Collaboration: A Mechanism of Drug Court Model Adherence

Drug courts solve problems, namely, reducing drug use and recidivism. The current research attempts to answer the question of how to ensure program fidelity and therefore optimize the efficacy of drug courts. Justice professionals and scholars have recognized that there are multiple internal and ext...

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Published in:Journal of drug issues 2019-04, Vol.49 (2), p.253-278
Main Authors: Mei, Xiaohan, van Wormer, Jacqueline G., Lu, Ruibin, Abboud, Mia J., Lutze, Faith E.
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Alternative sentencing
Collaboration
Courts
Decision making
Drug abuse
Drug courts
Information dissemination
Justice
Recidivism
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Summary:Drug courts solve problems, namely, reducing drug use and recidivism. The current research attempts to answer the question of how to ensure program fidelity and therefore optimize the efficacy of drug courts. Justice professionals and scholars have recognized that there are multiple internal and external threats that could undermine the drug court operation. At this point, the mechanism(s) by which threaten factors affect drug court program fidelity has been neither theoretically modeled nor empirically tested. In the present study, using a national sample and the Structural Regression Analysis (SRA), we found collaboration and judicial decision making are the most important factors for maintaining drug court program fidelity. This is because collaboration and judicial decision making can mediate the threats and challenges from many quarters, including the lack of information sharing and evaluation, treatment, operational support, and community and political support.
ISSN:0022-0426
1945-1369
DOI:10.1177/0022042618821196