A practical guide for drug court administrators and staff reporting how they can use data productively to monitor their operations, measure key performance indicators, identify areas of success, and bring to light problem areas or ways to improve.
A plain-language discussion written either for practitioners or for researchers new to the drug court field of the key methodological questions that must be addressed in any recidivism analysis.
Stephen V. Manley is a Superior Court judge in Santa Clara County. He has served on the bench for over 25 years. He was a founder of the Drug Treatment Court in Santa Clara County as well as the Santa Clara County Mental Health Treatment Court. In January 2005 he spoke with the Center for Court Innovation’s Carolyn Turgeon about his work.
Stephen Manley is a Superior Court judge in Santa Clara County. He has served on the bench for over 25 years. He was a founder of the Drug Treatment Court in Santa Clara County as well as the Santa Clara County Mental Health Treatment Court. In January 2005 he spoke with the Center for Court Innovation’s Carolyn Turgeon about his work.
Judge Nicolette Pach developed and presided over New York State's first Family Treatment Court, which began in 1997 in Suffolk County. Currently, she is a Judicial Fellow for the National Drug Court Institute, a consultant to the National Center on Substance Abuse and Child Welfare and provides technical assistance to jurisdictions grappling with the difficult issues of collaboration with the courts.
Judge Matthew J. D'Emic presides over the Brooklyn Mental Health Court, which works with approximately 100 felony and misdemeanor defendants each year. D’Emic is a graduate of Fordham University and Brooklyn Law School. In June 2004, Carolyn Turgeon from the Center for Court Innovation sat down to talk with D’Emic about the court’s first two years.
Yvonne Smith Segars was a member of the founding team of the Essex County Drug Court, which opened in May 1997, and was sworn into office as the New Jersey Public Defender in 2002. Here she talks about the development of drug courts in New Jersey and about the defense bar’s attitudes towards problem-solving courts.
The tribal drug court movement has grown quickly; today there are about 50 tribal drug courts in the United States. Chico Gallegos, associate director of the Native American Alliance Foundation, talks here about the differences between state and tribal drug courts, as well as the challenges ahead.
Gerianne Abriano has been Bureau Chief for the Kings County District Attorney's office at the Red Hook Community Justice Center in Brooklyn, New York, since March of 2001 and, before that, spent two years as a prosecutor in the Brooklyn Treatment Court. Abriano sat down with the Center for Court Innovation's Carolyn Turgeon to talk about her experiences.
Among his many activities, Dr. Fred C. Osher advises state governments on how best to address mental health issues in the criminal justice system. Here he talks about the pros and cons of mental health courts.
