Abstract
This presentation investigates the factors enhancing the success of drug courts through an empirical evaluation of drug court?s effects on desistance, focusing on three key criminological theories: deterrence theory, procedural justice theory, and life-course theory. Using a quasi-experimental sample of 1781 individuals across 23 courts and 6 comparison jurisdictions in 8 states, the presentation employs multiple structural equation modeling and path analysis to determine and contrast the effects of official supervision and sanctions, procedural justice, and substance abuse treatment on drug court participants and their efficacy in reducing substance abuse. The paper uses principal component analysis to indicate the most critical factors that facilitate compliance from drug court participants; this approach is intended to link criminological theory to practice, as well as to offer guidance on where efforts should be concentrated in the design of public policy.
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