is followed by a discussion of how the complexity of these factors was associated with difficulties in understanding substance misuse and created challenges to the creation of effective treatment systems. The chapter reviews the moral and disease models of addiction before discussing the diagnosis of substance-related disorders. The chapter describes major treatment approaches and their efficacy.

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“…Drug treatment courts emerged as an intended problem-solving initiative during the late 1980s, based in large part on the increase of drug cases in the courts. Fulkerson (2009) identifies an underlying critique as a basis for the emergence of DTCs, and especially for establishing the first drug-treatment court in 1989, in Miami, Florida: "Drug offenders were not being treated for their addiction and were simply 'recycling' through the system" (254). According to the National Institute of Justice, more than 2,800 drug courts are now operative throughout the United States.…”

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“…The judge is the clearly visible authority through which the program operates. (Kassebaum and Okamoto, 2001, 93-94; see also Miethe, Lu, and Reese, 2000) According to Fulkerson (2009), it is essential that the DTC judge be supportive of the "disease model [which] recognizes that addiction is a chronic condition, which will often manifest itself through relapses." (255) Such recognition is especially necessary because the judge determines the degree to which the offender is responsibly making progress.…”

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confidence: 99%