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Adult Drug Courts: Brief Overview & Assessments
Joan B Calahan
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Description for Adult Drug Courts: Brief Overview & Assessments
Paperback. Editor(s): Calahan, Joan B. Num Pages: 99 pages. BIC Classification: JKV; MMZR. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 230 x 152 x 7. Weight in Grams: 182.
Drug court programs were established beginning in the late 1980s as a local response to increasing numbers of drug-related cases and expanding jail and prison populations nationwide. A drug court is a specialized court-based program that targets criminal offenders who have alcohol and other drug addiction and dependency problems. Drug courts have implemented deferred prosecution or post-adjudication case-processing approaches, or have blended both in their organizational structures. In drug courts, using deferred prosecution, defendants waive rights to a trial and enter a treatment program shortly after being charged; those who subsequently fail to complete the treatment program have their charges ... Read more
Drug court programs were established beginning in the late 1980s as a local response to increasing numbers of drug-related cases and expanding jail and prison populations nationwide. A drug court is a specialized court-based program that targets criminal offenders who have alcohol and other drug addiction and dependency problems. Drug courts have implemented deferred prosecution or post-adjudication case-processing approaches, or have blended both in their organizational structures. In drug courts, using deferred prosecution, defendants waive rights to a trial and enter a treatment program shortly after being charged; those who subsequently fail to complete the treatment program have their charges ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Nova Science Publishers Inc United States
Number of pages
99
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Condition
New
Number of Pages
99
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9781624171635
SKU
V9781624171635
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