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This list of publications has
been compiled in order to provide resources on best or promising practices for 5
types of problem-solving courts: drug courts (including juvenile and family drug
courts), community courts, domestic violence courts, teen or youth courts, and
mental health courts. General
information on problem-solving courts is also provided.
This list is not to be interpreted as an endorsement of any particular
program or practice by the NCSC, but rather as a resource for the readers to
examine and determine its usefulness for their own purposes.
Online
Resources:
Supporting
the Drug Court Process: What You Need To Know for Effective Decision-Making and
Program Evaluation.
Bureau of Justice Assistance Monograph (February 2003).
Presents a functional overview of the drug court and the nature of the
questions and answers that together form the foundation for sound
decision-making for the court’s key activities. Provides advice on the
selection and acquisition of computer systems for drug courts, as well as an
overview of ongoing and pertinent issues associated with these systems.
Juvenile
Drug Courts: Strategies in Practice.
Bureau of Justice Assistance (February 2003). Offers 16
strategies or recommendations for a juvenile drug court that are meant to be
adapted and implemented to the unique characteristics of each court and the
community it serves. These strategies create a framework for a juvenile drug
court.
Fox,
Aubrey and Greg Berman. "Going
to Scale: A Conversation About the Future of Drug Courts" Court
Review (Fall 2002). An analysis of
drug court efforts to move into the mainstream of court operations across the
country.
Goldkamp, John S., Michael D.
White and Jennifer B. Robinson. An
Honest Chance: Perspectives on Drug Courts.
Crime and Justice Research Institute (April 2002).
This report presents findings from focus group discussions with
participants in six American drug courts, designed to elicit participant views
on the drug court program and various aspects of their drug court experiences.
Participant comments indicated that the drug courts visited were indeed
successful and included recommendations to improve the effectiveness of drug
court programs.
Turner, Susan et al.
National Evaluation of
14 Drug Courts. National
Institute of Justice (September 2001). This
evaluation revealed that these 14 drug court programs contained many of the
crucial elements of effective programs but experienced varying degrees of
success. Information came from
interviews with staff involved in the programs, observations, visits to drug
treatment programs, reviews of the case files and other records, reviews of
criminal justice records, and analyses of existing process and outcome
evaluations.
Peyton,
Elizabeth A. and Robert Gossweiler. Treatment
Services in Adult Drug Courts: Report on the 1999 National Drug Court Treatment
Survey. Bureau of Justice
Assistance (2001). This report presents the findings and the implications of a
1999 survey to determine substance abuse treatment services and other treatment
services currently used by adult drug courts.
It also identifies significant issues faced by adult drug courts in
obtaining and delivering high-quality comprehensive treatment services and
presents an overview of recommended treatment practices.
Juvenile
Drug Court Programs.
JAIGB Bulletin (May 2001). Describes
key elements to juvenile drug court programs.
Promising
Practices and Strategies to Reduce Alcohol and Substance Abuse Among American
Indians and Alaska Natives
(2000) Nine case studies presenting three types of policy initiatives (including
drug court) designed to reduce substance abuse: efforts that control the
availability of drugs and alcohol within a tribal jurisdiction; educational and
treatment efforts; and efforts that reduce the social and environmental factors
that increase the risk of harm to the individual and the community.
Gebelein, Richard S.
The Rebirth of
Rehabilitation: Promise and Perils of Drug Courts.
National Institute of Justice Sentencing and Corrections
Issues for the 21st Century, no. 6 (May 2000).
Marlowe, Douglas B.
Effective Use of
Sanctions in Drug Courts: Lessons From Behavioral Research. National
Drug Court Institute Review, vol. 2, no. 1. (1999): 11-29.
Harrell, Adelle and Alice
Goodman. Review
of Specialized Family Drug Courts: Key
Issues Handling Child Abuse and Neglect Cases.
The Urban Institute (February 1999).
Peters,
Roger H. and Elizabeth Peyton. Guideline
for Drug Courts on Screening and Assessment. Bureau of Justice
Assistance (1998). Guidelines to
help drug courts develop effective policies, procedures and techniques for
screening and assessing treatment needs of drug court participants.
