Adult Drug Court

Australia

NSW

• New South Wales.  Adult Drug Court

Legislation

• Drug Court Act 1998 No 150
• Drug Court Amendment Act 1999 No 47
• Drug Court Amendment Act 2002 No 93
• Drug Court Regulations 1999

Evaluation

• New South Wales Drug Court Evaluation: Cost-effectiveness 2002. (965Kb pdf file)
• New South Wales Drug Court Evaluation: Health, Well-being and Participant Satisfaction 2002. (747Kb pdf file)
• New South Wales Drug Court Evaluation: A Process Evaluation 2002. (279Kb pdf file)
• New South Wales Drug Court Evaluation: Interim Report on Health and Well-Being of Participants
  A report on this initiative which is aimed at diverting drug-using offenders from the traditional criminal justice system. The focus of this bulletin is to present preliminary findings from the evaluation study examining the well-being of NSW Drug Court participants and their satifaction with the program. By Karen Freeman. February 2001. (292Kb pdf file)
• New South Wales Drug Court Evaluation: Program & Participant Profiles
  By Karen Freeman, Ruth Lawrence Karski and Peter Doak. April 2000. (135Kb pdf file)
• New South Wales Drug Court: Monitoring Report
  This report examines the first seventeen months of the Drug Court’s operation. Information has been prepared by Suzanne Briscoe and Christine Coumarelos. December 2000. (965Kb pdf file)

Other

• NSW Police: Adult Drug Court
• Evaluating Australia's first drug court : research challenges
  Paper presented at: 'Evaluation in Crime and Justice : Trends and Methods', Canberra, March 2003
• Conference: Drugs, Rehabilitation and the Criminal Justice System. February 2002

Queensland

• Introduction to the Drug Court
• Taking part in the Drug Court
• Final report on the South-east Queensland Drug Court pilot
  By John J Costanzo. July 2003
• Final report on the South East Queensland Drug Court
  By Toni Makkai and Keenan Veraar, July 2003.
• Final report on the North Queensland Drug Court
  This report presents the findings of an evaluation of the implementation, operation and outcomes of the North Queensland Drug Court pilot program for 26 months from its inception in 2002. 2005

South Australia

• South Australia Drug Court

Victoria

• Drug Court of Victoria
• Information on the Drug Court of Victoria

Western Australia

• Western Australia Drug Court
• Drug Court Evaluation

Other

• Drug courts : reducing drug-related crime. June 2004

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International

Canada

• Toronto Drug Treatment Court
• Drug Treatment Court of Vancouver

England

• Courts brochure: Drug misuse in the UK
  Information about drug misuse, designed for magistrates. 

Scotland

• Scottish Drug Courts In Action : The First Six Months
  Findings from the Glasgow and Fife Drug Couts. 2003
• Establishing Drug Courts in Scotland: Early Experiences of the Pilot Drug Courts in Glasgow and Fife
  Scotland's first Drug Court was established in Glasgow Sheriff Court in October 2001 and a second pilot Drug Court was established in Fife in August 2002, making its first Order on 9th September 2002. The Fife Drug Court sits in Dunfermline and Kirkcaldy Sheriff Courts. This report details the early experiences of the two drug courts. 2003

USA

• Painting the current picture: a national report card on drug courts and other problem solving court programs in the United States
  This report, intended to be published twice a year, presents information regarding the impact of drug courts. It also provides an aggregate summary of survey results from each state
  detailing operational problem solving court programs in the United States. May 2004
• An honest chance : perspectives on drug courts
  Findings from drug court participants in Brooklyn, Los Vegas, Miami, Portland, San Bernadino and Seattle. April 2002
• National Drug Court Institute
  The mission of this organization is to promote education, research, and scholarship for drug courts and other court-based intervention programs.

Other

• International Experience of Drug Courts. 2001
• UNODC and Drug Treatment Courts ("Drug Courts")

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