Improving Drug Courts - A Preliminary Study

• Authors: James J Chriss , Miyuki F Tedor

Abstracts

EN

Since the early 1980s, specialized problem-solving courts known as drug courts emerged in the United States as a response to the backlog of drug and alcohol-related cases plaguing the U.S. criminal justice system. In a few decades, with the seeming success of the drug court in helping AOD defendants achieve sobriety while reducing recidivism, the drug court model has achieved international prominence as well. This paper discusses a pilot study which seeks to analyze the feasibility of connecting a website, drughelp.care, developed at the host institution of the co-authors, to the everyday operations of local drug courts. Talcott Parsons’ AGIL schema is utilized as a conceptual template for organizing our thinking about how the website could improve services to administrators and clients according to the unique functional elements of the drug court.

Keywords

EN

drug courts; functionalism; Talcott Parsons; compassion; coercion; AGIL; criminal justice system; psy-complex

• Publisher: Academicus. International Scientific Journal publishing house
• Journal: Academicus. International Scientific Journal
• Year: 2023
• Volume: 14
• Issue: 28
• Pages: 89-109

Dates

published

2023

Contributors

author

James J Chriss

• Cleveland State University, USA

• https://orcid.org/0000000267267290

author

Miyuki F Tedor

• Cleveland State University, USA

• https://orcid.org/0000000171158575

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Identifiers

DOI

10.7336/academicus.2023.28.05

Biblioteka Nauki

2232462