Drug Courts Program Office. Looking
at a Decade of Drug Courts. Washington, DC: U.S. Department of Justice,
Office of Justice Programs, Drug Court Program Office (1998).
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Cooper,
Caroline S. and Shanie Bartlett. Juvenile
and Family Drug Courts: Profile of Program Characteristics and Implementation
Issues. Bureau of Justice
Assistance (1998). This report
provides a synopsis of the "state of the art" of juvenile and family
drug court activity, based on responses to a survey of juvenile and family drug
courts that were operating as of January 1998.
Criteria for assessing program effectiveness
are also discussed.
Defining
Drug Courts: The Key Components.
The Drug Courts Program Office, Office of Justice Programs, United States
Department of Justice (January 1997).
Wilmington
Drug Court Offers Juveniles Alternative to Prosecution Success with Substance
Abuse Treatment Leads to Expansion of Program.
United States Conference of Mayors Best Practices Database (1996).
Further information on Drug
Courts can be found in the NCSC Court Information Database.
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Resources:
Feinblatt, John, Greg Berman
and Aubrey Fox. “Institutionalizing
Innovation: The New York Drug Court Story. " Fordham Urban Law Journal, vol. 28. (2000): 277.
An analysis of New York's new statewide drug treatment initiative seeking
full-scale reform of the courts.
Kimbrough, Robin J. “Treating
Juvenile Substance Abuse: The Promise of Juvenile Drug Courts.” Juvenile
Justice, 5:2 (1998): 11.
Koons, Judith E. Sanctions
in Juvenile Drug Court: A Continuum of Knots and Lessons. Tallahassee:
Supreme Court of Florida, Office of the State Courts Administrator (1996).
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Online
Resources:
Feinblatt, John, Greg Berman,
and Michelle Sviridnoff. Neighborhood
Justice: Lessons Learned from the Midtown Community Court.
Center for Court Innovation (2002).
Goldenkamp, John.
Developing
an Evaluation Plan for Community Courts: Assessing the Hartford Community Court
Model. Bureau
of Justice Assistance (July 2001). This monograph assesses the Hartford
Community Court model for developing an evaluation plan for community courts.
Sviridnoff, Michelle, David
Rottman, and Rob Weidner. Dispensing
Justice Locally: The Impacts, Cost and Benefit of the Midtown Community Court.
Harwood Publishers (2000).
Lee, Eric.
Community
Courts: An Evolving Model. Bureau
of Justice Assistance, U.S. Department of Justice (October 2000).
Profiles of community courts around the country.
Overcoming
Obstacles to Community Courts: A Summary of Workshop Proceedings.
Bureau of Justice Assistance, U.S. Department of Justice (November 1998).
Representatives of eight cities discuss how they have adapted the
community court model to their neighborhoods' unique needs.
For
further information on community courts as well as court and community
collaboration see: NCSC’s
Response to State Court Interest in Court and Community Collaboration.
National Center for State Courts, Research Services (2002).
These web pages provide links to numerous publications such as:
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Resources:
Wolf, Robert Victor. "New
Strategies for an Old Profession: A Court and a Community Combat a Streetwalking
Epidemic." The
Justice System Journal, vol. 22, No. 3 (2001).
An overview of successful approaches taken by the Midtown Community Court
to combat street prostitution.
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Evaluation of the Jefferson County Domestic Violence Unit.
Institute for Law and Justice (August 1999).
Further information on domestic
violence courts can be found in the NCSC Court Information Database. See
especially the Family
Violence Resource Guide.
Print
Resources:
Newmark, Lisa, Mike Rempel,
Kelly Diffily, and Kamala Mallik Kane. Specialized
Felony Domestic Violence Courts: Lessons on Implementation and Impacts from the
Kings County Experience. Washington,
DC: Urban Institute (October 2001).
Tsai, B.
The Trend Toward Specialized Domestic Violence Courts: Improvements on
an Effective Intervention.” Fordham Law Review, vol. 68 (2000): 1297.
Levey, Lynn S., Martha Wade
Steketee, and Susan Keilitz. Lessons Learned in Implementing an Integrated
Domestic Violence Court: The District of Columbia Experience. Williamsburg,
VA: National Center for State Courts (July 30, 2000).
