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"An Honest Chance": Perspectives of Drug Court Participants: Findings from Focus Groups in Brooklyn, Miami, Seattle, Las Vegas, Portland, and San Bernardino

Publication year: 2001 | Cataloged on: Oct. 31, 2006
ANNOTATION: The observations of participants from six U.S. drug courts are reported. An executive summary and the following 11 sections comprise this document: the need for participants' perspectives; drug histories and motivation for entering drug court; drug and crime problems in participants' residential neighborhoods; general understanding of drug court; the courtroom experience; peers' commitment to treatment; the treatment experience; drug use and crime by participants during treatment; court responses to participants' progress; participant recommendations for improving drug courts; and policy implications of drug court participant perspectives.
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