Drug treatment courts and community-level crime

IF 3.3 1区社会学 Q1 CRIMINOLOGY & PENOLOGY

Journal of Criminal Justice Pub Date : 2024-09-01 DOI:10.1016/j.jcrimjus.2024.102267

Patrick F. Hibbard, Jason E. Chapman

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Abstract

Research has recognized Adult Drug Treatment Courts (DTCs) as benefitting participants, with a wide body of research demonstrating lower levels of recidivism and drug use. A budding community-level body of research, however, has returned mixed results, some studies showing increases in arrests and crime relative to DTC initiation. Since DTCs cover over three-fourths of the US population, results showing such unintended consequences must be validated and rectified if held. This study estimated effects for DTCs for community-level crime effects from 1990 to 2018 using a stacked event study identification strategy. Most results indicated no significant effects. However, for population groups between 10,000 and 50,000, DTCs were associated with reductions in some crime categories. Violent index offenses offered the most robust results, and there was a small increase in non-index crimes in communities with populations between 50,000 and 100,000.

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戒毒治疗法庭和社区一级的犯罪

研究表明，成人戒毒法庭（DTCs）对参与者大有裨益，大量研究表明，成人戒毒法庭的累犯率和吸毒率都有所下降。然而，新近开展的社区层面的研究结果喜忧参半，一些研究显示，与戒毒治疗中心的启动相比，逮捕率和犯罪率有所上升。由于 DTC 覆盖了超过四分之三的美国人口，因此必须对显示出这种意外后果的结果进行验证和纠正。本研究采用叠加事件研究识别策略，估算了 1990 年至 2018 年 DTC 对社区层面犯罪的影响。大多数结果表明没有明显影响。然而，对于 10,000 到 50,000 之间的人口群体，DTC 与某些犯罪类别的减少有关。暴力指数犯罪提供了最有力的结果，而在人口在 5 万到 10 万之间的社区，非指数犯罪有小幅增加。

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Journal of Criminal Justice CRIMINOLOGY & PENOLOGY-

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6.90

自引率

9.10%

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审稿时长

23 days

期刊介绍： The Journal of Criminal Justice is an international journal intended to fill the present need for the dissemination of new information, ideas and methods, to both practitioners and academicians in the criminal justice area. The Journal is concerned with all aspects of the criminal justice system in terms of their relationships to each other. Although materials are presented relating to crime and the individual elements of the criminal justice system, the emphasis of the Journal is to tie together the functioning of these elements and to illustrate the effects of their interactions. Articles that reflect the application of new disciplines or analytical methodologies to the problems of criminal justice are of special interest. Since the purpose of the Journal is to provide a forum for the dissemination of new ideas, new information, and the application of new methods to the problems and functions of the criminal justice system, the Journal emphasizes innovation and creative thought of the highest quality.