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“Quincy Court: Mixed
Results from a Model Court.” Domestic
Violence Prevention (July 1999): 4.
Paisner, Susan R. “A
Court Grows in Brooklyn: Dedicated Domestic Violence Court Serves as National
Model.” Domestic Violence Prevention, vol. 5, no. 9 (September 1999).
Buzawa, Eve, Gerald
Hotalig, and Andrew Klein. “The Response to Domestic Violence in a Model
Court: Some Initial Findings and Implications.” Behavioral Sciences and
the Law, vol. 16 (1998): 185.
Online
Resources:
Butts, Jeffrey A., Janeen Buck,
and Mark B. Coggeshall. The
Impact of Teen Courts on Young Offenders.
The Urban Institute (April 2002)
Anderson, David C. Kids,
Courts and Communities: Lessons from the Red Hook Youth Court.
Center for Court Innovation.
Center for Court Innovation (1999).
A comprehensive look at a youth court in Brooklyn, including program
structure, lessons learned, challenges and snapshots of real court cases.
Tools
to Evaluate and Manage Youth Courts.
TYC NYS Forum for Information Resource Management.
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Online
Resources:
Goldkamp,
John S. and Cheryl Irons-Guynn. “Emerging Judicial Strategies for the Mentally Ill in the
Criminal Caseload: Mental Health Courts in Fort Lauderdale, Seattle, San
Bernardino and Anchorage,”
Bureau of Justice Assistance, Office of Justice Programs (April 2000).
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Trupin,
Eric, Henry Richards, David M. Wertheimer, and Carole Brushi.
Seattle
Municipal Court Mental Health Court: Evaluation Report.
City of Seattle. (September
5, 2001)
The
Role of Mental Health Courts in System Reform.
Brazelon Center for Mental Health Law.
For
further information on mental health courts, see the Mental
Health Resource Guide
from the NCSC Court Information Database.
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Resources:
“The
Court Coordinated Resources Project—Mental Health Court in Alaska.”
Alaska Justice Forum, vol. 18, no. 4 (Winter 2002).
This issue includes the following articles:
“Evaluating the Anchorage Mental Health Court,” “Alaska Therapeutic
Court Projects,” and “Corrections and the Mentally Ill.”
Denckla,
Derek and Greg Berman. Rethinking
the Revolving Door: A Look at Mental Illness in the Courts.
NY: Center for Court Innovation (2001).
Online
Resources:
"Strategies
for Court Collaboration With Service Communities" Bureau of Justice
Assistance Program Brief (November 2002). This
brief describes a collaborative effort between treatment service providers and
courts to address the underlying issues faced by individuals appearing in court.
The brief reviews five service goals on which to build problem-solving programs
and nine components of effective service coordination.
Problem
Solving Courts: A Brief Primer.
Center for Court Innovation (2001).
The history of problem-solving courts is outlined along with a basic set
of problem-solving principles.
Treatment
Alternatives in the Criminal Court: A Process Evaluation of the Bronx County
Drug Court.
Vera Institute of Justice (2001). Reports
on the implementation and evaluation of the Bronx Treatment Court in its first
18 months of operation.
For further information on
problem-solving courts, see Specialized
and Problem-Solving
Courts in the NCSC Court Information Database.
Print
Resources:
Casey, Pamela, Hillery Efkeman,
Dawn Rubio, Anne E. Skove, and Jeanne Tyler. Report on National Status of
Promising Practices in Problem Solving Courts.
Denver CO: National Center for State Courts (2002).
KF8759 .R47 2002
"Problem-Solving Courts."
The Judges' Journal, vol. 41, no. 1 (Winter 2002). A special issue of The
Judge's Journal. Articles chronicle
the development of problem-solving courts from various perspectives - judge,
prosecutor and defense attorney. Articles
also include a profile of New York State Chief Judge Judith S. Kaye, an overview
of the Red Hook (Brooklyn, N.Y.) Community Justice Center, a discussion of the
applicability of the drug-court model to mental health courts and the
proliferation nationwide of youth courts.
Feinblatt, John, Greg Berman
and Derek Denckla. "Judicial Innovation at the Crossroads: A Look at
Problem-Solving Courts." The
Court Manager, vol. 15, no. 3 (2000).
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