Drug Courts: Multi Site Evaluation

This is from the Center for Court Innovation's website.  They report on a National Institute of Justice funded project designed to evaluate the effectiveness of drug courts at reducing substance abuse and crime. According to the report:

NEW YORK, N.Y., JUNE, 2011--Researchers at the Urban Institute, the Center for Court Innovation, and RTI International have completed one of the most ambitious studies of drug courts to date. Funded by the National Institute of Justice, the five-year multi-site study compared participants in 23 drug courts in seven states to similar defendants who went through conventional case processing. The results offer vivid evidence that drug courts are effective at reducing both substance abuse and crime.