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Article: Do drug courts work? Getting inside the drug court black box
- Article from:
- Journal of Drug Issues
- Article date:
- January 1, 2001
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CopyrightCopyright Journal of Drug Issues Winter 2001. Provided by ProQuest LLC. (Hide copyright information)
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This article argues that evaluation of drug courts will benefit not only from an organizing typology (Goldkamp, 1999a, 2000) that focuses research on the critical structural elements of the drug court model but also from an understanding of how drug courts are thought to deliver their impact. In
developing a causal model of drug court impact, the analysis separates assessment of impact into two investigations: whether drug courts "work" and how they work. Data from the ongoing NIJsupported evaluation of the Portland and Las Vegas drug courts are analyzed to answer the comparative question of whether there is an impact (and of what sort) and then to move consideration of the internal ...