Individual project – Drug Law Strategies – Unit 5

Drug courts are supervised judicial entities that specifically deal with nonviolent drug offenses. The purpose of these courts is to accommodate recovery and restoration of the offenders to make them productive members of society.

Assignment Guidelines

Address the following in 6–10 pages:

• What are the specific goals of drug courts? Explain.
• When is a person tried at a drug court? Explain.
• Find a drug court in a municipality near you.
  • What types of agencies are involved in this drug court? Explain
    • What is the reason for each of the types of agency involvement? Explain.
  • What methods and techniques does this drug court use for supervision, treatment, and graduation? Explain.
  • What specific types of offenses seem to be most common in this court? Explain.
  • What special programs are in place to ensure the success of this court? Explain in detail.
• Are drug courts effective? Use research to support your response.
• Be sure to reference all sources using APA style.
• Content/60% (21 points each)
• Organization/15% (21 points)
  
• APA Formatting/10% (14 points)
  
• Verbatim Text/5% (7 points)
  
• Mechanics/10% (14 points)
  

Answer preview

With the major change in the social, economic, and political needs, the judicial systems are focusing on adopting new management systems that will help meet the judicial needs, reduce wrong incarcerations, and expand the system to ensure the restoration of the offenders on the society. One way that the US judicial system has adopted is by establishing the drug courts. Wolfe, Guydish, Woods, and Tajima (2004) outline that the drug courts in the USA were established to address the drug problem in the country. Trafficking illegal drugs in the United States has been a long-standing problem for US society. Indeed, the problem of drug abuse and trafficking became more prominent between the 1960s and 1960s (Wolfe et al.2004). By the

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